What U.S. policy warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
The poll tax, literacy test, and grandfather clause were used to deny this group of people from voting after the Civil War.
A movement that occurred from 1900-1917 which sought to alleviate economic and social problems that came from industrialization.
100
Jacob Riis, a photojournalist, published the book "How the Other Half Lives." This book contained many images of what in American cities?
What are tenement houses?
100
This era in American history after WWI saw major cultural changes. Young Americans embraced looser morals over their parents generation.
What are the 1920s, the "Roaring Twenties?"
100
President Woodrow Wilson's speech to the European powers at the end of WWI. This plan outlined how to make peace and to have open talk on future issues.
What are the Fourteen Points?
200
This addition to the Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort and act as a policeman in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
200
A movement that occurred from 1900-1917 which sought to alleviate economic and social problems that came from industrialization.
What is the Progressive movement?
200
What Supreme Court case stated that "separate but equal public facilities were legal" and maintained segregation practices in the South?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
Susan B. Anthony was a social reformer and a feminist. What amendment did she help get passed?
What is the 19th Amendment, women's right to vote?
200
This political position favored native inhabitants over newcomers and immigrants.
What is nativism?
300
Newspaper Headline: PEACE TREATY IS RATIFIED. AWFUL SLAUGHTER. What is this an example of?
What is Yellow Journalism?
300
This tragic event that killed many women led to an increased awareness in the need to protect the safety of workers.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?
300
Towards the end of the 1800's many Americans were moving to these places.
What is cities?
300
The temperance movement encouraged moderation or abstinence in the consumption of intoxicating liquors. They succeeded in helping pass the 18th Amendment, also known as __________.
What is Prohibition?
300
What did Germany send to Mexico that asked for an alliance against the U.S. in WWI?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
400
The United States did not become a member of __________ because it feared being dragged into another European war.
What is the League of Nations?
400
This political party of the people wanted greater control in government to help solve many social problems.
What is the Populist and/or Progressive Party?
400
This type of group seeks to organize workers together and bargain for rights and benefits.
What are labor unions?
400
Many African Americans moved from the rural South to get these types of jobs in the industrial North after WWI.
What are factory jobs?
400
In Schenck v. United States, what amendment did Schenck used as a defense?
What is the 1st Amendment, freedom of speech?
500
Before becoming President, Theodore Roosevelt was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He resigned this high position so he could fight in the Spanish-American War. What foreign policy did he support?
What is Imperialism?
500
What muckracking book exposed the unsanitary conditions at meat packing factories?
Jacob Riis, a photojournalist, published the book "How the Other Half Lives." This book contained many images of what in American cities?
500
Social Darwinism, the idea that humans, compete in a struggle for "survival of the fittest." Men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan competed over being what?
What is wealth, money, or richest?
500
President Harding declared a Return to __________ so American can focus on itself and limit foreign engagements.
What is Normalcy?
500
These financial products were offered by the United States government to raise money during WWI.