1920s
Western Expansion
Gilded Age
1930s
WWII
Progressive Era
Imperialism
Cold War
100
This Amendment led to the rise of organized crime
What is the 18th Amendment
100
Promised settlers 160 acres for free if they farmed it for five years.
What is The Homestead Act?
100
Located in New York Harbor, it was the main point of entry into the U.S. for immigrants (mainly from Europe) from 1892 to 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
100
The President who created the New Deal
FDR
100
The event that directly led the U.S. to enter WWII.
Peral Harbor
100
The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were passed by Congress after President Roosevelt read_________ by ________
What is THE JUNGLE by UPTON SINCLAIR?
100
American naval vessel that was sunk by the Spanish in Havana Harbor Cuba; started the Spanish American War.
What is USS Maine?
100
This alliance committed the U.S. to defend Western Europe.
NATO
200
The fear of communism and led to restrictions on immigration in the 1920s
Red Scare
200
Changed life on the Great Plains by fencing off land which impacted the nomadic life of the Plains Indians.
What is Barbed Wire?
200
Reduced the cost of making steel by more than 80% while also making it stronger and more durable.
What is Bessemer Process?
200
The nickname for shantytowns that emerged during the Great Depression.
Hoovervilles
200
The U.S. response act that allowed sending weapons to Allied nations before joining the war.
Lend-Lease Act
200
Journalists, photographers and authors who published their work in order to raise awareness of social issues and injustices.
What is a muckraker?
200
This type of journalism exaggerated stories to push the U.S. toward war.
What is Yellow Journalism?
200
This theory U.S. belief justified intervention worldwide to stop communism’s spread. If one country falls they would all fall to communism
Domino Theory
300
This trial was a conflict between science (evolution) and religion
Scopes Monkey Trial
300
This movement was formed by farmers to fight unfair railroad rates and improve their economic conditions
The Grange
300
Thomas Edison invented ________
Henry Ford invented _____
What is Light Bulb?
What is Model T
300
The environmental disaster that forced many farmers to migrate westward.
Dust Bowl
300
Name the 2 dictators of the axis powers in WWII
Adolf Hitler-Germany
Benito Mussolini- Italy
300
This amendment provided for the direct election of Senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
300
These territories were gained by the U.S. after the war.
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
300
This policy under Richard Nixon aimed to relax improve relations with China and the USSR
détente
400
This man used the assembly line to have mass production and expand his business
Henry Ford
400
Threatened the survival of Indian culture.
A law that let the federal government divide up reservations (land that belonged to Native American tribes), and give pieces of them to individual Native Americans instead.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
This law was the first federal attempt to regulate monopolies.
Sherman Anti-Trust
400
What event will end the Great Depression?
The beginning of WWII
400
The project that developed the atomic bomb in the U.S.
Manhattan Project
400
This amendment expanded women’s voting rights.
19th Amendment
400
Built to shorten the distance that ships had to travel to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
This 1989 event symbolized the collapse of Soviet control in Eastern Europe during the Reagan Administration
Fall of the Berlin wall
500
The African American cultural movement in Harlem that leads to Jazz music
Harlem Renaissance
500
This school was created to “Americanize” or assimilate Native American children.
Carlislie Indian School
500
what is the process used by Andrew Carnegie, allowed control over this aspect of production.
Vertical integration
500
What are the three R's in FDR's New Deal
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
500
The name of the day Allied troops invaded Normandy, France.
D-Day
500
This program by Theodore Roosevelt focused on fairness in business and consumer protection. (Double the points) Double Jeopardy
Square Deal
500
This territory was annexed by the U.S. during the war for strategic reasons
Hawaii
500
The Marshall Plan was designed to achieve this broader goal beyond rebuilding Europe.
Stop the spread of Communism
600
The movement of African Americans from the South to the Northern Cities
The Great Migration
600
Transported raw materials used in industrial production, such as coal and iron ore
Were also one of the largest consumers of raw materials in their own
Connected the East Coast with the West Coast
What is the railroad industry?
600
This idea justified limited hands off government interference in business during the Gilded Age
Lassiez-faire
600
The program that established retirement pensions and unemployment benefits.
Social Security
600
This naval battle weakened Japan’s navy in the Pacific. and the turning point for the U.S.
Battle of Midway
600
Laws in the South based on race. They enforced segregation between white people and black people in public places such as schools.
What are Jim Crow laws?
600
A foreign policy statement by Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 that claimed the right of the United States to intervene in the domestic affairs of Western Hemisphere nations to maintain stability.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
600
This agreement symbolized easing tensions and limiting nuclear weapons
SALT 1