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West. Exp.
Ind. Rev.
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Sp. Am.
WWI
1920s
1930s
WWII
Cold War
Modern
100
After the Civil War, this group of people became sharecroppers.
What is Former African slaves or Freedman?
100
Gold and silver was discovered in the Black Hills and the US government forced Native Americans off their land onto this.
What is reservations?
100
One of the goals of labor unions.
What is improve working conditions?
100
One of the main reasons immigrants came to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is the chance for a better life?
100
American businessmen pushed to have Hawaii annexed because ____.
What is the use of Pearl Harbor to export cash crops?
100
The United States tried to remain neutral during WWI. Neutral means _____.
What is a country that doesn't join an alliance?
100
This groups culture influenced the Jazz Age.
What is the African American culture?
100
The stock market crash of 1929 was due to people doing this when stock prices were falling slowly.
What is sell their stocks?
100
The name for the 2 groups of countries who fought in WWII.
What is Allied & Axis Powers?
100
The goal of the Soviets and the US during the arms race.
What is have the most powerful weapons?
100
This President was impeached during his term of office because of the Watergate Scandal.
Who is President Nixon?
200
The system that developed in the South to keep the plantations operating after slavery ended.
What is Sharecropping?
200
This groups’ traditional way of life was greatly affected by the building of the railroad and the settling of the West
What is the Native Americans?
200
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller controlled the steel and oil industries in the early 1900s. There businesses were known as___.
What is a monopoly?
200
Immigrants who couldn't pass the medical checks were...
What is sent back to their home countries?
200
The major factor that led to the Spanish American War.
What is the USS Maine was destroyed by a huge explosion, killing 260 Americans?
200
The main cause of WWI.
What is the heir (Archduke Ferdinand) to Austria-Hungary was assassinated?
200
The Great Migration refers to a time in history when _____.
What is African Americans moved North for better job opportunities and less segregation?
200
People buying fewer goods and factory works losing their jobs are affect of this time period.
What is the Great Depression?
200
President Roosevelt entered WWII in 1941 instead of 1939 when Britain and France entered for this reason.
What is the US always tries to stay neutral?
200
This Senator told the US government that there were US citizen who were really working for the communists.
What is Senator McCarthy?
200
During a hostage crisis in this country, 60+ Americans were taken captive.
Where is Iran?
300
This organization was set up to help former slaves after the Civil War.
What is Freedman's Bureau?
300
This provided a faster method of travel, attracted new immigrant settlers, and provided a way to transport the agricultural products grown in the West to Eastern markets.
What is Transcontinental Railroad?
300
A person who begins their own business.
What is an entrepreneur?
300
Big businesses attracted many immigrants to large cities. The immigrants provided ___________, while business owners earned large profits.
What is cheap labor?
300
Exaggerated newspaper titles was commonly used to persuade the public's opinion. This is known as____.
What is yellow journalism?
300
The countries that made up the Allied Powers.
What is Great Britain, Russia, U.S.?
300
Prohibition was brought to an end by the ratification of the 21st Amendment. The amendment that banned the manufacturing, selling, and transporting of alcohol is _____.
What is the 18th amendment?
300
The program President Roosevelt creates designed to help elderly, disabled, and unemployed people.
What is Social Security Administration (or Act)?
300
This event caused President Roosevelt to ask Congress to declare war on Japan.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
300
The type of government that the USSR, North Korea, and North Vietnam have during the Cold War.
What is communism?
300
During the Persian Gulf War, an international force gathered for an offensive military action known as the _____.
What is Operation Desert Storm?
400
The three effects that the Reconstruction Amendments had on people of the time.
What is slavery was abolished, African Americans gained citizenship, all men given the right to vote?
400
The discovery of gold and silver in the boomtowns declined, causing most of the boomtowns to...
What is turn into ghost towns?
400
Progressive Reformers made changes to laws causing children to ________.
What is children had to go to school instead of work in factories?
400
In the early 1900s, cities became very overcrowded. Describe the effects of the population growth in the cities.
What is City governments became corrupt, City streets were extremely unsanitary, Many people got sick?
400
Travel was made easier by passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean as way of the ______.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
The countries that make up the Central Powers.
What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire?
400
This allowed people in the U.S. to communicate and share their ideas with a bigger audience affecting the American culture during the 1920's.
What is mass media?
400
My little brother is 18 years old and has no job. This program helped provide work for unemployed young men through work camps.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
400
Name 2 types of technology that were developed and used in WWII.
What is atomic bombs, bombers, computers, two-way radios, air craft carriers, anti-aircraft guns?
400
The goal that the US worked towards during the Cold War.
What is stop the spread of communism?
400
The attack on the US by terrorists from Al-Qaeda is remembered on this day of the year.
What is September 11th?
500
The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau. (Give at least 2)
What is support African Americans by giving them: education, healthcare, housing & food, jobs?
500
Technologies that helped pioneers turn the Great Plains into productive farmland. (Name 2 or more)
What is Windmill, Barbed Wire, Steel Plow, and Transcontinental Railroad?
500
A disadvantage of monopolies.
What is no competition for businesses?
500
Most immigrant in the midwest arrived from this country.
What is Germany?
500
An obstacle faced by the U.S. during the construction of the Panama Canal.
What is mosquitoes spreading disease?
500
During WWI, the people at home supported the war efforts by_____. (Give 2 areas of supports.)
What is victory gardens, buying war bonds, scrap metals, women took jobs in factories?
500
Segregation was enforced by law in the South because of these laws.
What are Black codes?
500
Worth 1,000 points!!!
FDR outlined a plan to get American out of the Great Depression. The name of this plan AND its 3 parts in order.
What is the New Deal: Relief, Recovery, Reform?
500
Name the 6 countries involved in WWII and their leaders. Last names are sufficient.
What is Italy: Mussolini, Germany:Hitler, US:FDR/Truman, Great Britain: Churchill, Japan:Tojo, Russia:Stalin?
500
The Soviets built a wall to divide East and West Berlin for this reason.
What is to keep East Berliners from escaping to freedom in West Berlin?
500
Because of the attacks on 9/11, several updates to airport security were added as well as this government organization. Name at least 1 update along with the organization name.
What is Department of Homeland Security?
What is body scanners, limited liquids for carry-ons, no food carried on, photo ID required, and more airport security w/ cameras included?