Gilded/Progressive
Who was the Muckraker who wrote "the Jungle" in which helped establish a federal inspection system for meats and food.
Upton Sinclair
After defeating Spain in 1898, the world waited to see what the U.S. would do with this Pacific island nation they received which resulted in another war?
Philippines
During times of credit and market instability, what were the names of the shantytowns named after the president of the time?
During the Red Scare, HUAC investigations and Hollywood blacklists aimed to expose and remove supporters of this political ideology.
Communism
In 1962, the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in this Caribbean country brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
Cuba
This term describes the process by which Native Americans were pressured to abandon their cultures and adopt European-American customs.
Assimilation
What was Teddy Roosevelt's "Big Stick Diplomacy" policy about?
The US was willing to use military force to protect american interests
This New Deal program paid farmers to reduce crop production in order to raise prices, helping them recover from the Great Depression.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
This defensive alliance, formed in 1949, was seen by the Soviet Union as a threat, deepening the divide symbolized by the Iron Curtain.
NATO
What was the major event during the Vietnam War where more American people started to speak against the war than people who supported it?
Tet Offensive
____________ philosophy of “accommodation” meant accepting segregation in exchange for economic opportunity.
Booker T. Washington's
During WWI, what were you not allowed to do under the Espionage & Sedition Acts?
Talk badly about the war/draft publicly
What did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) provide through the New Deal?
Insures bank deposits to protect people’s savings in case of bank failures
To conserve gasoline and rubber during WWII, Americans were encouraged to do this with coworkers or neighbors.
Carpooling
The Pentagon Papers, My Lai Massacre, and Tonkin Gulf Resolution all resulted in creating what between the people and the government?
Credibility Gap
This theory, based on "survival of the fittest," was used in the late 19th century to justify business monopolies and oppose government regulation.
Social Darwinism
President Wilson was willing to leave what American policy when entering WWI 3 years after it's start?
We left this policy when entering WWII, as well.
Neutrality
Critics said FDR was trying to grab too much power when he proposed adding more justices to this branch of government in 1937.
During WWII, who were put in "Internment Camps" due to being seen as a threat or spies?
Japanese Americans
LBJ increased funding of social programs through the __________.
Great Society
Who was the leader of the NWP?
Alice Paul
Which war did "Yellow Journalism" result in?
Spanish-American War
Which president during the Great Depression thought the government was responsible to help out the country in times of crisis?
FDR
After the Soviet Union launched ________ in 1957, the U.S. created NASA, promoted duck and cover drills, and boosted math and science in schools to compete in the Space Race.
Sputnik
This Alabama city became a focal point of the civil rights struggle after the 1965 marches for voting rights were violently stopped on a bridge and broadcast on national TV.
Selma