Industrial & Progressive
These workers were often needed in factories because they could fit into small spaces and were paid less than adults.
Who are children?
This 1898 conflict made the United States a world power and resulted in acquiring territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
What is the Spanish-American War?
These young women of the 1920s challenged traditional gender roles with short hair, shorter skirts, and more independent behavior.
Who are flappers?
This Pacific strategy involved capturing selected islands while bypassing heavily fortified Japanese positions.
What is island hopping?
This theory, used to justify U.S. involvement in Vietnam, suggested that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
These journalists who exposed corruption and social problems were nicknamed this by Theodore Roosevelt.
Who are Muckrakers?
This 1915 sinking of a British passenger liner by a German U-boat killed 128 Americans and pushed the U.S. toward war.
What is the Lusitania?
This 1935 legislation created a system of retirement benefits and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
This 1962 confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union over the placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba brought the world to the brink of nuclear war before a diplomatic resolution was reached.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 1954 Supreme Court case overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine in public education.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1886 event in Chicago began as a peaceful labor demonstration but turned violent after a bomb exploded.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
This 1918 speech outlined President Wilson's vision for a postwar world and included principles like open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, and national self-determination.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This October 29, 1929 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression when the stock market lost nearly 25% of its value in two days.
What is Black Tuesday/The Stock Market Crash?
This 1942 executive order authorized the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, resulting in the relocation of approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This 1964 congressional resolution authorized President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1920 after decades of activism, granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling urged the United States to take up the burden of empire and civilize "new-caught, sullen peoples, half-devil and half-child."
What is "The White Man's Burden"?
This New Deal program employed young men in conservation projects and sent their wages home to their families.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This secret U.S. program developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This 1965 legislation prohibited discriminatory voting practices and removed barriers to African American voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This term describes prejudice against immigrants and was a significant social issue during the late 19th century.
What is nativism?
Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy approach was characterized by this phrase suggesting aggressive diplomacy backed by military power.
What is "Big Stick Diplomacy"?
This Louisiana senator's "Share Our Wealth" program proposed confiscating large fortunes and redistributing wealth to provide every family with a guaranteed annual income of $2,500.
Who is Huey Long?
This 1947 presidential policy stated that the United States would provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communist expansion, marking a formal declaration of the Cold War.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This 1963 letter, written from jail, defended nonviolent resistance and criticized white moderates who preferred order over justice, becoming a seminal text of the Civil Rights Movement.
What is "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?