The Progressive Era
What term describes journalists who exposed corruption and social injustices during the Progressive Era?
Muckrakers
What event triggered World War I?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 1914
What manufacturing innovation made consumer goods more affordable in the 1920s?
Assembly line production
What event led to the U.S. entry into WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
What was the mass migration of African Americans to Northern cities for jobs called?
The Great Migration
Which amendment granted women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
What was the U.S. policy at the start of WWI?
Neutrality
What term describes the cultural and artistic explosion in the African American community during the 1920s?
Harlem Renaissance
What was the U.S. military strategy in the Pacific called?
Island Hopping
What amendment ended Prohibition?
21st Amendment, 1933
What term describes the expansion of government regulation over big business during the Progressive Era?
Trust-busting or Antitrust Reform
What intercepted German telegram proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the U.S.?
Zimmermann Telegram, 1917
What was a primary cause of the 1929 Stock Market Crash?
Over-speculation & buying stocks on margin
What term describes the mass relocation of Japanese Americans during WWII?
Japanese Internment
What was the goal of Executive Order 9981, issued by President Truman in 1948?
Desegregate the U.S. military
What federal act, passed in response to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, regulated the food industry?
Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
What was the name of Wilson’s post-war peace plan?
Fourteen Points
What term describes makeshift homeless communities during the Great Depression?
Hoovervilles
What was the significance of D-Day?
Allied invasion of Normandy, turning point in Europe
What was the purpose of the Wagner Act (1935)?
Protected workers’ rights to unionize and bargain collectively
Who was the African American leader that founded the NAACP and promoted immediate civil rights?
W.E.B. Du Bois
What was the major reason the U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles?
Opposition to the League of Nations
What major 1935 act provided pensions and unemployment benefits?
Social Security Act
What U.S. program supplied war materials to Allied nations before officially joining WWII?
Lend-Lease Act OR Cash-and-Carry
What law established immigration quotas that heavily restricted immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe?
Immigration Act of 1924
Name two key Progressive Era reforms aimed at increasing democracy.
Direct election of senators (17th Amendment), secret ballots, initiatives, referendums, recall elections, etc.
Which 1919-1920 event involved government raids against suspected radicals and anarchists?
The First Red Scare/Palmer Raids
What 1937 event hurt FDR’s popularity?
Court-Packing Plan
What was the name of the campaign advocating for African Americans to fight for democracy abroad and racial justice at home?
Double V Campaign
What 1948 action by President Truman desegregated the U.S. military?
Executive Order 9981