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Late 19th Century
Progressivism
Imperialism & World War I
Roaring Twenties, Great Depression & New Deal
World War II
100
European immigrants settled in cities on the east coast because jobs in these were available.
What are factories?
100
This book led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act.
What is The Jungle?
100
This was sent by Germany to Mexico to try to get Mexico to start a war with the U.S.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
100
This was a flourishing of African-American art and culture in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
100
She was the symbol of women working in factories.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
200
This law banned immigration from one Asian nation for 61 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
This type of news reporting helped lead to the Spanish-American War?
What is yellow journalism?
200
This region of farmland was destroyed by a major drought in the 1930s.
What is the dust bowl?
200
This is the original name of the agency created to transition the U.S. economy from peacetime to wartime.
What is the War Industries Board?
300
This name was used to describe business leaders who played dirty to get rich.
What is robber baron?
300
This muckraker wrote about the urban poor in his book How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
300
This was Woodrow Wilson's plan for lasting peace after World War I?
What is the Fourteen Points?
300
These New Deal programs helped people who were unemployed by giving them jobs.
What are the CCC and the WPA?
300
This event finally drew the U.S. into World War II?
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
400
Henry Ford and others used this technique to produce goods more cost effectively.
What is the assembly line?
400
This president was famous for being a trustbuster.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
This Supreme Court ruling said it was okay to limit freedom of speech and other individual rights when the country faced "clear and present danger."
What is Schenck v. United States?
400
This event brought a conflict between science and religion to national attention.
What is the Scopes trial?
400
Japanese Americans were put into these during World War II.
What are internment camps?
500
This politician gave his famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1896.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
This tragic event focused national attention on workplace safety.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
500
This foreign policy said the U.S. had the right to intervene in the affairs of Latin Americans countries who had conflicts with European nations.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
500
Development of new consumer goods led to rapid economic growth during this decade.
What is the Roaring Twenties?
500
This law allowed the U.S. to sell war goods to Great Britain, even if Great Britain could not pay up front.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?