Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Growing World Power
1920-1939
WWII
Cold War
Civil Rights
1970s
Civil Rights, Reconstruction and Western Expansion
100

Mark Twain coined the term_________, a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath. (hint: its what period/era we are studying)

What is the Gilded Age?

100

This Amendment allowed woman's suffrage.

19th Amendment

100

Cuba gained independence from this country after the Spanish American War

What is Spain?

100

During the 1920s and for the first time in America, more people lived in_______ rather than rural areas.

What is Cities?

100

What country signed a non-aggression pact with Germany?

Who is the Soviet Union?

100

The Truman Doctrine and the policy of ______established the strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders.

What is Containment?

100

The youngest person even elected president of the United States

Who is John F. Kennedy?

100

Building in Washington D.C. that was the Democrat Headquarters for the 1972 election.

What is Watergate?

100

Discovery of Gold, the Homestead Act, Manifest Destiny, and the Transcontinental Railroad led Americans to expand ________ which then led to a decrease in the population of the ______, which then led to Native Indians being placed in Reservation Systems and being Americanized with the Dawes Act.

Expand West 

 Buffalo

200

What was the name of the man, who used a mafia like group called Tammany hall, that used bribery and voter fraud to take advantage of immigrants and corrupt officials in government?

Who is Boss Tweed?

200

Encouraged African Americans to learn a skill or trade and get employed or start their own business. Said that Jim Crow laws would eventually end

Booker T. Washington

200

The explosion of what was a cause of Spanish-American War

What is USS Maine?

200

Those looking to get rich quick invested in the_________. However, once businesses start to fail and banks begin to close, this crashes in 1929.

What is the Stock Market?


200

Where was the American fleet anchored on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked?

What is Pearl Harbor?

200

This war started when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950.

What is The Korean War?

200

Movement which called for African American power and independence

What is the Black Power Movement?

200

A war between the Communist armies of N. Vietnam and Non-communist armies of S. Vietnam.

What is Vietnam War?

200

After Reconstruction Radical Republicans tried to help Freedmen by creating the _________ Bureau and Jim Crow Laws, ________ Codes and __________-______ debt peonage kept Freedmen in constant servitude. And Plessy vs. Ferguson kept caucasian and African Americans separate. 

Freedmen's Bureau

Black Codes 

Share-Cropping Debt Peonage

300

Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States?

What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?

300

is favoring people native to that land rather than those that have immigrated.

Nativism

300

At the end of WWI, he created the idea of an international organization to settle international disputes

Who is Woodrow Wilson?

300

Many people were laid off (lost their job) and were not able to afford goods during the Depression. So, many people looked to start buying things on______, or buy now and pay later.

What is Credit?

300

What was the name given to the African-American fighter pilots?

Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?

300

This European nation was divided immediately after WWII and was later reunited in 1990.

What is Germany?

300

A Hispanic activist who worked to improve economic opportunities

Who is Cesar Chavez?

300

The U.S. relied on this organization for oil beginning in the early 1970s.

What is OPEC?

300

What are the amendments that made Slavery illegal (Freed Slaves)--Gave them Citizenships---Allowed African Americans to Vote

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment

400

These newspaper drawings helped bring down the infamous political machine known as Tammany Hall, as well as shed light on issues within our country/government.

What are political cartoons?

400

President that regulated "Trusts" known as "trust-buster" and Rough Rider

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

400

The sinking of this ship was a reason US became involved in WWI

What is the Lusitania?

400

Prohibition ended with the passage of the_______ amendment.

What is the 21st Amendment?

400

A bomb that gets its violent power from splitting an atom

What is an Atomic Bomb?

400

The line between North Korea and South Korea is called ___________.  It is also the location of the DMZ (demilitarized zone).

What is the 38th parallel?

400

The ruling in this Supreme Court case made segregation in public schools illegal

What is Brown Vs. The Board of Education?

400

What was a major result of the Watergate controversy?

What is the resignation of Nixon?

400

____________ plan suffocated the South out of resources by taking over the Mississippi River and Southern Ports and helping the North who wanted to Free the Slaves win the War against the South who wanted to keep Slavery.

Anaconda Plan

500

JP Morgan controlled the_________ industry; Rockfeller controlled the___________ industry; and Carnegie controlled the_________ industry.

What is Banking (Morgan); Oil (Rockefeller), Steel (Carnegie)?

500

Exposed the horrible conditions of the meatpacking industry and wrote The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

500

The purpose of the Roosevelt Corollary was to promote this

What is Big Stick Diplomacy?

500

This writer named Scott Fitzgerald first coined the term the "______ Age" to describe the 1920s

What is the Jazz Age?

500

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower led an Allied attack on German -controlled France

What is Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)?

500

This multinational military organization was created for the purpose of mutual defense and collective security for the western nations.

What is NATO?

500

Nation of Islam leader who argued that integration would never solve African Americans' problems

Who is Malcolm X?

500

This was granted by Ford to Nixon and caused a great deal of controversy.

What is a pardon?

500

Sectionalism: The US was divided into sections that had their own interest. Describe types economy each section had. 

North: _________ economy. No Need for Slaves.

South: _________economy. Needed free labor. (Slavery)

Industria/Factories 

Agriculture

600

This Act the government trying to control business between states and was initially ineffective.

What is the Interstate Commerce Act

600

Establish the Hull House in Chicago to help poor immigrant families. Mother of Social Work

Jane Adams

600

This weapon changed the way that WWI  was fought. Prior to this creation wars were fought by soldiers charging each other on the battlefield.

What is the Machine gun.

600

The literary and artistic revival in the African American community was called the ______.

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

600

Under this program the U.S. was able to help the Allies by providing supplies.

*hint, you had to write a speech advocating for or against it*

What is Lend and lease?

600

North Vietnam won the war, the US had to withdraw, and the Peninsula was united under communism.

What is How the Vietnam War ended?

600

Gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans' voting rights

What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

600

Lowering the speed limit to 55 mph was a consequence of ______________.

What is oil embargo/need for conservation/reduce oil consumption?

600

What is the abolitionist movement?

Movement of people that wanted to get rid of or abolish slavery