Gilded Age
This robber baron made his money through monopolizing the oil industry
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This philosophy stated wealth and poverty were a natural result of "survival of the fittest"
What is Social Darwinism?
this sensationalist style of newspaper reporting helped inflame American public opinion and push the U.S. toward the Spanish-American War in 1898
What is yellow journalism?
The assassination of this Austro-Hungarian Archduke in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist in June 1914 provided the immediate spark for the outbreak of World War I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
Opening in 1925 as the WSM Barn Dance, this Nashville institution is the world's longest continuously running live radio show and the undisputed home of country music.
What is the Grand Ole Opry?
This 1930s environmental and economic disaster, centered in the Great Plains, was caused by a combination of severe drought, high winds, and the farming practice of stripping the land of its native prairie grass.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This attack by the Japanese on American soil led to the United States' officially entry into WWII
This was a series of proxy wars fought between the United States and the Soviet Union? Including the Korean and Vietnam War
What is the Cold War?
This term defines the idea of American life during the Cold War
What is conformity?
This court case led to the integration of public schools
What is Brown v Board of Education?
This 1960s movement, centered in Haight-Ashbury, rejected mainstream society by embracing communal living, psychedelic drugs, and a radical freedom
What is the Counterculture (or the Hippie Movement?)
This president was forced to resign after a scandal that would have had his removed from office
Who is President Nixon?
This man helped to create the first light bulb in history
Who is Thomas Edison?
This man was born free and would go on to help establish the NAACP
Who is WEB DuBois
The foreign policy motto "Speak softly and carry a big stick" is most closely associated with this President, who used it to justify U.S. intervention in the Caribbean and the building of the Panama Canal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This style of warfare included a desolate area that was heavily bombed and separated both sides during WWI. Many soldiers would suffer from trench foot
What is trench warfare?
This amendment led to the banning of alcohol and the rise of gangsters like Al Capone
Enacted in 1930, this high protective tariff was intended to boost American agriculture and industry but instead triggered retaliatory tariffs from other nations, severely worsening the Great Depression by choking off international trade.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
In this 1944 Supreme Court case, the majority decision upheld the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment of Japanese Americans, citing "military urgency."
What is Korematsu v US?
Announced in 1947, this U.S. foreign policy committed the country to providing political, military, and economic aid to democratic nations like Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of Communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This genre of music, popularized by artists like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry, became the defining sound of the 1950s youth, challenging traditional social and cultural norms.
What is Rock n Roll?
The brutal 1955 murder of this 14-year-old Chicago boy in Mississippi, and the subsequent acquittal of his white murderers, galvanized the emerging Civil Rights Movement and brought national attention to racial terrorism in the South.
Who is Emmett Till?
What is the 26th amendment?
This terrorist attack led to the passing of this piece of legislation that would allow the federal government to deny rights to people suspected of terrorism?
What is the Patriot Act?
These two places on opposite sides of the United States were used as immigration stations. What is the name of each place and where are they located
Where are Angel Island in San Francisco and Ellis Island in New York
This movement was led by farmers and successful in lobbying midwestern states to pass laws regulating the railroad rates
What is the Granger movement?
This popular nickname was given to those Americans, often progressives and Democrats like William Jennings Bryan, who opposed the acquisition of territories like the Philippines, arguing it betrayed American ideals.
What is an Anti-Imperialist?
In 1917, this message intercepted by the British proposed a German-Mexican alliance, offering to help Mexico reclaim Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the U.S. entered WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Driven by Jim Crow laws and the promise of industrial jobs, this period saw more than six million African Americans move from the rural South to cities in the North and West between 1916 and 1970.
What is the Great Migration?
These sprawling, makeshift shantytown communities, often built out of cardboard and scrap wood on the outskirts of American cities, became the physical symbol of the widespread poverty and homelessness during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
This form of government, exemplified by leaders like Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini, is characterized by a single ruling party, total control over all aspects of public and private life, and the suppression of all opposition.
What is Totalitarianism?
Constructed in August 1961, this barrier was erected by East Germany primarily to stop its citizens from doing this, which was viewed as a brain drain by the Soviet bloc. Was seen as a physical symbol of the Cold War
What is the Berlin Wall?
this 1956 act created the largest public works project in U.S. history, primarily for military mobility and civil defense.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
In 1956, this Tennessee town became the site of a major crisis when 12 African American students, known as the "Clinton 12," first attempted to integrate its high school under court order, leading to riots and federal intervention.
Where is Clinton, TN?
President Lyndon B. Johnson's ambitious domestic agenda, known by this name, aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice through extensive legislation
What is the Great Society?
This 1978 diplomatic achievement, brokered by President Carter at Camp David, resulted in a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, marking the first time an Arab nation formally recognized the Jewish state.
What are the Camp David Accords?
This back door compromise for the 1876 election led to...
What is the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow in the South
This is the reason why Tennessee is called the "Perfect 36"
What is the passing of the 19th amendment?
this Woodrow Wilson-era policy required that a foreign government be stable, constitutional, and democratic to receive U.S. diplomatic recognition and support.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
Originally a pacifist, this decorated Tennessee soldier captured 132 German soldiers single-handedly during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and later became the subject of a 1941 film.
Who is Alvin C. York?
This payment method, which allowed consumers to purchase cars, radios, and other goods by making small weekly or monthly payments, helped fuel the economic boom of the Roaring Twenties.
What is credit?
Fueled by speculation and margin buying, this catastrophic event on October 29, 1929, saw the loss of over $14 billion in paper value, effectively ending the Roaring Twenties and initiating the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
This enormous, secret facility in Tennessee was the primary site for the development of electromagnetic and gaseous diffusion methods for the atomic bomb.
What is Oak Ridge, TN?
The Soviet launch of this small, basketball-sized satellite on October 4, 1957, initiated the Space Race and caused widespread anxiety in the United States over being surpassed technologically.
What is Sputnik?
This 1961 program, proposed by President Kennedy, focused on domestic initiatives like education and health care, but is best remembered for prioritizing the successful pursuit of the space race and landing a man on the Moon.
What is the New Frontier?
This 1965 act, spurred by events in Selma, Alabama, outlawed discriminatory practices like literacy tests and established the federal power of "preclearance" over jurisdictions with histories of voter suppression.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This political scandal, which began with a 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 after the discovery of secret White House recordings.
What is Watergate?
President Clinton signed the implementation act for this 1994 trade agreement with Canada and Mexico on December 8, 1993, calling it a force for economic growth.
What is NAFTA?
This policy led to the breaking up of native lands and forced assimilation of Native American children
What is the Dawes Act?
What law was passed as a result of Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle"?
What is the Meat Inspection Act (will also accept the Pure Food and Drug Act)
This addition to the Monroe Doctrine claimed the right for the U.S. to act as an "international police power" in the Western Hemisphere, justifying military intervention in Latin American countries.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Passed in 1917, this federal act criminalized interfering with military operations, supporting U.S. enemies, and especially mailing materials deemed treasonous, seditious, or disloyal.
What is the Espionage Act?
This 1924 act established a permanent, highly restrictive system that calculated immigration quotas based on two percent of each nationality's population in the U.S. according to the 1890 census.
What is the National Origins Act of 1924?
Created in 1933, this massive public works project built dozens of dams to control flooding and generate hydroelectric power, dramatically modernizing one of the nation's poorest and most rural regions.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This World War II campaign, being fought by groups such as the Tuskegee Airmen, urged African Americans to fight for a double victory: over fascism abroad and over racism and discrimination at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
Held in July 1945, this final wartime conference among the "Big Three" failed to resolve major disagreements over the future of Eastern Europe and the occupation of Germany, solidifying the divide that would lead to this post-war conflict.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
This government program, which guaranteed low-interest, low-down-payment home loans to returning WWII veterans, was a key factor that made single-family suburban homeownership accessible to millions of middle-class Americans.
What is the GI Bill?
This social movement, which emerged partly from the Civil Rights struggle, gained momentum in the 1960s with Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and advocated for equal pay, reproductive rights, and gender equality.
What is the Women's Liberation Movement (Second-Wave Feminism)?
Fueled by white flight to the suburbs and the availability of new federally-backed mortgages, this social trend resulted in a sharp increase in residential segregation between white and non-white populations in metropolitan areas.
What is White Flight?
This economic policy, championed by President Reagan, focused on cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, increasing military spending, and reducing government regulation, often referred to as "supply-side" economics.
What is Reaganomics? (Trickle down theory)