7th Grade

Gilded Age and Imperialism

100

Significance of Spindletop in Texas

oil was discovered here, making the oil industry grow

200

Business giant who started as a telegraph operator

Andrew Carnegie

300

How did Americans justify imperialism

Civilizing and spreading Christianity

400

What was the advantage of having the Philippines as a US territory?

strategic location near Asia

500

What was the Jones Act of 1917? 

granted citizenship to Puerto Ricans

Progressive Era

100

Which party looked for reforms such as silver coinage, nationalization of the railroads, and graduated income tax?

Populist Party

200

Upton Sinclair wrote which book that prompted the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed?

The Jungle

300

The 16th Amendment established the _____.

Federal Income Tax

400

President _____ paid attention to the Muckrakers.

Theodore Roosevelt

500

The right to vote for women was established with which amendment?

19

World War I

100

Unrestricted _____________________ led to Wilson asking congress to declare war on April 2nd, 1917.

Submarine warfare

200

How did total war change the workforce in the US?

1. African American men from the south found job opportunities in the northern factories

2. 
   

   • Women entered the workforce to help with the war effort

300

Explain why Austria-Hungary went to war with Serbia?

1. Control of Bosnia

400

1. Why did the US Congress decide not to join the League of Nations after WWI?

1. They wanted to avoid being pulled into another war.

500

Under the leadership of the Bolshevik leader named ______, Russia’s government changed to ______.

Vladimir Lenin

communism

Great Depression

100

1. Better pay and more job opportunities, less discrimination, more education, and a sense of citizenship in the northern states caused many African Americans in the south to move north. This was known as the…

1. Great Migration

200

1. October 29, 1929 became known as _______. A group of veterans known as the _______ marched to Washington to get the payments they were due from the war.

1. Black Tuesday

2. 
   

   • Bonus Army

300

1. President ________ responded to the Great Depression by keeping the government out of the economy and letting the business cycle work itself out. He signed the ______ Act to raise tariffs on goods going to Europe.

Hoover

Hawley Smoot

400

1. President Roosevelt created the _______ to help the American economy recover from the Great Depression and started______ to help Americans have more confidence about the future of the economy and the country as a whole.

1. New Deal

2. 
   

   • Fireside Chats

500

_______ was the historical name given to all of the agencies that were created as a part of the New Deal to provide relief, recovery, and reform in the United States.

Alphabet Soup    

World War II

100

1. Great Britain used the _____ to avoid war with Hitler, by giving in to his demands.

Appeasement Policy

200

1. First, Germany and Italy joined forces under the _______, and because Japan was against communism, they joined Germany under the _____.

1. Rome-Berlin Axis

2. Anti-Comintern Pact

300

In June of 1940, _______ was forced to surrender to Germany, and Great Britain was all alone in the war.

France

400

Prime Minister _____ gave a number of speeches telling Britains to “hold the line” and stay strong during the Battle of Britain.

Winston Churchill

500

1. The African American campaign for “victory abroad and victory at home” meant winning the war and also…

1. Having civil rights at home in the United States.