Imperialism
A tax on traded goods
Tariff
If a person settles land for five years, they can keep it.
Homestead Act
Poor housing
Tenement
Supreme Court case that legalized abortion
Roe v. Wade
This ended the Mexican American War
Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
Year of the San Francisco gold rush
1849
It is illegal to lie about what's in products
Pure Food and Drug Act
The overcrowding of cities
Urbanization
High School in Denver, Colorado, where a mass shooting occured.
Columbine
Suicidal Japanese pilot
Kamikaze
Manifest Destiny
Made alcohol illegal
18th Amendment
Organization that protects the rights of workers
Labor Union
The building of the atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
The build-up of the military
Militarism
Fake news
Yellow Journalism
Set of rules in the south that deepened segregation. You could go to jail for breaking one.
Jim Crow Laws
Author of "How the Other Half Lives", exposing poor tenement conditions
Jacob Riis
The mass murder of Jews during WWII
Holocaust
Conflict to get Iraq out of Kuwait
Persian Gulf War
Name one of the four territories the U.S. got from the Spanish American War
Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Philippines
Supreme Court case that said blacks and whites were separate but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
She helped provide resources for the poor in Chicago
Jane Addams
The scandal involving the Richard Nixon Presidency
Watergate
His assassination started WWI
Franz Ferdinand