Progressive Era
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
This 1862 federal law granted 160 acres to settlers to encourage westward migration.
What is the Homestead Act?
The 1898 conflict that resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish–American War (1898)?
Popular style and cultural symbol of young, liberated women in the 1920s.
What is Flapper?
The telegram that proposed a German–Mexican alliance and helped push the U.S. to enter WWI.
What is Zimmermann Telegram?
Name the muckraking novel that exposed unsafe conditions in the meatpacking industry and helped inspire federal food inspection laws.
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
This railroad, completed in 1869, connected the East and West coasts and accelerated settlement of the Great Plains.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This U.S. strategic project, completed in 1914, shortened travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Panama Canal?
This 1925 trial highlighted the conflict between evolution and creationism in public schools. Name the teacher on trial.
Who is John T. Scopes (teacher) — Scopes Trial?
This campaign (battle) was a major offensive in 1918 that helped bring about the armistice; American forces played a key role.
What is Battle of Argonne Forest (Meuse-Argonne Offensive)?
This Progressive Era law created a federal agency that inspects meatpacking plants and enforces cleanliness standards.
Meat Inspection Act
This 1887 act attempted to assimilate Plains Indians by breaking up tribal lands into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
Name the U.S. policy that promoted equal trading rights in China for all nations.
What is Open Door Policy?
Name one cultural movement that celebrated Black art, music, and literature in the 1920s.
What is Harlem Renaissance?
Name the U.S. general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
Who is John J. Pershing?
Name the three direct-democracy reforms (implemented at state/local level) that expanded voter power during the Progressive Era.
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Name two major effects of rapid westward expansion on Native American populations. (List two distinct effects.)
What is Forced relocation to reservations; destruction of buffalo and loss of traditional livelihoods / cultural assimilation policies?
Identify two territories the United States gained or controlled as a result of the Spanish–American War.
What is Puerto Rico and the Philippines (also Guam)?
Identify the 1920s scandal involving illegal leasing of federal oil reserves that damaged a presidential administration.
What is Teapot Dome Scandal?
List two ways the U.S. mobilized its economy or society for World War I (give two examples).
War bonds; Selective Service Act (draft); Espionage/Sedition Acts; conversion of factories to wartime production
Identify the major banking reform that created a centralized system to control the money supply and influence interest rates (established during the Progressive Era/early 20th century).
Federal Reserve Act
Explain how barbed wire and the Bessemer process each affected economic or social life in the West.
Barbed wire ended open-range cattle drives and fenced land; Bessemer process lowered steel costs enabling railroad expansion and skyscrapers.
Explain one long-term political or economic effect of American imperialism on an acquired territory.
U.S. control over the Philippines led to economic integration with U.S. markets and later conflict (Philippine–American War and long-term political influence)
Explain how mass production (assembly line) and radio contributed to cultural changes in the 1920s (give two specific effects).
Assembly line made consumer goods (cars) affordable and expanded mass consumption; radio spread shared culture, news, and entertainment nationwide.
Summarize Woodrow Wilson’s plan for postwar peace known as the Fourteen Points (name two key principles)
Examples: self-determination for nations, open diplomacy, League of Nations, freedom of the seas, arms reduction (any two)