The Gilded Age 🏙
This term refers to the rapid growth of cities and industries in the late 1800s.
What is urbanization?
These journalists exposed corruption and problems in society during the Progressive Era.
Who are muckrakers?
This war in 1898 marked the U.S. emergence as a world power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This war ended in 1975 and caused deep divisions in the U.S.
What is the Vietnam War?
This document, signed in 1776, declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This principle divides power among three branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
He revolutionized steel production and became one of the richest men of the Gilded Age.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
She led the fight for women’s suffrage and helped get the 19th Amendment passed.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This U.S. policy kept us out of World War I until 1917.
What is neutrality (or isolationism)?
In 1979, Americans were taken hostage for over a year in this country.
What is Iran?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The 1st Amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and this.
What is petition?
These laws were passed to keep African Americans and poor whites from voting.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This act of 1906 required the accurate labeling of food and medicine.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This telegram helped push the U.S. into WWI when Germany encouraged Mexico to attack us.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This president is known for improving U.S.-China relations in the 1970s.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The system where powers are shared between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
President known for trust-busting and conservation during the Progressive Era.
Theodore Roosevelt
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities in WWII.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The U.S. invaded this country in 2003 over weapons of mass destruction claims.
What is Iraq?
This event in 1929 triggered the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
This system lets each branch of government limit the powers of the others.
What are checks and balances?
This law was the first major attempt to regulate big business by outlawing monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This amendment, passed during the Progressive Era, allowed for a federal income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This plan provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This peace agreement, brokered by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, led to a historic treaty between Egypt and Israel.
What are the Camp David Accords?
In this 1954 case, the Supreme Court ruled segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The 14th Amendment guarantees this type of protection under the law.
What is equal protection?