The Progressive Era
American Imperialism
WWI
Women in the era
Cause and effect
100
This journalist’s novel about Chicago’s meatpacking industry led directly to federal food safety legislation.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
100
This company played a key role in the overthrow of Hawaii’s native government.
What is the Dole Food Company?
100
This policy of attacking ships without warning angered Americans and pushed the U.S. toward war.
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
100
A woman could not wear this item of clothing in 1910.
What are pants?
100
The publication of The Jungle led directly to these two progressive reforms/Acts.
What are the Pure Food and Drug Act and/or Meat Inspection Act?
200
This Progressive law was intended to break up monopolies, but was initially used more against labor unions than big business.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
200
Sensationalist newspapers like the New York Journal used this tactic to push the United States toward war with Spain.
What is Yellow Journalism?
200
This secret German proposal attempted to form an alliance with Mexico against the United States.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
200
This movement encouraged women's right to vote
What is Suffrage?
200
The desire for overseas markets and military power helped trigger this short war
What is the Spanish-American War?
300
Although it became law in 1920, this amendment was preceded by Western states allowing it decades earlier.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
300
After defeating Spain, the U.S. gained these three territories, marking its emergence as a global power.
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and Philippines?
300
This president used buttons with the words "He has kept us out of the war" in his reelection campaign
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
This woman is famous for being a major advocate in the suffrage movement; however, she was racist.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
300
The demand for factory labor during WWI contributed to this large-scale movement of African Americans northward.
What is the Great Migration?
400
What type of legislation was the National Reclamation Act (Nature Conservation Laws)?
What is Progressive?
400
The explosion of this battleship in Havana Harbor became the immediate cause of the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
400
This unit fought in WWI and remained the longest in active duty.
Who are the Harlem Hellfighters?
400
Over half of women working at the turn of the century were working in what industry?
What is the garment (fabric) industry?
400
This was a peace plan proposed in WWI
What are Fourteen Points?
500
Despite being a suffrage organization, this group often failed to prioritize the voting rights of Black women.
What is the National American Woman Suffrage Association, or NAWSA?
500
This phrase was used to justify imperialism by claiming it was America’s duty to “civilize” other nations.
What is “The White Man’s Burden”?
500
Although most of Wilson's plan was supported by the Allies, the U.S. Senate rejected this ambitious proposal.
What is joining the League of Nations?
500
This state became the first to allow women the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?
500
This country was being sent a message from Germany; however, the intercepted message pushed the U.S. into WWI.
Who is Mexico?