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100

What immigrants worked on the transcontinental railroad?

Who are Chinese 

100
Name for a reporter that exposes government corruption and the abuses of big businesses?
What is a muckracker?
100

Cause of the Spanish American War, exaggerated reporting.  Reported that Spain was responsible for the explosion of the USS Maine.

What is Yellow Journalism?

100

This weapon helped caused the war to be a stalemate. No more head to head combat.  

What is the machine gun?

100
Term for widespread fear of a communist takeover?

What is red scare?

100

Law that increased tariffs in the 1920s. 

What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?

100

Term for the symbol that women's roles were changing in the 1920s.

What is flapper?

200

the government prohibited immigration based on race or ethnicity.  Wanted to limit unskilled workers and not compete for jobs.

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

200

What amendment calls for the direct election of Senators?

What is the 17th Amendment?

200

Leader of Hawaii overthrown by U.S. Marines to protect U.S. plantations


What is Queen Liliuokalani



200

Reason for US entry in WWI, Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico.  If Mexico became an ally of Germany they would help them get back lost territory.

What is the Zimmerman Telegram/Note?

200

What increased production and lowered cost of cars

Henry Ford's assembly line method of producing cars.

200

Caused by poor farming practices, high winds, and drought.  Led to increased migration west to California. Depopulation of the Great Plains.

What is the Dust Bowl?

200

Court case that showcased the conflict between science and religion.

What is the Scopes Trial?

300

What is the name for the type of business that takes over an entire industry by eliminating their competition?

What is a monopoly?

300

Supreme Court case which legalized segregation

What is Plessy vs. Ferguson



300

Name 3 territories the US gained in the Pacific Ocean?  Pacific acquisitions.  Wanted for their strategic location to help military and commerce (business)

What are Guam, Philippines, Midway, Wake Island, Samoa, and Hawaii?

300

What was the name for Wilson's plan for peace after World War I?

What is Fourteen Points?

300

What did we see a rise in as a result of the ratification of the 18th Amendment?

What is organized crime?

300

Name for FDR's program to combat the Great Depression? Focused on 3 R's relief, recovery, reform. 

The New Deal

300

Who helped create the NAACP and believed African Americans could gain equality by getting a classical education?

Who is W.E.B. Dubois?

400

These were formed to fight for the rights of workers.  Wanted better pay and working condition.  Also wanted to end the use of child labor.

What are labor unions?

400

What are the effects of the local and state law making reforms initiative, referendum, and recall?

What is direct democracy?  People participating in government. POWER to the people. 

400

Foreign policy that ensured equal trading with China.

What is the Open Door Policy?

400

What legislation violated the 1st Amendment by limiting free speech?

What is the Espionage Act?

400

The rebirth of African American culture.  Art, music, literature.

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

400

New Deal Agency that helped elderly and disabled people.

What is the Social Security Act?

400

New Deal program the ensures bank deposits and savings.

What is the FDIC-Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?

500

The name of Andrew Carnegie's book that encouraged philanthropy? 

What is The Gospel of Wealth?

500

The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed as a result of this 

Upton Sinclair's the Jungle.   

500

Foreign policy that made the US an international police power in Latin America.  Addition to the Monroe Doctrine.

What is Roosevelt Corollary/Big Stick Policy?

500

What US Senator opposed the US joining the League of Nations because it would take away US sovereignty in foreign affairs? Believed the US might get drawn into future conflicts. 

Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?

500

Presidential scandal that caused distrust in the government during the 1920s.  Illegal oil leases of federal government land.

What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?

500

Name for FDR's attempt to weaken the Judicial Branch and strengthen the Executive Branch by adding 6 new justices to the Supreme Court?

What is the court-packing scheme?

500

Court case that showed nativism by putting to death 2 Italian immigrants without much evidence. 

What is the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial?