Imperialism
Progressive Era
WWI
Roaring 20's
Great Depression
WWII
100

This construction project cost the lives of thousands of workers to malaria and yellow fever, but dramatically reduced travel times from port cities in the U.S.

The Panama Canal

100

The term given to journalists who exposed underhanded practices of politicians and unethical or dangerous abuses by corporations.

Muckrakers

100

This started WW1

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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.  

Scopes Monkey Trial

100

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

The Lend-Lease Act

200

Alfred Mahan suggested the U.S. develop this branch of the military in order to increase American influence and power abroad.

Navy

200

The title of Upton Sinclair's novel about the disturbing and unsanitary practices he discovered in the Chicago meat-packing industry.

The Jungle

200

One Reason the US entered WW1

Zimmerman Telegram

Sinking of the Lusitania

Unrestricted German Submarine Warfare

200

What were women called if they went against social norms?

Flappers

200

Symbol of the American female factory worker who went to work during WWII. 

Rosie the Riveter

300

The name given to Teddy Roosevelt's addendum to the Monroe Doctrine that asserted U.S. control over Latin America.  

Roosevelt Corollary

300

This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.

Jane Addams

300

Movement of nearly 2 million African-Americans from the South to the North for industrial jobs.

The Great Migration

300

What was Roosevelt's Three R's

Relief

Recovery

Reform

300

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

The Manhattan Project

400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

* Year that we become an Empire

* War that we win that gives us an Empire

* Name 3 (of 4) "nations" we acquire

400

This movement was led primarily by middle-class female reformers who sought to spread Christianity through aid to immigrants and the urban poor.

The Social Gospel Movement

400

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."

Schenck vs US

400

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

"Packing" the Court

400

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

Korematsu vs the US

500

Called for equal protection and privileges for (all) countries trading with China. Written by US - China not consulted.

Open Door Policy

500

This disaster occurred in New York (1911), involved the deaths of 146 people, and drew attention to unsafe working conditions.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

A) Wilson's Plan Post-WW1

B) Name of Treaty

C) Organization formed Post-WW1

500

What was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in NYC and influenced by African Americans.

Harlem Renaissance

500

Provided WWII veterans with low interest mortgages, college tuition, and vocational training.

G. I. Bill