The banning of the manufacture, sale and transportation of alochol
What is Prohibition
100
Andrew Carnegie controlled the ________ business.
What is Steel?
100
After winning the Spanish-American War, the US granted the Philippines its independence
What is false
100
High winds and drought hit the country's farm belt
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
This group of people were negatively affected by the decline of affirmative action programs and cuts in welfare spendingin
What is racial minorities
200
The Movement of African Americans from the South to Northern Cities in order to escape racism and poverty
What is the Great Migration
200
A reason that is causing you to leave your country.
What is a push factor?
200
Upon taking office, President Woodrow Wilson continued the foreign policy practices of Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
What is false?
200
Speaking on the radio is howFDR reached millions of Americans
What are Fireside Chats
200
Besides defense spending, what spending increased during Reagan's Presidency
What is national debt/ deficit spending
300
African American poet that became popular during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes
300
A large company formed by a group of investors
What is a corporation?
300
The reason the US went to war during the Spanish American War
What is the explosion of the USS Maine.
300
This promised "to promote the general welfare"
What is the Second New Deal
300
The First Persian Gulf War and the Camp David Peace Accords were attempt to do this
What is create stability in the Middle East
400
Name the amendment that made alcohol illegal AND the amendment that made it legal again.
What are the 18th amendment (banned alcohol) and the 21st (ended prohibition).
400
Rockefeller had a __________ on the oil industry
What is a monopoly?
400
This city was used as a staging ground for ships and troops during the Spanish American War
What is Tampa
400
WWI army veterans that went to Washington to get a promised bonus.
What is the Bonus Army
400
Economic approach that is opposite to supply-side economics
What is Keynesian Economics
500
African American leader from Jamaica that supported black nationalism. He wanted African Americans to become economically independent and to take pride in their African heritage. Eventually he was sent back to Jamaica.
Who is Marcus Gravey.
500
A run down apartment that immigrants frequently lived in sometimes with many other families, in small, confined conditions
What is a tenement house.
500
The policy introduced by Taft
What is Dollar Diplomacy
500
This established a minimum wage, set working hour limits, and allowed for unions to bargain collectively. Later it was declared unconstitutional.
What is the NRA (National Recovery Act)
500
Symbol of the end of the Cold War even though it did not actually end the Cold War