Group that wanted to help themselves regain their financial footing after railroads nearly destroyed their livelihood with high shipping rates
What is the Farmer's Alliance?
100
Reason so many NE cities grew in population drom 1870 to 1900
What is immigration from Europe?
100
Term describing sloppy journalism filled with half-truths or outright lies
What is yellow journalism
100
Working on the war effort in WW I helped women get this right
What is suffrage
200
A "pull" factor that drew African Americans to the North and West during the Great Migration
What are good jobs?
200
A Gentlemen's Agreement between this president and Japan resulted in fewer immigrants
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
200
Canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean
What is the Panama Canal
200
Amendment giving women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment
300
Before they were outlawed in most cases, many areas of business were controlled by these in the 19th century
What is a monopoly?
300
Walk softly and carry a _____ __________ was a policy that prevented Caribbean nations incurring major debts with European nations
What is a big stick?
300
Woodrow Wilson made a speech to Congress saying "The world must be made safe for democracy." To what event was he referring?
What is the US entering WW I
300
Purpose of the Palmer Raids
What is looking for communists
400
Two revolutions that produced improved technologies
What are the 1st and 2nd Industrial Revolutions?
400
American acquisition of this territory limited Spain's influence in the Western Hemisphere.
What is Puerto Rico?
400
President who pursued a policy of Vietnamization
Who was Nixon
400
Pact created in 1928 to prevent future wars
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact
500
Black female entrepreneur who started a cosmetic empire due to her own problems with thinning hair
Who was Madame CJ Walker?
500
War in which journalists exaggerated events to build support for it and gave Congress very little room for a diplomatic resolution
What is the Spanish American War?
500
Amendment stating that "The right of citizens of the US, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or any State on account of age
What is the 26th Amendment
500
The Volstead Act was associated with what event in US history