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People came for a fresh start. (Political, Religious, Financial)
What is how social and political unrest as well as religious freedom contributed to immigration
100
Built to connect Pacific and Atlantic Goethals (engineer) Roosevelt President Yellow Fever Ahead of schedule Below budget
What is the Panama Canal
100
Devotion to one’s country
What is nationalism
100
Jonas Salk-Polio Vaccine, Penicillin & other antibiotics, heart surgery
What is Medical Advances of 1950’s
100
Amazon.com founder
Who is Jeff Bezos
200
Not speaking English and living in Ethnic Islands/pockets where everyone was from the same country or spoke the same language called ghettoes
What is language barriers immigrants faced
200
Sensational news coverage emphasizing crime and scandal
What is Yellow Journalism
200
Hostility or discrimination against
What is Anti-Semitism
200
Construction in the 1950’s Ordered by Eisenhower to provide better, quicker transportation Secretly to move weapons
What is the Interstate Highway System
200
Judge that made deals with Watergate
Who is John Birica
300
Tenements
What is the type of housing most immigrants lived in
300
Movement to give women the right to vote
What is Women’s Suffrage
300
Makeshift homeless shelters during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles
300
Korea Vietnam Cuba East & West Germany
What is U.S. containment policies
300
Worked for Nixon ; burglary conspiracy ; wire tapping ; 33 months in prison
Who is Howard Hunt
400
They were unhappy with it, but especially Asian immigration
What is the Nativists reaction to immigration
400
Food and Drug Administration Required labeling of ingredients, strict sanitary practices, and rating system for meats
What is the FDA
400
Group of WW1 Veterans and their families who protested in Washington, D.C. (1932) demanding immediate payment of a pension bonus
What is the Bonus Army
400
Described Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Anti- Communist smear tactics
What is McCarthyism
400
Washington Post writers that broke the Watergate Scandal
Who is Woodward & Burstein
500
Drills, dynamite, hydraulic, pumps, etc.
What is mining advancements in the late 1800’s
500
Citizens can put a proposed law directly on the ballot in the next election with petition signatures
What is an Initiative
500
People moved to find work All economies were connected because of trade
What is migrations and worldwide depression
500
Encouraged in the 1950’s Blending in and following main stream society
What is Conformity
500
Lead burglary at hotel ; 1972 DWC ; 1st convicted
Who is James McCord