Immigration & Expansion
Immigrants who came to the U.S. after the 1880s, mostly from southern and eastern Europe.
Who were the New Immigrants?
The three branches of government.
What are Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
1898 war that began when the U.S. demanded Cuba’s independence from Spain.
What was the Spanish-American War?
Plunge in stock market prices that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What was the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
African American squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Author of The Jungle, exposing unsanitary conditions in meatpacking.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years.
What was the Homestead Act?
Idea that people have the right to create, alter, or abolish their government.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This telegram from Germany to Mexico helped draw the U.S. into World War I.
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
Caused by people rushing to withdraw money, leading to closures and lost savings.
What were Bank Failures?
Native American soldiers who used their language as code in the Pacific.
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
Women working in defense industries during WWII were nicknamed this.
Who was Rosie the Riveter?
This 1882 law severely restricted immigration from Asia, especially targeting one nationality.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
1896 Supreme Court case that legalized segregation as long as facilities were equal.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
Policy proposed by the U.S. in 1899 giving all nations equal trading rights in China.
What was the Open Door Policy?
Roosevelt’s program for getting the U.S. out of the Depression.
What was the New Deal?
Japanese forced 60,000 Americans and Filipinos to march 65 miles with little food or water.
What was the Bataan Death March?
This 1920 amendment gave women the right to vote.
What was the 19th Amendment?
Railroad connecting the east and west coasts of the continental U.S.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
Guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65.
What is the Social Security Act?
FDR’s order requiring relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.
What was Executive Order 9066?
Radio broadcasts done by FDR to uplift Americans during the Depression.
What were Fireside Chats?
Bomb dropped by an American bomber on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What was the Atomic Bomb?
Amendment that made alcohol illegal to manufacture, distribute, or possess.
What was the 18th Amendment (Prohibition)?
The policy to dominate a weaker country economically, politically, and militarily.
What is Imperialism/Expansionism?
1934 law created to supervise stock exchanges and punish fraud in securities trading.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
Supreme Court case that upheld internment camps, citing “military necessity.” it was argued that the executive order violated the Fourth and Fourteenth amendment rights of Japanese citizens.
What was Korematsu v. United States?
FDR’s attempt to add more justices to the Supreme Court to protect the New Deal.
What was the Court-Packing Plan?
Soviet and American troops discovered these in 1944, freeing prisoners from disease and starvation.
What was the Liberation of the Camps?
What does Alexis de Tocqueville’s value of laissez-faire mean?
What is the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs