Industrialization, Immigration and Progressivism
The words "...Give me your tired, your poor...Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!", on the base of the Statue of Liberty refer to what group of people?
What are immigrants
As a result of what War in 1898, did the U.S acquire the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico?
What was the Spanish-American War?
Susan B. ______________ was a leader of the women's rights movement.
What is Anthony?
What event led to the U.S entering World War II?
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
What country, which was the largest in the world, became communist in 1918?
Who is Russia?
What is the term for people who strongly oppose immigration?
What are Nativists?
Give one economic reason the U.S would want to acquire territories?
What are desire for raw materials/natural resources or new markets for trade?
Women didn't get _____________, or the right to vote, until the 19th amendment passed in 1920.
What is suffrage?
As a result of the U.S declaring War on Japan, the U.S placed many Japanese-Americans into____________ camps, which 40 years later was declared unconstitutional.
What is internment?
Who was the leader of the U.S.S.R, otherwise known as the Soviet Union, from the 1920's to the 1950's?
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The use of child labor, low wages, long hours, and unsafe working conditions all led to the growth of ______ _______, such as the Knights of Labor and AFL.
What are Labor Unions?
Give one military reason the U.S would want to acquire territories?
What is the desire to establish military (naval) bases?
Thousands of bank closings, unemployment skyrocketing, and the "Dust Bowl", are all events associated with the _________________?
What is the Great Depression?
What is ration?
After WWII, the Soviets made sure all the Eastern European nations near its border became communist, thereby creating an "____________", separating Eastern Europe from the Democratic governments in Western Europe.
What was the "Iron Curtain"?
In his book of photographs "How the Other Half Lives", Jacob Riis was trying to show the American public the deplorable living conditions for the poor in the __________(where?)?
Whar are cities?
U.S expansion, by acquiring territories, from 1860 to 1900 demonstrates a U.S Foreign Policy of ____________?
What is imperialism?
The Great Depression was triggered by what event?
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
Propaganda posters like the one of "________ ____ __________", encouraged many women to work in factories making War supplies.
What is "Rosie the Riveter?"
As a result of the Truman Doctrine, the U.S primary foreign policy from the end of WWII to the end of the Cold War was one of __________________, which means to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
Journalists who tried to expose society's problems were called _____________?
What are Muckrakers?
What were the main causes of WWI and what immediately started the war?
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism, and what was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
Pres. Rooosevelt's plan for dealing with the Great Depression was called the ____ _____. It created dozens of programs, which created thousands of jobs building dams, roads, schools, bridges, and other public works projects.
What is the New Deal?
The U.S dropped the first atomic bomb in history on the cities of _____________ and Nagasaki, which helped lead to Japan's surrender.
What is Hiroshima?
Name one of the two wars the U.S became involved in because they were trying to stop communism from spreading around the world.
What were the Korean War or Vietnam War?