American Imperialism
Spanish-American War
Progressive Era
World War I
The 1920s
The Great Depression
The New Deal
World War II
100

Antiimperialists thought America should adhere to this, an idea present in George Washington's Farewell Address.

What is isolationism?

100

Sensationalistic reporting that featured bold and lurid headlines of crime, disaster, and scandal. Papers printed exaggerated and false accounts of Spanish atrocities in Cuba.

What is Yellow Journalism? 

100
Upton Sinclair was the muckraker who wrote this book which exposed the meatpacking industry and the troubles associated with it.  

The Jungle

100

German policy that mandated the sinking of any ship, military or otherwise, that entered into the warzome.

What is unrestricted submarine warfare?

100
The trial of a high school teacher in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law.  The teacher was found guilty and the trial was closely followed by the public.    
The Scopes "Monkey" Trial
100

This day is considered the beginning of the Great Depression, when the Stock Market crashed.

What is Black Tuesday?

100

The informal radio talks President FDR had with Americans during the Great Depression.

What are fireside chats?

100
Japan bombed this US naval and air force base.  The US responded by declaring war on Japan and officially entering WWI on the side of the Allies.
Pearl Harbor
200

In 1893, American settlers aided n the overthrow of this Hawaiian monarch and then petitioned for annexation by the United States

Who is Queen Liliuokalani?

200

A United States ship that sunk in Havana, Cuba. Initially blamed on Spain, it was later ruled an accident.

What is the USS Maine?

200

This group of Americans were considered the primary drivers of Progressive policy.

What are middle-class women?

200

Wilson's plan for a post war world, including Freedom of the Seas, the Right to Self-Determination, and the League of Nations.

What are Wilson's 14 Points?

200

This innovation allowed workers to stand in one spot and do repetitive tasks over and over, increasing productivity.

What is the assembly line?

200

This practice saw people taking out loans to buy stocks, artificially inflating the stock market.

What is buying on the margin?

200

The New Deal was meant to do these three things, commonly referred to as the "3 Rs."

What is relief for the unemployed, recovery for businesses, and reform of economic institutions?

200
Symbol of the American female factory worker who went to work during WWII.  
Rosie the Riveter
300

The idea that people should govern themselves and this principle applied to people everywhere, not just in the Unites States. 

What is self-determination? 

300

The United States acquired these territories from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish American War.

What are Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Phillipines


300

These democratic reforms were pushed by Progressive reformers to put political power back in the hands of the people.

What are the Secret Ballot, Initiative, Referendum, and Recall?

300
The discovery of this disclosed Germany's promise to help Mexico attack the US if the US declared war on Germany.
Zimmerman Telegram
300
This was triggered by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.  Americans were very paranoid and scared that Communism would overtake America.  
The Red Scare
300
Hoover created this in an attempt to protect US factories from foreign competition.  This backfired though, because European nations stopped buying US goods.  
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
300

This New Deal Program gave pensions to seniors, and gave everyone a federal number.

What is the Social Security Act?

300
The name given to the creation of the atomic bombs that were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 
The Manhattan Project
400

All nations would have equal trading privileges in China

What is Open Door Policy?

400

To demonstrate American naval power, Theodore Roosevelt sent this on an around-the-world cruise 

What is the Great White Fleet.

400

Collectively referred to as the "Progressive Amendments," the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th amendment did these things respectively.

What are the federal income tax, made senators directly elected by the people, introduced Prohibition, and granted women the right to vote.

400

The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.  

The Great Migration

400

These women drove, smoked in public, drank, and wore dressed hemmed at the knee, representing women's liberation in the 1920s.

What are flappers?

400

At its peak, this was the percentage of Americans unemployed during the Great Depression.

What is 25%?

400

The New Deal transformed the United States into this.

What is a limited welfare state?

400
Supreme Court decision that said Japanese internment during WWII was in fact constitutional because it was during a time of war.  
Korematsu v. US
500

He argued that a strong navy was crucial to a country's ambitions of securing foreign markets and becoming a world power. 

Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?

500

These three polices dominated American foreign policy during the three Progressive Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.

What are the Roosevelt Corollary, Dollar Diplomacy, and Moral Diplomacy?

500

Theodore Roosevelt used this to set aside 150 million acres of federal land as national reserves that could not be sold or exploited.

What is the Forest Reserve Act of 1891?

500

This Supreme Court decision declared that the federal government could limit the 1st Amendment right of "freedom of speech" in time of war and if there was a "clear and present danger."

What is Schenk v. United States?

500

These were passed to reduce the number of "New" immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.  Were a response to nativism.

What is the Quota Act of 1921 and the National Origins Act?

500

These shantytowns of the unemployed were named this to mock the president overseeing the Great Depression.

What are Hoovervilles?

500

Franklin Roosevelts plan to overcome efforts to judicially challenge the New Deal.

What is the court-packing scheme?

500
It was at this conference that the allies planned for the post-war world, including the division of Germany, democratic elections in Eastern Europe, and the founding of the United Nations.

What is the Yalta Conference?