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The act of breaking up monopolies
What is Trustbusting
100
Harding's idea that America needed time to be healed, restored, and reminded of conservative values.
What is Return to Normalcy
100
Favoritism toward native-born Americans and bias against immigrants
What is Nativism
100
An association of countries established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace.
What is League of Nations
100
What was it called when FDR addressed the public through the radio?
What is Fireside Chat
200
The large-scale introduction of manufacturing and industry in an area that used to be based on agriculture.
What is Industrialization
200
An organized group that offered services to voters and businesses in exchange for political or financial support.
What is Political Machine
200
Uses idea of natural selection to explain human society (why people live the way they do)
What is Social Darwinism
200
Name the two sides in World War I
What is Allies, Central Powers
200
Offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen who would live on it and improve it for five years.
What is Homestead Act
300
Monetary system that would make more money available with less value per dollar, making debts easier to pay off.
What is Bimetallism
300
The "movement of the people" that started in 1892 and ended in 1896.
What is Populism
300
A Supreme Court case that tested the constitutionality of segregation. Established the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
300
Granted Cuba independence and gave Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States
What is Treaty of Paris
300
Founded Universal Negro Improvement Association and promoted the return of African Americans to ancestral lands in Africa
What is Marcus Garvey
400
Gave the U.S. greater access to trade in Asia
What is Open Door Policy
400
Most famous political machine in New York City and its most famous boss
What is Tammany Hall and Boss William Tweed
400
The nickname of the Scopes Trial of 1925 and the names of the prosecuting and defending lawyers
What is Monkey Trial, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow
400
DOUBLE POINTS! Describe the Roosevelt Corollary
What is An extension of the Monroe Doctrine, announced by Roosevelt in 1904, under which the U.S. claimed the right to protect its economic interests by means of military intervention in the affairs of nations in the Western Hemisphere
400
Henry Ford's (1) method of production and (2) treatment of workers
What is (1) assembly line production (2) $5 a day wage/better hours
500
Name two labor unions and briefly describe their goals/beliefs. Extra 300 points if you name and describe a third union!
What is American Federation of Labor (better hours, wages, working conditions), Knights of Labor (membership open to all workers, more big picture focus, equal pay for men and women), Industrial Workers of the World (socialist, government control of businesses)
500
Name FOUR Progressive Era constitutional amendments and briefly describe what they did.
What is 16th (graduated federal income tax), 17th (direct election of senators), 18th (Prohibition), and 19th (women's suffrage)
500
Name three ways that the Great Plains influenced the development of America.
What is Homestead Act, Transcontinental Railroad, cattle drives, assimilation of Native Americans, establishment of Farmers' Alliances and the Grange, etc.
500
President _________ announced his plan for peace after World War I, called the __________ Points. His most important point was the creation of the _____________, which was rejected by a senator named ____________.
What is Wilson; Fourteen; League of Nations; Henry Cabot Lodge
500
Give the full name of four New Deal acts and briefly describe each.
Agricultural Adjustment Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, Social Security Act, Tennessee Valley Authority, Rural Electrification Act, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Securities and Exchange Commission, Emergency Banking Relief Act, etc.