WESTWARD EXPANSION & GILDED AGE
INDUSTRIALIZATION & BIG BUSINESS
PROGRESSIVE ERA
Foreign and Domestic Policy
WORLD WAR I
ROARING TWENTIES
NEW DEAL
Great Depression
Presidents
Civil Rights & Reform Movements
100
This 1862 law encouraged settlers to move west by providing 160 acres of free land.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
This business practice involves buying out competitors in the same industry.
What is horizontal integration?
100
She founded Hull House and worked to help immigrants in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
100
This war in 1898 resulted in the U.S. gaining territories like Puerto Rico and Guam.
What is the Spanish-American War?
100
His assassination in 1914 sparked the start of WWI.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
This amendment started Prohibition.
What is the 18th Amendment?
100
This agency makes bank deposits safer by insuring them up to a certain amount.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
100
This photograph entitled "Migrant Mother" which came to represent the hardships of the Great Depression was taken by what famous photographer?
Dorothea Lange
100
FDR used these friendly evening radio addresses to reassure Americans.
Fireside Chats
100
This 1896 case upheld “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
200
This belief held that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
This business strategy involves controlling all steps of production from raw materials to sales.
What is vertical integration?
200
This 1913 law created the nation’s banking system and controls the money supply.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
200
This naval officer wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History and pushed for a stronger navy.
Who was Alfred T. Mahan?
200
This telegram from Germany encouraged Mexico to attack the U.S. during WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
200
These fashionable young women challenged traditional norms with dress and behavior.
Who were flappers?
200
This is the biggest legacy of the New Deal.
The U.S. government taking a larger role in people's lives.
200
The nickname for shanty towns and tent villages filled with people who had lost their homes or jobs during the Great Depression.
Hoovervilles
200
This philosophy guided conservative Presidents' approach to the economy through the 1920s, emphasizing limited federal intervention.
Laissez-faire
300
This 1887 law attempted to force Native Americans to assimilate by breaking up tribal lands and ending their tradition of communal living.
What is the Dawes Act?
300
This powerful financier helped bail out the U.S. economy and controlled major corporations.
Who was J.P. Morgan?
300
This type of journalist exposed problems in society, such as Upton Sinclair with The Jungle.
What is a muckraker?
300
This law banned immigration from China in 1882.
Chinese Exclusion Act
300
This Supreme Court case ruled that free speech could be limited during wartime.
What is Schenck v. United States?
300
This cultural movement celebrated African American music, art, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
This New Deal program provided jobs building dams and power plants in the South.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
300
What aspect of the Great Depression is illustrated by this political cartoon?
Bank failures
300
This woman reshaped the role of First Lady, held her own press conferences and radio addresses, spoke up for civil rights, and advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace.
Eleanor Roosevelt
400
This boarding school in Pennsylvania aimed to erase Native culture by forcing cultural assimilation.
Carlisle Indian School
400
This organization was the first major labor union and accepted skilled and unskilled workers.
What is the Knights of Labor?
400
This policy stated that the U.S. had the right to intervene in Latin America to maintain stability.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
400
Wilson’s plan for peace after WWI included the League of Nations.
What are the Fourteen Points?
400
This trial highlighted the conflict between science and religion in the 1920s.
What was the Scopes “Monkey” Trial?
400
This massive jobs program built roads, bridges, parks, and public buildings.
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
400
This October 1929 collapse of stock prices as investors rushed to sell off shares caused stock prices to drop dramatically.
Stock Market Crash
400
FDR’s New Deal was influenced by the ideas of this British economist who believed in government deficit spending to stimulate recovery.
John Maynard Keynes (Keynesian Economics)
500
These violent confrontations—Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman, Great Railroad—challenged labor relations in the late 1800s.
What are major labor strikes?
500
This law strengthened antitrust regulations and protected labor unions from being considered illegal.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
500
This 1900 policy encouraged open trade in China and opposed spheres of influence.
What is the Open Door Policy?
500
This 1918 law made it illegal to criticize the government or war effort.
What is the Sedition Act?
500
This other nickname for the decade came from the new popular form of music that took over clubs and radios.
What is the Jazz Age?
500
His "Share Our Wealth" program criticized FDR for not doing enough to help the poor.
Who was Huey Long?
500
During the early 1930s, this occurred when fearful depositors rushed to withdraw their money, causing many banks to collapse.
Bank runs
500
What is the modern equivalent of FDR's "Fireside Chats?
Presidential press conferences
600
This invention transformed the cattle industry by effectively fencing off land from competitors and ending open-range cattle drives.
Barbed wire
600
This invention made steel cheaper and helped build railroads and skyscrapers.
Bessemer process
600
"There are those who believe that, if you only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them." - William Jennings Bryan, 1896.
Which policy did William Jennings Bryan promote using arguments such as the one in the quotation?
Bimetalism and opposition to the Gold Standard
600
This New Deal program provided benefits for retired people and the unemployed and was funded through a payroll tax.
Social Security Administration (SSA)
600
The photograph below shows a condition of the 1930s caused by what two factors?
Drought and overfarming
600
This president was elected in 1932 and promised “bold, persistent experimentation.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
700
This image is "Spirit of the Frontier," a painting by John Gast from 1872. It shows American settlers moving west with the aid of technology and the protection of the goddess Columbia. In it, American Indians were presented as…
Obstacles to American progress.
700
These wealthy industrialists were criticized for ruthless business practices and huge fortunes.
Who were the Robber Barons?
700
The ultimate purpose of the New Deal was to
End the Great Depression
700
What group is Clifford Burke describing in this quote?
"It didn't mean too much to him, The Great American Depression, as you call it. There was no such thing. The best he could be is a janitor or a porter or a shoeshine boy."
African Americans
700
“Speak softly and carry a big stick” described this president’s foreign policy style.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
800
This program paid farmers to reduce production to raise crop prices.
Agricultural Adjustment Act/Administration (AAA)
800
This photograph depicts a program created by what famous mobster?
Al Capone (Scarface)
800
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program that focused on consumer protection, corporate regulation, and conservation.
What is the Square Deal?