Rise of Industrialization
This act gave settlers free land in the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
The belief that society should help the poor and improve conditions.
What is the Social Gospel?
This type of warfare involved fighting from trenches during WWI.
What is trench warfare?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This event caused the U.S. to enter WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This railroad connected the East and West coasts, boosting trade and settlement.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This reform gave citizens the power to vote directly for senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
The explosion of this ship helped start the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
This policy banned alcohol in the United States.
What is Prohibition?
This group of African American pilots served with distinction in WWII.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This system allowed political machines to reward supporters with jobs.
What is the spoils system?
Journalists who exposed corruption and injustice were known as these.
What are muckrakers?
This telegram tried to get Mexico to ally with Germany.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This event marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
This effort gave the citizens of West Berlin the supplies they needed during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This law attempted to break up tribal lands and assimilate Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This policy used military strength to influence other countries.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
Shantytowns built during the Great Depression were called these.
What are Hoovervilles?
This crisis brought the U.S. and Soviet Union close to nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Ended Reconstruction in the South by removing the military and making Rutherford B. Hayes President.
What is The Compromise of 1877?
This paper tiger was created to limit monopolies and trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This was President Wilson’s plan for peace after WWI.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This president created the New Deal to fight the Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment (Truman Doctrine)?