Trustbusters and Reformers
This president became known as a "trustbuster" and promoted the Square Deal
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
What policy stated that China should remain open to trading with all nations?
What was the Open Door policy?
This amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol
What was the 18th amendment?
This event in October of 1929 that is known as the beginging of the Great Depression
What was the Stock Market Crash?
The suprise attack that brought the United States into WWII
What was Pearl Harbor?
Which amendment established the direct election of senators?
What was the 17th Amendment?
This amendment limited Cuban independence after the Spanish-American War
What was the Platt Amendment?
This cultural and artistic movement celebrated African American culture
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
What were Franklin Roosevelt's radio broadcasts called?
What were Fireside Chats?
The US strategy of capturing key islands while moving toward Japan
What was island hopping?
Journalists who exposed corruption and social issues during the Progressive era were called...
What are muckrakers?
This act punished critism of the government during World War I
What was the Sedition Act?
This trial focused on the teaching of evolution in Tennessee Schools
What was the Scopes Trial?
This New Deal program hired young men for conservation and public work projects
What was the CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps?
This conference planned the postwar world and discussed the United Nations
This Supreme Court upheld "seperate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
This Supreme Court Case established the "clear and present danger" principle regarding free speech during wartime
What is Schenck vs United States?
This secret organization experienced a major resurgence in the 1920s and promoted nativism, white supremacy, and anti-immigrant beliefs.
What was the KKK?
This program created retirement pensions and unemployment insurance
What was Social Security?
The code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy
What was D-Day or Operation Overlord?
This Progressive Era reform gave voters the power to remove elected officials before their terms ended
What is recall?
What explosion in Havana Harbor forced the US into the Spanish-American War?
What was the USS Maine?
This immigration law established strict quotas favoring northern Europeans
What was the National Orgins Act of 1924?
This New Deal program regulated the Stock Market after the crash of 1929
What was the Securities and Exchange Commission or the SEC?
The U.S. government project that developed the Atomic Bomb
What was the Manhattan Project?