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Industrialization
Mystery
Making Change
America at War
100
"Our national birth was the beginning of a new history, the formation and progress of an untried political system..." This quote describes this quality of America
What is uniqueness?
100
When a company owns all of the different businesses needed to run its opperations
What is vertical integration?
100
The impact of Plessy v Ferguson
What is legalized racial segregation (separate but equal)?
100
Journalists who used photographs, news stories, and books to expose terrible conditions of the poor and corruption in the government
What are muckrakers?
100
The primary reason Japanese Americans were sent to interment camps
What is assumed threat to national security?
200
"The railroad shipped $50 million worth of freight coast to coast every year..." This quote describes this effect of the transcontinental railroad
What is increased flow of goods to both coasts?
200
Natural selection applied to society in that stronger people or businesses would prosper
What is social Darwinism?
200
Cheaper trans-Atlantic travel was this type of factor that influenced Europeans to immigrate to the US
What is a pull factor?
200
The problem that the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) were trying to solve
What is high unemployment?
200
The Rosie the Riveter poster was aimed at this goal
What is getting women to contribute to wartime defense?
300
"They promised us plenty of goods, and food for forty years, plenty for all the Crows to eat; but that is not in the Treaty." This quote describes this experience Native Americans had with the American government
What is being lied to in order for the American government to take Native American land?
300
These are the primary goals of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) union. MUST LIST ALL 3 TO GET CREDIT
What are better working conditions, higher wages, shorter hours for members?
300
A cultural movement in the African-American community that used poetry, music, philosophy, and art to express frustration and triumphs
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
This organization worked within the court system to fight against racist policies and laws, and segregation
What is the NAACP?
300
The end result of Woodrow Wilson's 14 points
What is the League of Nations, a peace plan to prevent future wars?
400
"What the black man needs is a country and surroundings in harmony with his color and with respect to his manhood..." Henry McNeal Turner is arguing for this in this quote
What is black people creating their own country separate from the United States?
400
Henry Clay Frick thought this of unions
What is hating unions?
400
This is the definition of Sufferage
What is women's right to vote?
400
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) aimed to do this
What is restore confidence in financial institutions?
400
The Red Scare, Quota Acts, and the Sacco and Vanzetti case are similar in this way
What is fear/hatred of those considered "un-American"?
500
"My purpose... it was,a s I said above, to see if the shameful facts, spread out in all their shame, would not burn through our civic shamelessness and set fire to American pride" This quote shows this purpose of journalism
What is investigating and exposing injustice in America?
500
DAILY DOUBLE! - Your bet must be in multiples of 500 These were some of the working conditions working girls in Boston faced (MUST LIST AT LEAST TWO)
What are: workers paying for their own materials; workers paying to use the machines at work; workers paying for any damaged items at work?
500
Henry D. Lloyd thought this of industrialists HINT: Unit 1, pg. 45 "The Story of a Great Monopoly"
What is industrialists create wealth at the expense of the country/ government is corrupt?
500
The action congress took after the publication of Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle"
What is pass the Pure Food and Drug Act (FDA)?
500
This is the year America declared war on Japan and joined the Allied powers in WW2
What is 1941?