Progressive Era-Cold War

Amendments

100

This amendment abolished slavery

13th Amendment

200

This amendment gave women the right to vote

19th

300

This amendment gave African-American men the right to vote

15th

400

The first ten amendments of the Constitution

Bill of Rights

500

This amendment banned alcohol

18th amendment

Progressive Era

100

Term used to describe investigative journalists who exposed the corruption in industry

Muckrakers

200

This man invented the incandescent light bulb

Thomas Edison

300

Term used to describe when an entire industry is controlled by one company

Monopoly

400

Immigrants from Europe came to America through what island

Immigrants from Asia came to America through what island

Europe-->Ellis Island in New York

Asia--> Angel Island in California

Immigrants were a cheaper source of labor

500

This connected the East and West Coast and made the United States a bi-coastal country

Transcontinental Road

Imperialism/WWI

100

What 2 events caused the U.S. to join WWI

continual unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram

200

Immigration was halted during WWI which created many job opportunities. Many blacks left the South to escape Jim Crow laws in the South and for job in the North was known as what?

Great Migration

300

What was Wilson's 14th Point

League of Nations

400

The United States annexed this country during the Spanish-American War

Phillipines

500

Treaty of Versailles blamed what country for WWI

Germany

WWII

100

What event caused the United States to join WWII

Pearl Harbor

200

To save countless American lives and end the war in the Pacific, what action did President Harry Truman take.

Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

300

This event allowed the Allied Powers to gain a stronghold in Europe

D-Day

400

The Enemy Alien list consisted of what groups of immigrants

Italian, German, and Japanese Americans

500

Code name for secrete research to develop Atomic bomb at the Los Alamos Research Facility

Manhattan Project

Cold War

100

U.S. policy during the Cold War

Containment

200

Wisconsin senator who  accused government officials and others of being communist without any basis

Joseph McCarthy

300

United States used this to justify American involvement in Vietnam.

Domino Theory

400

Which president cooperated with new Soviet Leader Gorbachev to end the Cold War

Ronald Reagan

500

This plan to use all resources possible to prevent the spread of communism to other countries

Truman Doctrine