Business and Immigration
Who were the Wright Brothers?
After the end of Reconstruction, these laws in the South helped to enforce segregation -
What were Jim Crow Laws?
The building of this by Theodore Roosevelt gave a much quicker route from the Atlantic to the Pacific -
What was the Panama Canal?
1914 - 1918
What was World War I?
This period of political and military tension lasted from the end of WWII until the fall of the Soviet Union -
What was the Cold War?
Assembly-line manufacturing was successfully used first by this inventor/businessman -
Who was Henry Ford?
This African American Activist believed in education, the "Talented Tenth", and helped found the NAACP -
Who was W.E.B. Dubois?
The Open Door Policy made sure that trade was open and fair on the shores of this foreign nation -
What was China?
Self-Determination, Freedom of the Seas, and a League of Nations were all included in this peace plan written by Wilson -
What were the Fourteen Points?
"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
Who was John F. Kennedy?
This captain of industry used the Bessemer Process to mass produce Steel -
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This African American Activist accepted segregation and supported vocational education -
Who was Booker T. Washington?
This war resulted in new U.S. territories including Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico -
What was the Spanish American War?
This New Deal president said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This plan provided massive amounts of military aid to Europe after WWII -
What was the Marshall Plan?
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 both limited this -
What was immigration?
This huge movement of African Americans away from the South and into big cities in the North was known as -
What was the Great Migration?
This document written by Theodore Roosevelt expanded the Monroe Doctrine and gave the U.S. "police power" in the Western Hemisphere -
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
This Axis nation brutalized Manchuria and China and sought total domination over Asia -
What was Japan?
In 1948, this president desegregated the armed forces -
Who was Harry Truman?
This type of economics has very little government involvement and lets big businesses grow with few rules and regulations
This rise in black culture in Northern cities gave birth to new music (Jazz), art, and literature, from artists such as Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
This movement sought to reform the economic, political, and social systems of the United States.
What was the Progressive Movement?
This "date that will live in infamy" brought the U.S. in to World War II -
What was Pearl Harbor?
This WWII General turned U.S. President adopted a policy of "Massive Retaliation" to deter any nuclear strike by the Soviet Union
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?