Gilded Age & Progressive Era (Units 1 & 2)
This was an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city, which became popular in the late 1800s.
Political Machines
This WWI weaponry lead soldiers across No Man's Land.
tanks
This person created the first affordable automobile by using an assembly line.
Henry Ford
This event occurred on December 7, 1941 and caused the U.S. to enter World War II.
The Pearl Harbor Attack
This containment policy aimed to aid Greece and Turkey and prevent them from becoming communist countries.
The Truman Doctrine
This act was passed due to muckrakers like Upton Sinclair revealing the unsanitary conditions of the food industry.
Pure Food and Drug Act
This person contributed to the expansion of the United States by advocating for the annexation of Hawaii.
Sanford B. Dole
This Amendment expanded the political process for women by granting them suffrage.
19th Amendment
This president dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending World War II.
Harry S. Truman
This war was divided into the North and the South, and America helped the South to prevent them from falling to communism.
Korean War
This process was forced on American Indians to strip away parts of their culture and become more like Americans.
Assimilation
This is what the U.S. became after the Spanish-American War.
world power
This New Deal program was created to help with insuring the deposits of customers at their local bank to prevent future bank failures.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
These were planted by U.S. citizens to ensure an adequate food supply for civilians and troops.
victory gardens
This is accusing people of subversive activities without sufficient evidence.
McCarthyism
This "hands-off" style of government was discovered by Alexis de Tocqueville.
Laissez-faire
Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick policy created this to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The Panama Canal
This area of the United States experienced the "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s causing millions of Americans to move west.
Great Plains
This was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
The Battle of Midway
In 1957, the launch of Sputnik sparked this competition between Russia and the U.S.
Space Race
This is the Progressive Era reform which enabled the voters to remove an elected official from office, forcing them to face another election before their term expired.
Recall
BOTH of these weapons/methods of warfare led to the stalemate of World War I.
machine guns and trench warfare
The use of these led to a decrease in U.S. international trade, which has been seen as one of the causes of the Great Depression.
Tariffs
This ordered the internment of Japanese Americans in response to the Pearl Harbor attack.
Executive Order 9066
This law allowed soldiers returning home from World War II to be eligible for paid college education or job training.
GI Bill