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immigrants/industry
Imperialism
The World Wars
20's and 30's
Post WWII Era
100
What is the name of the place where immigrants were processed when they came into America?
Ellis Island
100
Who does America go to war with in 1898? It was a splendid little war.
Spain
100
At the start of both World Wars, the United States did not want to get involved, we attempted to stay.....
Neutral
100
The rebirth of African-American culture in the arts in the 20's is known as...
Harlem Renaissance
100
Which country did the U.S. have tense relations with after WWII due to ideological differences?
Soviet Union
200
Which 2 regions of Europe did the immigrants come from in the early 1900's?
Southern and Eastern Europe
200
Remember the Maine, ship deliberately attacked, It was done by the beastly Spainards -- All these statements are examples of:
Yellow Journalism
200
The assassination of this man was the spark that cause the start of WWI
Archduke Ferdinand
200
The illegal sale of alcoholic beverages was known as...
Prohibition
200
U.S. policy of containment, meant we were trying to stop the spread of.....
Communism
300
What name was given to journalists such as Ida Tarbell, by exposing the corruption of big business?
Muckrakers
300
What island nation did we take over by sending American planters there and disposing of their queen?
Hawaii
300
What is the event that causes America to enter WWII?
The attack on Pearl Harbor
300
The midwest was hit with a severe draught in the 30's, this was called
Dust bowl
300
The theory that if one country falls to communism then others would as well is known as.
Domino theory
400
Henry Fords uses this in this factories to speed up production of automobiles.
The assembly line
400
Why was the Panama Canal built
To connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
400
What was the Manhantan Project?
Secret testing of the atomic bomb.
400
This program was part of the New Deal that secured one's money in banks it is called...
FDIC - Federal Depoit Insurance Corp.
400
The segregated south and laws that supported that were refered as...
Jim Crow Laws
500
This french term refers to a "hands off" policy between government and big business.
Laissez-faire
500
Those who wanted to limit contact with other countries were called.
Isolationists.
500
Name the 3 countries that made up the axis powers in WWII.
Germany, Italy, and Japan
500
What were the 3 R's of Franklin's Roosevelts attempt to end the Great Depression.
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
500
This Supreme Court case said that segreation is not equal in the school system in 1954.
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas