Westward Expansion
What law gave settlers 160 acres of land if they farmed it for 5 years?
Homestead Act
What industry did Andrew Carnegie dominate?
Steel
Who exposed the meatpacking industry in *The Jungle*?
Upton Sinclair
The 1898 explosion of this U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor helped spark what war?
Spanish-American War
What event sparked WWI in 1914?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What illegal activity flourished during Prohibition?
Bootlegging
What country are the following leaders over(Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo)?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
What economic system did the U.S. oppose during the Cold War?
Communism
Who gave the “I Have a Dream” speech?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was president during 9/11?
George W. Bush
Completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, this development connected the East and West coasts by rail.
Transcontinental Railroad
What process made steel faster and cheaper to produce?
Bessemer Process
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
What territory did the U.S. annex in 1898 that later became a state?
Hawaii
What was the U.S. position at the start of WWI?
Neutrality
What movement celebrated Black culture in NYC?
Harlem Renaissance
What event brought the U.S. into WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
What was the imaginary line dividing communist and democratic Europe?
Iron Curtain
What Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools?
Brown v. Board of Education
What hurricane devastated New Orleans in 2005?
Hurricane Katrina
What was the name of the forced removal of Native Americans from the Southeast? (Hint Trail ** *****)
Trail of Tears
What term describes a business with complete control over a market?
Monopoly
What president was known as a 'trust buster'?
Theodore Roosevelt
What policy promoted U.S. trade with China?
Open Door Policy
What note from Germany to Mexico pushed the U.S. into war?
Zimmermann Telegram
What stock market event triggered the Great Depression?
Crash of 1929
What was the code name for the D-Day invasion?
Operation Overlord
What crisis nearly led to nuclear war in 1962?
Cuban Missile Crisis
What protest used bus rides to challenge segregation?
Freedom Rides
Who was the first African American president?
Barack Obama
Which U.S. belief justified taking land coast to coast?
Manifest Destiny
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
This 1906 law was passed after Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Meat Inspection Act
What U.S.-built structure shortened travel from Atlantic to Pacific?
Panama Canal
What treaty ended WWI and punished Germany?
Treaty of Versailles
What were makeshift homeless camps during the Depression called?
Hoovervilles
What program helped the U.S. supply Allies before joining the war?
Lend-Lease Act
What policy aimed to stop the spread of communism?
Containment
What 1964 law banned discrimination in public places?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters led to the resignation of President Nixon.
Watergate scandal
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States and set the stage for westward expansion
Louisiana Purchase
What law tried to stop monopolies in 1890?
Sherman Antitrust Act
This term, coined by Theodore Roosevelt, referred to journalists who exposed corruption and social injustices during the Progressive Era.
Muckraker
What Roosevelt policy emphasized military strength in Latin America?
Big Stick Diplomacy (Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine).
What international peace group did Wilson propose?
League of Nations
What New Deal program gave jobs building roads and parks?
Civilian Conservation Corps – CCC
What was the secret project to build the atomic bomb?
Manhattan Project
What wall symbolized Cold War tensions in Germany?
Berlin Wall
Who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery?
Rosa Parks
This 1991 military operation, led by the United States, aimed to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait after their 1990 invasion.
Operation Desert Storm