Gilded Age/Progressive Era
This oil magnate founded Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This Caribbean island became a U.S. territory after 1898
What is Puerto Rico?
This amendment prohibited alcohol.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition)?
This plan provided economic aid to rebuild Europe after the war.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This crisis brought the U.S. and USSR closest to nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This novel by Upton Sinclair exposed conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
This policy sought equal trading rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This act created old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
This operation opened a Western Front in Europe.
What is D-Day (Operation Overlord)?
This case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson in public education
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1890 law sought to limit monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This law punished criticism of the government during wartime.
What is the Sedition Act (or Espionage and Sedition Acts)?
This trial symbolized tensions between modernism and fundamentalism
What is the Scopes Trial?
This court case focused on the issue of relocating Japanese Americans during WWII.
What is Korematsu v. U.S.?
This agreement reflected détente between the U.S. and USSR.
What are the SALT agreements (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)?
This amendment established the direct election of senators.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
This speech outlined Wilson's vision for peace.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This immigration law established national origins quotas.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924 (National Origins Act)?
This conference planned the postwar world and the United Nations
What is the Yalta Conference?
This legislation outlawed segregation in public accommodations
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This labor union welcomed both skilled and unskilled workers.
What is the Knights of Labor?
This amendment limited Cuban sovereignty after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This critic proposed a Share Our Wealth program.
Who is Huey Long?
This order authorized Japanese American internment
What is Executive Order 9066?
This movement helped reshape Republican politics in the late 20th century.
What is the New Right (Conservative Movement)?