Westward Expansion
These conflicts, fought between the U.S. Army and Native American tribes from the 1860s to 1890s, were sparked by westward expansion and encroachment on native lands.
What are the Indian Wars?
Known for their domination of the steel industry, this industrialist’s company was the largest of its kind by the early 20th century.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This 1898 event, in which a U.S. naval ship exploded in Havana harbor, was a major catalyst for the Spanish-American War.
What is the Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine?
This 1929 event caused a drastic collapse in the U.S. stock market, wiping out billions of dollars and contributing to the Great Depression.
What is "Black Tuesday" OR What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
The Zimmermann Telegram, intercepted by the British, revealed Germany's attempt to form an alliance with this country to fight against the U.S. in exchange for territory.
What is Mexico?
This monumental railroad project connected the eastern United States with the western frontier, dramatically changing the nation's economy and landscape.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
These overcrowded, poorly constructed apartment buildings in cities became the main housing for many immigrants during the late 1800s.
What are tenements?
After the Spanish-American War, the U.S. fought a bloody conflict from 1899 to 1902 against independence fighters in this Southeast Asian archipelago.
What is the Philippine-American War?
This New Deal program, created in 1933, provided jobs for young men to work on environmental conservation projects like planting trees, building roads, and improving national parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This new technology, first used on a large scale during World War I, played a crucial role in breaking the deadlock of trench warfare.
What is the Tank?
Signed into law in 1862, this act offered land to settlers, who had to improve it for five years in exchange for ownership.
What is the Homestead Act?
This 1886 strike in Chicago, which turned violent after a bomb exploded, became a symbol of the labor movement and its tensions with business owners.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
This muckraker exposed the unsanitary and dangerous conditions in the meatpacking industry through his novel The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
During Hoover’s presidency, these war veterans, who had been promised a bonus, marched to Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment, but were met with force by the U.S. military.
What is the Bonus Army?
his landmark U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of Japanese internment, though it was later widely criticized and seen as a violation of civil liberties.
What is Korematsu v. United States (1944)?
This 1887 act attempted to assimilate Native Americans by breaking up tribal lands and granting individual plots to Native American families.
What is the Dawes Act?
This type of business structure involves one company controlling every step of production, from raw materials to final product.
What is Vertical Integration?
This act, passed in 1906, set standards for food and drugs, ensuring they were pure and accurately labeled, and gave the government the authority to regulate them.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This New Deal program was designed to provide affordable electricity to rural areas, which were underserved by private utility companies.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
This secret alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, established in 1882, was a key element in the prelude to World War I.
What is the Triple Alliance?
In 1876, this battle resulted in a decisive victory for Native American forces led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse over General George Custer’s troops.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
This belief, popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, argued that the strong would naturally succeed in business and life, while the weak would fail.
This 1901 amendment to the Cuban constitution gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuba and maintain a naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
What is the Platt Amendment?
In response to criticisms from the Supreme Court, Roosevelt proposed THIS to increase the number of justices on the Court in order to push through his New Deal legislation.
What is Court-Packing?
This U.S. military leader, who later became the President of the United States, led the Allied invasion of Normandy and the D-Day assault.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?