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Progressive Era
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The 1920's
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World War II
100

This journalist's book exposed the meat packing industry. 

Who is Upton Sinclair? 

100

The causes of this included Yellow Journalism, the Cuban Revolution and the USS Maine explosion.

What is the Spanish American War

100

Two examples of Social Changes during the 1920's that became new Amendments to the Constitution.

What is the 18th and 19th Amendments.

100

A weather disaster the led to the increased migration of Farmers and Okies westward to places like California.

What is the Dust Bowl

100

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

What it the Manhattan Project

200

This muckracker depicted poor living conditions in tenements in his book 'How the Other Half Lives'

Who is Jacob Riis?

200

The person who encouraged U.S. imperialism so the U.S. could become a world power by building a strong Navy

Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan

200

Examples of cultural conflict during the 1920s that target immigrants. 

What is the Sacco & Vanzetti Trial or Immigration Acts of the 1920s

200

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

What is Social Security Act

200
A change in US foreign Policy that allowed Great Britain to travel to the US, pay for war supplies in cash and transport them back to Europe.
What is the Cash and Carry Policy
300

Recall, initiative and referendum are all changes to increase this in politics. 

What is Direct Democracy? 

300

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

300
This was improved by the use of new technologies like, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, washing machines and radios that gave people more leisure time.
What is Standard of Living
300

How did FDR address the problem with Banking when he first came into office as President.

What is the Banking Holiday and Emergency Banking Act

300
This officially ended the United States policy of neutrality and isolation.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor
400

In response to large numbers of vacant federal jobs and corruption this commission was created. 

What is the Civil Service Commission or Pendleton Act? 

400

Two examples of how some Americans (mainly Germans) lost some civil liberties and freedoms during World War I. 

What is the Espionage and Sedition Acts

400
The name used to describe the "new" woman of the 1920's who wore short hair and dresses and expanded social freedoms.
What is a Flapper
400

This was greatly increased by the New Deal during the Great Depression and continued to expand during events like WWII and the Cold War. 

What is the Power of the President or Executive Branch

400
A work program created by the US to bring Mexican agricultural laborers into the US to work on farms in the West.
What is the Bracero Program
500

A change to the Constitution that gave citizens the power to directly elect their Senators to Congress.

What is the 17th Amendment

500

The two effects of new technologies in World War I.

What is more causalities and stalemate

500

An example of a battle between Fundamentalist Christians who believed in the Bible story of creation and Modernists who believed in Darwin's theory of evolution. 

What is the Scopes Trial

500

The president at the beginning of the Great Depression who was blamed for not doing enough to help the people.

Who is Herbert Hoover

500

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

What is Korematsu v. the United States