CIVIL WAR, RECONSTRUCTION, WESTWARD EXPANSION
This loyalty to one’s region instead of the whole country helped cause the Civil War.
What is sectionalism?
This process made steel production faster and cheaper during industrialization.
What is the Bessemer Process?
These investigative journalists exposed corruption during the Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers?
This decade was known for jazz, consumer culture, and economic growth.
What are the Roaring Twenties?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This oil tycoon created Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This event on October 29, 1929 helped trigger the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday / the Stock Market Crash?
This airlift supplied West Berlin after the Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This law gave settlers 160 acres of land if they farmed it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This labor organization founded by Samuel Gompers focused on skilled workers.
What is the AFL (AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR)
This war in 1898 made the U.S. a world power and gained Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This New Deal program gave retirement pensions and unemployment insurance.
What is Social Security?
This Supreme Court case declared school segregation unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Supreme Court case ruled African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This New York immigration station processed millions of European immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
This telegram promised Mexico land if it joined Germany against the U.S.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This surprise attack brought the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This incident gave President Johnson authority to escalate the Vietnam War.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident / Resolution?
This period after the Civil War attempted to rebuild the South and redefine freedom.
What is Reconstruction?
This corrupt political machine was led by Boss Tweed in New York City.
What is Tammany Hall?
This Progressive president was known as the “trust-buster.”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This order forced Japanese Americans into internment camps during WWII.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This program by Lyndon B. Johnson sought to eliminate poverty and promote equality.
What is the Great Society?