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Westward Expansion
Immigration
Roaring 20s
Great Depression
American Dream
100
What is the term that explains Americans' ideology of traveling west?
Manifest Destiny
100
What is the name for the port that European immigrants entered through?
Ellis Island
100
What is the name for women who drank, danced, and cut their hair during the 1920s?
Flappers
100
When did the stock market crash that started the Great Depression?
October 1929
100
What is the American dream?
Having the freedom and the rights to achieve and be whatever you want to be or have in your life.
200
Name of the land the United States aquired from the French.
Louisiana Purchase
200
What is the name of the port that Asian immigrants entered through?
Angel Island
200
What is the name that made the selling, producing, and buying of alcohol illegal?
Prohibition
200
Who was the president when the great depression started?
Herbert Hoover
200
What did the American Dream include during westward expansion?
New land, gold, economic prosperity, traveling west, etc.
300
What is the removal of Native Americans also called?
Trail of Tears
300
During the 1880s -1920s, immigration shifted from these original countries to these new countries.
Western European countries to Eastern European countries.
300
Due to restrictions on alcohol, organized crime developed and mobs grew. Name the most famous mob leader.
Al Capone.
300
What is the name for the economic plan that FDR began to help recover the nation during the great depression?
The New Deal
300
What did the American Dream look like for new immigrants during 1880-1920?
hard to find jobs, tennements, poor living conditions, outcasts of society, etc.
400
Which president ordered the removal of Native Americans?
Andrew Jackson
400
Prior to 1880, most immigrants came from this region and after 1880, most immgrants came from this new region.
Western Europe and Eastern Europe
400
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A new African American cultural movement of the 1920s.
400
What was the unemployment rate during the 1930s?
25%
400
How did the American dream change from the 1920s to the 1930s?
1920s: prosperity, lots of money, buying, Hollywood, cars, luxury items 1930s: unemployment increased, hoovervilles, dust bowl, banks closed, people lost their savings, stock market crashed
500
This was a new law that made land cheap to the west and encouraged people to settle.
Homestead Act
500
What is the name of the photojournalist who portrayed the horrible conditions of new immigrants in the United States?
Jacob Riis
500
What were speakeasies?
An establishment that illegally sold alcohol.
500
What would finally fix the nation's poor economy?
World War II
500
How did the American Dream evolve over the past 250 years?
It was always about achieving everything you ever wanted but the obstacles changed and the way to reach your dream changed but everyone wanted freedom, their rights protected, and to be able to live a great life.