Waterway created to provide a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
What is the Panama Canal
100
Great Britain, France, and the United States who replaced Russia.
What are the Allies
100
U.S. President who crafted the New Deal, a series of programs designed to pull the country out of the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR).
100
a tax on imported goods that raises the price of imports so people will buy American made products.
What is a tariff
100
The use of sensationalized and exaggerated newspaper reporting to attract readers and sell more papers
What is Yellow Journalism
200
U.S. policy of using the nation's economic power to exert influence over Latin American countries.
What is Dollar Diplomacy
200
U.S. President whose Fourteen Points was a plan for peace after the war.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
200
List each of the 3 R's
What are Relief, Recovery and Reform
200
Borrowing money to invest in the stock market on the assumption that the profits made will repay the loan is considered buying stock on this
What is margin
200
US Foreign Policy which changed the Chinese system of "spheres of influence," providing the United States with trading rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy
300
Policy of using U.S. military strength to maintain peace and order in the West.
What is "Big Stick Diplomacy" or the Roosevelt Corollary
300
Failed attempt at creating an international body to settle disputes between nations to avoid war, predecessor to the United Nations.
What is the League of Nations
300
This reform program which created a national retirement system is still with us today.
What is Social Security
300
Young women in the 1920s who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior
Who were Flappers
300
U.S. battleship that exploded in the port of Havana, Cuba. It became a battle cry during the Spanish-American War.
What is the Maine
400
This ended the Spanish-America war. Spain freed Cuba and turned over Puerto Rico and Guam to the US.
What is the Treaty of Paris
400
The sinking of this luxury liner was one of the primary events which drew the U.S. into World War I.
What is the Lusitania
400
The Works Progress Administration attempted to put the nation's unemployed back to work quickly while improving its infrastructure at the same time. This is an example of which type of New Deal program?
What is Relief
400
llegal bars, often hidden within legal establishments, that served liquor during Prohibition
What is a speakeasy
400
This New Deal reform program insured deposits made to the nation's banks.
What is the FDIC.
500
Asian territory gained by the U.S. after the Spanish American War but was soon granted independence.
What is the Philippines.
500
Devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation.
What is Nationalism
500
The Agricultural Adjustment Act offered government subsidies to farmers to leave portions of their fields fallow in an effort to raise the prices of crops. This was an example of which type of New Deal program?
What is Recovery
500
Prohibition, declaring the sale, manufacture or transportation of alcohol illegal, was established by this constitutional amendment. It had the unintended consequence of giving rise to organized crime.
What is the 18th amendment.
500
Court case in which a school teacher was charged with teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in school.