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It's Called "Progress"
Increasing the American Footprint
Battle Stations!
Happy Days Are
Here Again?
Are You Depressed?
100
After nearly 50 years of struggle, the _________________ gave women the right to vote throughout the country. Ironically, despite women leading a vocal charge against ____________________, the __________________ was made into law first.
What are the 19th Amendment, prohibition, and the 18th Amendment?
100
This Pacific area was a critical waystation for US-Asian trade routes. It was annexed into the US in 1893.
What is Hawaii?
100
This president wanted to maintain a position of neutrality at the dawn of WWI.
Who is Wilson?
100
In the aftermath of WWI, name three factors that led to a brief economic recession.
What are: return of veterans to civilian life increased job competition and unemployment the removal of wartime price controls led to inflation in all sectors housing shortages decline in farm income legislatures passing laws to deny women work in their war-time positions. labor strikes and unrest
100
After nearly a decade of American prosperity, this 1929 event precipitated the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash? Also acceptable: What is Black Tuesday?
200
In 1910, this person along with Jane Addams, founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
200
This "ism" was the belief that U.S. security required a strong navy and economic and territorial expansion.
What is Mahanism?
200
The U.S. government financed the war through these three ways.
What are borrowing money, selling Liberty bonds, and raising taxes.
200
While the automotive industry flourished and attracted many southern blacks to northern cities for improved wages in what is called the ____________________, this other larger industry also flourished during the early part of the 20th century and helped spread the influence of ________.
What are the Great Migration, entertainment industry (or broadcasting/motion picture industries), Jazz.
200
Name three of the five factors of the Great Depression.
What are: Unequal distribution of wealth and income. Domination of American economy by oligopolies. Weaknesses in important industries. International economic problems/lack of international cash flow. Faulty government policies.
300
This act indirectly prohibited child labor.
What is the Keating-Owen Act (1916)?
300
These are two examples of America's increasing footprint in Latin America: The _____________________, which began in 1895 in part with the Cuban Revolution and ended in 1899 with the ratification of the Treaty of Paris Armistice and _______________________ becoming a U.S. protectorate in 1904 and remaining so until 1939, during which time, the ______________________ (a decade-long project) was completed representing increased American authority in the Caribbean.
What are the Spanish-American War, Panama and the Panama Canal?
300
The U.S. government instituted these five wartime government agencies.
What are the War Industries Board (WIB), Railroad Administration, Food Administration, National War Labor Board, and Committee on Public Information?
300
A rising middle class and increased national prosperity led to this type of "ism" during the 1920s.
What is "consumerism"?
300
This is the name given to the environmental catastrophe that affected much of the Great Plains from Texas to the Dakotas.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
This type of reform was an offshoot of the interest in prohibiting or restricting child labor.
What is educational reform?
400
BONUS QUESTION!!! The Treaty of Paris had opposition in the US and abroad. In the US, the ____________________ was central to campaign against the Treaty of Paris and saw the treaty as a repudiation of American moral and political traditions. Many objected to expansion on racist grounds. In _____________________, the people viewed it as unfair, leading to several years of a bloody war.
What are the Anti-Imperialist League, and the Philippines?
400
This 1918 act was a broad law that restricted criticism of America's involvement in World War I or its government, flag, military, taxes, or officials. It led to the Post-Master General banning antiwar or radical newspapers and magazines from the mail and was the first wave of targeting _________________, and included intelligence and espionage, wiretapping and bugging and other forms of monitoring and surveillance.
What are the Sedition Act and radicals (or "enemy sympathizers")?
400
BONUS QUESTION!!!! Largely still marginalized, Blacks and Hispanics were active in community improvement and self empowerment in post-war America. _____________________, developed & organized ______________________, which rejected the NAACP’s goal of integration and this group, the ____________________________ campaigned against inequities in schools and the jury system helping to launch ____________________, which would help advance civil rights for all Americans.
What are Marcus Garvey, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), La Orden de Hijos de America (“The Order of the Sons of America”), and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
400
These three New Deal acts directly addressed issues in the financial sector.
What are the Emergency Banking Act, Securities Act, and Glass-Steagall Act?
500
These two types of business activities led to the need for monitoring, prompting Congress to establish ______________ to oversee business activities.
What are mergers, acquisitions, and the Federal Trade Commission Act (1914) or FTC?
500
After much lobbying by American business interests, in 1899, the US and ____________ worked out an ___________________ which became a central doctrine of American foreign policy. Russia & Japan rejected the concept because they saw it as favoring American interests over their own.
What are China and Open Door Policy?
500
Although Congress never ratified it, this was the result of the armistice between the Central Powers and the Allies.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
500
During the 1920s, the nation more than doubled its capacity to generate _________________, decade, further bolstering the economy. Yet despite the appearance of prosperity, these three industries were failing and dragged on the nation's economy.
What are electricity, coal mining, textiles and agriculture?
500
These three New Deal acts along with this program directly addressed unemployment.
What are the National Industrial Recovery Act, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, the Wagner-Peyser Act and the Works Progress Administration (WPA).