PROGRESSIVE
Journalists who exposed corruption and business abuses.
Who are Muckrakers?
She sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks
A term for a business that controls an entire industry
What is a Monopoly
The U.S. entered WWII immediately following this 1941 surprise attack by the Japanese.
What is the attack on pearl harbor
In the 1920s, these young women challenged social norms with short hair and shorter skirts.
Who are Flappers(fortnite)
his 1906 book by Upton Sinclair exposed the horrific conditions of the meatpacking industry.
what is The Jungle
This act made segregation illegal in public facilities and prohibited job discrimination based on race.
Civil Rights Act of 1964?
During the Great Depression, this environmental disaster on the Great Plains led to mass westward migration to California.
What is the dustbowl
This type of combat was a defining feature of WWI, leading to a long and deadly stalemate on the Western Front.
his 1969 event, where Americans first walked on the moon, is often considered the peak of the Space Race.
What is the apollo 11 mission
He founded the NAACP and argued that African Americans should demand immediate social and political equality.
W.E.B DuBois
This law banned literacy tests and sent federal examiners to register voters in the South.
What is the voting rights act of 1965
This 1929 event is often cited as the official start of the Great Depression
The stock market crash of 1929
This secret telegram from Germany to Mexico helped pull the U.S. into World War I.
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
This era of the 1920s saw a massive explosion of African American art, music, and literature in New York City.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
This 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, finally gave this group the right to vote
Who are Women
Dr. King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during this massive 1963 protest in the nation's capital.
The march on washington
This Scottish-American industrialist dominated the steel industry and practiced "Gospel of Wealth" philanthropy.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
This 1898 war resulted in the U.S. gaining control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This was the name of the first satellite launched into space by the USSR, sparking the Space Race.
This "trust-buster" used the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up the Northern Securities Company railroad monopoly.
WHO IS THEODOORE ROOSEVELT
This militant Civil Rights group, founded in Oakland, focused on "Black Power" and protecting neighborhoods from police brutality.
The Black Panthers
This "Hands-off" economic theory suggests the government should not interfere in the free market.x
What is Laissez-faire?
This was the primary reason the United States entered the conflict—to stop the spread of communism from the North into the South.
What is containment
This 19th-century belief held that it was the "God-given right" of the U.S. to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?