What was the name for the belief that Americans had to expand westward?
Manifest Destiny
These are progressives that wrote about the problems they saw including monopolizing trusts.
Muckrakers
Who was the navy admiral who said the US needed to increase their naval power to protect the colonies and trade?
Alfred T. Mahan
The name of the hole in the ground used as a defense during WWI.
Trench Warfare
The name for the transition process during which a nation at war returns to a state of peace.
Demobilization
What caused the Great Depression/what was the name of the day this happened?
The stock market crashed/ Black Tuesday
What was the name of the Northerners who moved to the South that the South resented?
Carpetbaggers
In some cases, they helped immigrants, but also resulted corruption and greed.
Political Machines
What is ONE reason the US became an imperial power?
To protect trade, to appear strong
How did the Americans help the Allies win in WW1?
They provided the troops needed to beat the Germans toward the end of the war.
The name of the immigrants that were executed for a murder they may/may not have committed due to nativism.
Sacco & Vanzetti
What was the name of the movement of African Americans from the South to the North to escape Jim Crow and for better job opportunities?
The Great Migration
Which president was lenient towards the South during Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson
The Social Gospel Movement were middle class Christians that helped immigrants and the poor. Which other type of reform helped immigrants and the poor in cities?
Settlement Houses
Name TWO countries the US had imperial control over after the Spanish-American war?
Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, Cuba
What did women do during WWI?
They took the jobs of men while they were at war, they were nurses on the battlefield
This was when a consumer would make a small down payment and then pay off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments.
Installment Buying
What was the name of a federal office created to combat unemployment during the Great Depression?
Answers will vary, CCC, Public Works Project, any New Deal things
What was the name of the law that gave reservation land to Native Americans to try to assimilate them?
Dawes Act
What were THREE items that the Second Industrial Revolution had that the First Industrial Revolution didn't?
Steel, Oil, and Electricity
What is the name of the waterway that the US wanted control over in order to make trade quicker?
Panama Canal
This government office told manufacturers what they could make and allocated raw materials during the war.
War Industries Board
This agreement between the US and other nations outlawed war as an instrument of national policy to avoid future war.
Kellog-Briand Pact
What was a difference between the ideas of Booker T. Washington & WEB Dubois?
Segregation vs. Anti-Segregation, etc.
This Reconstruction plan believed African Americans should have the most amount of rights.
Radical Republican Plan
Farmers wanted this due to the charges of railroads and unfair gold standard. The term means the use of both gold and silver as currency.
Bimetallism
The name for the law that ensured equal trading rights for all foreign nations throughout China.
The Open Door Policy
What organization did Woodrow Wilson propose, but the US did not join it due to the Senate voting it out due to not wanting to be involved in foreign affairs any longer.
League of Nations
How did the US help Germany after WWI?
Dawes Plan - gave them loans so that they could start making reparation payments to France & Britain
Why was the KKK revived during the 1920s?
Due to an influx of hatred towards Jews, immigrants, Catholics, and African Americans.
Name the 3 Reconstruction Amendments and what they did.
13th - abolished slavery
14th - gave citizenship and protection
15th - gave all men the right to vote
The name of the Floridian industrialist who helped connect eastern Florida through railroads which in turn increased tourism and hotels.
Henry Flagler
What was the name of the disease that effected people in Cuba during the Spanish-American War and during the construction of the Panama canal?
Yellow Fever
This group faced discrimination and suspicion in the US during WW1 due to their ethnic background. (Think who was the enemy during WW1)
This agreement reduced the arms race and size of the US Navy.
Washington Naval Conference
What was the name of the incident near Gainesville where an angry white mob destroyed a town and killed African American people over a false accusation?
The Rosewood Incident