Gilded Age/Progressive Era
This Industrialist (Captain of Industry or Robber Baron?) founded Standard Oil, becoming one of the wealthiest men in American history. Standard Oil's corrupt practices were later the subject of a book written by Ida B. Wells.
John D. Rockefeller
This war, fought in 1898, resulted in the United States acquiring Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
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Spanish-American War
Who were the two presidents during the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
This attack on a U.S. naval base brought the United States into World War II
Pearl Harbor
This term describes the policy of stopping the spread of communism.
Containment
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Published in 1890, this groundbreaking work by Jacob Riis used photographs and firsthand reporting to expose the harsh living conditions of New York City's tenements
This newspaper publishing style exaggerated stories to increase sales and helped build support for war with Spain.
Yellow Journalism
This amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
It was later overturned by the 21st Amendment.
18th Amendment
This code name was given to the Allied invasion of Normandy. It allowed the Allies to gain a foothold in Western Europe.
D-Day
This U.S. aid program helped rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
The Marshall Plan
Promising fairness for workers, consumers, and businesses, this domestic program was championed by President Theodore Roosevelt and emphasized conservation, trust-busting, and consumer protection.
The Square Deal
This canal, completed in 1914, greatly shortened travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and increased U.S. influence in Latin America.
Panama Canal
During the 1930s, severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms across this region of the United States
In the Pacific Theater, U.S. forces used this strategy of capturing key islands while bypassing heavily defended ones to move closer to Japan.
Island Hopping
This 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union brought the world closest to nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Passed in 1890, this landmark U.S. law prohibited business monopolies and combinations that restrained trade, becoming a key tool in later trust-busting efforts.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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This document expanded the Monroe Doctrine and justified U.S. intervention in Latin America.
Created in 1935, this New Deal program provides retirement benefits and unemployment insurance.
Social Security Administration
This secret U.S. project developed the atomic bomb.
Manhattan Project
During the Korean War, this U.S. general publicly disagreed with President Harry S. Truman over expanding the war into China, leading to his removal from command in 1951.
General Douglas MacArthur
Two Part Question:
This amendment established the income tax.
This amendment established the direct election of Senators to prevent corruption.
16th and 17th.
This belief held that stronger nations had the right and duty to dominate weaker nations, often used to justify imperialism.
Social Darwinism
This New Deal program provided jobs through large public works projects such as dams and roads.
What was the WPA (Works Progress Administration)
In this controversial 1944 Supreme Court case, the Court upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, a decision later widely criticized
Korematsu v. The United States
This 1964 U.S. congressional resolution gave President Lyndon B. Johnson broad authority to escalate military involvement in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution