Allowed farmers to occupy unsettled land to build homes and farms.

Poor areas of cities densely populated by people of common language and origin.

Intended to help Indians, it had the opposite effect by giving tribal lands to individual Indians, who often sold them.

Worker organizations who tried to collectively bargain for better pay and working conditions.

The act of giving one's personal wealth to the benefit of society.

People who started new businesses based on their inventions, services, or ideas.

Economic system in which private businesses compete free of government control.

Organization of people in power who support a larger group in need in exchange for votes.

A designation of land for Native Americans.

A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.

A large business entity that is separate and distinct from its owners.

Exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

Policies favoring the current citizens as opposed to immigrants.

A federal law passed in 1890 that committed the American government to opposing monopolies.

The time between 1890 to 1900 during which the population and economy grew quickly along with political and corporate corruption.

A train route across the United States finished in 1869.

The process of moving to another country to take up permanent residence.

A person who wields political power and influence over a region of constituency.

The practice of employing minors for low wages and poor working conditions.

A federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.

Prairie region of the central U.S.

Belief of those who felt the U.S. needed to expand its control and influence outside its current borders.

International conflict that proved the U.S. was a world power with significant influence in foreign affairs.

A procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his or her term has ended.

Naval officer who campaigned for expansion of U.S. territories.

Event that entered the U.S. in a war with Spain.

Supreme Court decision that required the racial segregation of public facilities.

Founded by a revolt of farmers in the South and Midwest against the Democratic and Republican Parties for ignoring their interests and difficulties.

Candidate for President in 1896 and 1900 who support the Populist cause.

Effort that combined Christian values with social reform.

Established the federal income tax.

Effort to fight government corruption and businesses' abuse of power.

Established an efficient trade route from the east and west coast of the U.S.

Constitutional action that prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol.

Expanded voting rights to women.

President that continued most of Theodore Roosevelt's policies.

A direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to vote on a particular proposal.

Advocated for the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands and served as the first governor.

Resulted in the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote.

Proposed "Square Deal" laws that protected consumers and used his presidential powers to protect the public interest.

Legal protections and privileges granted to people regardless of race, gender, age, or disability.

A leading force in the Progressive Movement, bolstered by his Democratic Party's winning control of both the White House and Congress in 1912.

U.S. Senator who led the fight against joining the League of Nations.

Major conflict that began with the assassination of Ferdinand and ended with the Treaty of Versailles.

Conditions of a peace treaty proposed by the U.S. president that would end World War I.

Sunk by the Germans killing more than 1,000 people, it spurred the U.S. to join the Allies in World War I.

Agreement by Germany to not sink any more ocean liners without prior warning or providing assistance to passengers.

Agreement that ended World War I.

A new military tactic in World War I, opposing soldiers were "dug in" very close to one another facing constant gun fire.

Austria-Hungary royal figure that was assassinated by Serbian nationalists in 1914.

German submarines

Plea to Mexico to join the Germans in World War I in exchange for former territories.

U.S. President during World War I

Army sergeant who nearly avoided the draft as a conscientious objector, he won the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor.

Legislation that required millions of men to register for the draft.

Criminalized criticism to the war effort.

Proposed coalition of countries that would defend each other against aggressors in which the U.S. refused to join.

Political belief that the U.S. should separate itself from foreign affairs.

Money owed to the Allies from Germany for damages caused in World War I.

U.S. Foreign policy at the beginning of World War I.

U.S. military force that broke the stalemate against the Germans in Europe.

Supreme Court case that curtailed free speech under the First Amendment during Wartime.

Meeting of European and U.S. leaders in which the terms of German surrender were negotiated.

Term used to describe the economic growth and cultural change in the 1920s.

Movement of millions of blacks from rural areas of the South to the urban areas of the North and Midwest.

A fear that an underground communist revolution would take place in the United States; resulted in the Palmer Raids.

Term for the 18th Amendment, outlawing alcoholic beverages in the United States.

Repealed prohibition

Applied natural selection to society, causing many to believe in race superiority.

President, self-made millionaire, and proponent of individual potential.

Multiple laws passed in the 1920s that placed quotas and literacy tests on immigration.

Inspired racial pride among the African-American community and called for a Back-to-Africa Movement

Pseudo-science that justified marriage and sterilization laws to remove "unwanted" genes.

President that advocated for a "return to normalcy" of laissez-faire capitalism following World War I.

American pilot who was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Cultural explosion of African-American literacy, art, and music.

Clarence Darrow defended a Tennessee science teacher for illegally teaching evolution; William Jennings Bryan argued for the prosecution.

Popular fashion in the 1920s that highlighted women's body figures.

Area of New York City that popularized the mass publication of music.

President that symbolized old-fashioned values and pro-business policies.

Belief in the ideals of equal opportunity, free education, and a will to succeed.

Gave women the right to vote.

Production model where each worker had a specific job in the process; improved manufacturing efficiency and costs.

Corrupt event in which oil-rich government lands in Wyoming were leased for personal bribes in Harding's administration.

Popular Harlem Renaissance poet and writer that drew on his experience growing up as an African-American child in Missouri.

Supreme Court case that ruled against the President's ability to exercise power not granted to him in the Constitution.

FDR's plan of relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.

Term given to the stock market crash on October 29, 1929.

Severe economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted nearly a decade.

Central banking system that controls the flow of money into and out of the federal government.