The Progressive Era
Imperialism
World War I
Roaring '20s
Great Depression
100
The term we use to describe positive change.
What is progressivism?
100
This man, pictured here, in the political cartoon appropriately titled "School Begins."
Who is Uncle Sam?
100
This global pandemic killed upwards of three times as many people as all of the countries from World War I combined?
What is the Spanish Flu?
100
This is a tax on foreign goods, like sugar from Hawaii, designed to increase consumer spending on goods in the U.S.A.
What is a tariff?
100
A long gathering of people outside of homeless shelters or soup kitchens where the unemployed would be given free food.
What is a breadline?
200
An organized group of workers, often in a factory, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
What is a labor union?
200
When under imperial rule, foreign countries become occupied by immigrants from the empire and are called this.
What is a colony?
200
This passenger ship, sunk by German submarines, carried United States citizens and was one of the reasons why the U.S. broke its policy of isolationism.
What is the Lusitania or the Sussex?
200
The purchasing of goods or services for want instead of need.
What is consumerism?
200
This President, who had small make-shift shantytowns named after him during the Great Depression. Though he was perhaps more famous for constructing the huge dam in Colorado?
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
The 27th President of the United States, perhaps best known for getting stuck in the White House bathtub.
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
This is when an empire takes control of land from another empire or native population and claims it as its own territory.
What is an annexation?
300
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is Propaganda?
300
The 18th Amendment made illegal the buying, selling, or manufacturing, of any alcoholic beverages -- also known as this.
What is Prohibition?
300
This day, October, 29th 1929, is infamously known for the crash of the stock market; during which all efforts to save the market failed and all stocks became worthless. Perhaps better known by this nickname.
What is Black Tuesday?
400
This amendment ratified by President Woodrow Wilson gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
This president, the 25th of the United States, is credited for ceding the new territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines from Spain after the Spanish-American War.
Who is William McKinley?
400
The four M.A.I.N. causes of WWI.
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
400
The 29th President of the United States, he believed the government should stay out of big business and let the national economy run itself.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
400
The 32nd president of the United States, often referred to only by his initials, is perhaps best known for is friendly "fireside chats" and credited with bringing the country out of the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
500
Author of The Jungle, an investigative journal intended to bring attention to the plight of immigrant workers in meat-packing factories.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
500
Using sensationalist headlines and poorly corroborated sources to create exaggerated news is given this colorful name.
What is Yellow Journalism?
500
This telegraph was intended for Mexico but was intercepted by the United States and asked for Mexico to join Germany and the other Axis Powers.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
500
An economic philosophy of free-market business and entrepreneurship that opposes government intervention.
What is laissez-faire economics?
500
A neighborhood, infamously named after an unpopular U.S. president, made up of small shacks built by homeless people who used whatever random materials they could find to make shelter.
What is a Hooverville?