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The Progressive Era
World War I
The 1920s
Great Depression & New Deal
World War II
100

The Woman reformer who established a famous settlement house (Hull House) to help immigrants and poor people in America.

Who is Jane Addams

100
The President of the US who wanted to join WWI to defend democracy and humanitarianism.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
100

The fear of Communism and anarchy after WWI was called this

The First Red Scare

100

Part of the New Deal that provided $ for old age pensions and disabled people.

What is Social Security Act

100

The top secret mission in the US to build the world's first atomic bomb that became a controversial issue after it was used.

What is the Manhattan Project

200
Theodore Roosevelt signed the Meat Inspection Act in response mostly to this book

The Jungle

200

Give at least two reasons why the U.S. entered WWI

Zimmerman telegram, sinking of Lusitania, unrestricted submarine warfare, Russian Revolution

200

New technologies in the 1920s allowed for this and was the way Henry Ford produced cars.

What is Mass Production or the Assembly Line

200

Unequal distribution of wealth, overproduction, buying on the margin and over speculation were all causes of what.

What is the Great Depression

200

A example of the transition from Isolation to Intervention that allowed the US to loan weapons and war supplies to Great Britain.

What is the Lend Lease Act

300

The abuse of alcohol and the rise of the temperance movement led to this

The passing of the 18th Amendment, or Prohibition

300
The part of the government that did not want to sign the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
What is Congress
300

An example of a new consumer product in the 1920s that was also used as a form of advertisement.

What is the Radio

300

Franklin Roosevelt tried to do this to get some new ideas in the Supreme Court

Pack it with more members

300

Group of people who experienced positives during WWII with new economic opportunities and experienced negatives during WWII with racial discrimination.

What are African-Americans

400
This tragedy sparked greater women's activism and pushed states to improve safety and working conditions in factories.

What is The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

400
The movement of over 2 million African-Americans out of the South into the north for industrial jobs and economic opportunity.
What is the Great Migration
400

Why were they called the Roaring Twenties?

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400

The political party that became popular among different ethnic groups, African-Americans and the working class because of the New Deal.

What is Democratic Party

400

The turning point in the Pacific theatre of WWII

The Battle of Midway

500

Examples of reforms on the State and local level that allowed citizens to have more power in the Political Process.

Direct election of Senators (17th), Women's suffrage, initiative and referendum

500

Woodrow Wilson pushed for this ideology after the war but the other 3 of the Big 4 disagreed with him.

What is"peace without victory"?

500

The media went crazy covering this trial that debated the merits of evolution being taught in public schools

The Scopes Monkey Trial

500

Which part of FDR's New Deal program included the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA).

What is Relief

500

The Supreme Court case the ruled the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was legal.

What is Korematsu v. the United States