Gilded Age
known for monopolizing 90% of the oil industry, which decreased competition.
What is John D. Rockefeller?
Get rid of alcohol
What is prohibition?
Connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans & created a faster trading route, it is also part of "The Big Stick" policy
What is the Panama Canal
Opportunities for ethnic minorities during WWII
What is 850 Mexicans work in Beet Fields and black pilots handle bombers skillfully
Aircraft warning technology
What is Radar
The population in the West will increase during 1850-1900
What is the Homestead Act?
Initiative, Referendum, and recall are
What are reforms / Government responding to the needs of voters
Gaining overseas markets, having more military bases, and expanding trade, are all results from what war
What is the Spanish-American War
This event happened in the last year of WWII when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin discussed how they would divide Germany
What is Yalta Conference
Was known for expanding the Executive power during the Great Depression
What is "FDR" Franklin Roosevelt?
Forcing Native Americans to attend boarding schools, learn the American language, and becoming more American is
What is Assimilation?
Abuses of the spoils system by political machines will bring on
What is the Merit System?
The U.S. did not join the League of Nations because
What is will cause the U.S. in entangling alliances
They flew 1400 combat missions and decreased opposition to the integration of races into the armed forces
What is the Tuskegee Airmen
people in lower classes were not capable of economic success
What is Social Darwinism?
Factories could stay open longer and have extended working hours
What was the invention of the light bulb?
Civil Service Reforms were passed to fix problems that were caused by
What are corrupt governments/the spoils system?
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which stated the U.S. would be the international police power of the Western Hemisphere, is also known as...
What is the Big Stick Policy?
This war halted (stopped) the progress of Japanese expansion and allowed the U.S. to gain back control
What is The Battle of Midway
Some of President Franklin D.Roosevelt's New Deal programs were declared unconstitutional when the Supreme Court held that they were
What is infringed on the powers of the states
Moving from rural area to the city
What is urbanization
because of corruption in the State legislatures a Constitutional Amendment was ratified that required senators to be elected by popular vote
The Battle of the Argonne Forest will lead to
What is the Armistice of German
1944 Supreme Court Case that violated Japanese 14th Amendment rights by putting them in internment caps
What is Korematsu v United States
The view that unequal trade hurt the livelihoods of American workers and jobs
What is Tariff?