Civil War/ Reconstruction
Industrialism
Imperialism
WWI
Boom and Bust
100
Industrial advantages such as factories, railroads, and supplies allowed this country to win the American Civil War.
What is the Union or United States of America?
100
Gilded means to cover inferior metal in gold. This term was used to describe the Second Industrial Revolution by whom?
Who is Mark Twain?
100
This was built to insure US naval ships would have quick and easy access to the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
This created a list of US men to be used in a draft during a time of war.
What is the Selective Service Act?
100
Relief, Reform, and Recovery were the main goals of this program.
What is the New Deal?
200
These laws were created to reduce the civil rights awarded to freedmen post-Civil War.
What are the Black Codes?
200
With increased nativism in the Gilded Age, workers from this country were completely banned except for business owners or college graduates.
What is China?
200
After months of Yellow Journalism, the explosion of this ship brought the US into the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
200
This gave the right to vote to all US women over the age of 18.
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
Between 1939 and 1941, Europe was at war, but the United States took this official stance.
What is Neutrality?
300
This amendment to the Constitution insured citizenship to all people born within the boarders of the United States
What is 14th Amendment?
300
Social Darwinism reinforced the superiority of robber barons over this social class.
Who is the lower class or poor?
300
Gaining colonies such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and ____________ after the Spanish-American War grew the US economy.
What is the Philippines?
300
During WWI, minority men were allowed to serve in the military, but were required to be in ___________ units.
What are segregated units?
300
This program gave pensions to retirees.
What is Social Security?
400
Groups of southern planters (especially freedmen) were forced into a continuing cycle of expanding poverty under this system.
What is sharecropping?
400
Industrialization grew factories which led to labor unions, and eventually the creation of a strong ___________ class in the United States.
What is the middle class?
400
The Monroe Doctrine was a promise of US action against any European attempt to colonize the Americas further. This was the addition made in 1904 insured US involved in American countries.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
400
The Treaty of Versailles (1918) created a League of Nations by President Wilson, but this branch of government did not approve the US entry into the union.
What is the Legislative Branch?
400
The Bolshevik Revolution led to this time period in US history that was known for its mistrust of any immigrant or material that came from Eastern Europe.
What is the Red Scare?
500
The election of 1876 brought in President Rutherford B. Hayes, but ended this government movement.
What is the Reconstruction of the South?
500
This was the first third party political movement in the US. They wanted more government regulation and silver-backed currency.
What is Populism?
500
Instead of using a Sphere of Influence in China, the US created this program with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
500
The Zimmerman Telegram (Note) and unrestricted submarine warfare led to the sinking of this ship and the US entering into WWI.
What is the Lusitania?
500
US leaders thought this would reduce the threat of war by limiting the size of countries' military. The US ignored it and kept many ships in the Pacific Ocean region.
What is the Washington Naval Conference?