U.S. Expansion
Imperialists argued this 1890 event proved America needed overseas expansion.
What is the closing of the frontier (Turner Thesis)?
Journalists like Upton Sinclair who exposed corruption were known as these.
What are muckrakers?
This trial symbolized the clash between modern science and religious fundamentalism.
What is the Scopes Trial?
The New Deal focused on these three goals.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
This federal order authorized the internment of Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This war resulted in the U.S. acquiring Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This woman demanded an immediate amendment granting woman suffrage
Who is Alice Paul?
The rounding up of suspected radicals during the Red Scare in 1919
What are the Palmer Raids?
This program created old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.
What is Social Security?
Mass wartime production helped finally end this economic crisis.
What is the Great Depression?
This U.S. President began the Open Door Policy in China
Who is William McKinley?
This president was known as a “trust-buster” and promoted the Square Deal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This cultural movement expressed African American identity in art and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Conservatives challenged New Deal expansion of this branch of government.
What is the executive branch (federal power)?
This female cultural icon symbolized women working in wartime factories.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The suppression of this nationalist movement followed U.S. annexation in 1898.
What is the Philippine Insurrection?
This 1911 factory fire exposed unsafe working conditions and led to labor reforms.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This organization revived in the 1920s promoting nativism and white supremacy.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This 1935 law provided federal protection for workers to form unions
What is the Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
This migration program brought Mexican laborers to work in U.S. agriculture.
What is the Bracero Program?
Wilson thought this organization would help prevent future international conflicts?
What is the League of Nations
These two constitutional amendments reflect a Progressive moral and democratic reform.
What are Prohibition (18th) and Women’s Suffrage (19th)?
New technologies like this device helped spread a national culture.
What is the radio?
The New Deal coalition realigned this group strongly toward the Democratic Party
Who are African Americans and working-class voters?
Wartime restrictions on civil liberties led to this controversial Supreme Court case.
What is Korematsu v. United States?