Westward Expansion/Gilded Age
Progressive Era/Imperialism
WWI
Roaring 20's/Great Depression
Misc.
100

Law that provided Americans with 160 acres of cheap land provided that they farm it within 5 years

Homestead Act

100

Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Ida B. Wells

Muckrakers
100

4 main causes of WWI

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

100

18th Amendment

Prohibition

100

Law that sent Mexican immigrants back to Mexico during the 1930's due to lack of jobs

Mexican Repatriation Act

200

Form of transportation that connected the East and West coasts and improved Americans standard of living by helping them receive new products

Transcontinental Railroad

200

Book that led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act

The Jungle

200

What the United States was prior to joining WWI?

Neutral
200

19th Amendment 

Women's right to vote

200

Black Tuesday

Day that the stock market crashed

300

Law that tried to Americanize Native Americans by splitting up reservations and providing them with Private Property

Dawes Act

300

Law that broke up Monopolies 

Sherman Anti-Trust Act


300

Reasons for US Joining WWI (2 reasons)

1. Sinking of the Lusitania

2. Zimmerman Telegram

300

Government was against communism

Red Scare

300
Robber Baron/Philanthropist who wrote the Gospel of Wealth and was the monopolist of the Steel Industry

Andrew Carnegie

400

Gold Rush in Alaska. Made difficult by harsh weather conditions and mountains

Klondike Gold Rush

400

War caused by the sinking of the USS Maine, Yellow Journalism, and the De Lome Letter

Spanish-American War

400

Turning point of WWI (battle led by John Pershing's American Expeditionary Force)

Battle of Argonne Forest

400
1. High Tariffs 2. Stock Market Speculation 3. Overproduction 4. Bad Banking

Causes of the Great Depression

400

Place in New York City that made sheet music available to the public

Tin Pan Alley

500

Steel Plow, Barbed Wire

Technology for farming

500

Reduced time for ships to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans

Panama Canal

500
Organization that the United States refused to join after WWI (due to wanting to be isolated)

League of Nations

500

Civilian Conservation Corps., Works Progress Administration, FDIC, SEC, Social Security Administration

FDR New Deal Programs

500

Law that allowed the government to regulate the railroads

Interstate Commerce Act