The National Road was one of many federal projects to improve transportation at the time.

The Virginia Plan proposed scrapping the Articles of Confederation entirely and creating a new

national government

Dred Scott was a Missouri slaveholder who had taken an enslaved man to live in free territory

before returning with him to Missouri.

The Fugitive Slave Act required ordinary citizens to help capture runaways.

The Emancipation Proclamation decreed freedom for enslaved persons in all states where they were

held

The Coercive Acts were intended to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.

George Calvert, also known as Lord Baltimore, founded a colony in America where Protestants could

practice their religion without persecution.

One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business

A decline in the volume of available money, it increases the buying power of money

Total control of a type of industry by one person or one company

The reduction in the cost of a good brought about by increased production

An organization of common laborers and craft workers in a particular industry

A policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the economy

Settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider

An organization that is authorized by law to carry out an activity but treated as though it were a single person.

The first oil well was drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania by

The government offered each railroad company building the Transcontinental Railroad _______ along its right-of-way.

Political machines provided new city dwellers with necessities such as jobs, housing, and police protection in exchange for

The stage was set for legalized segregation in 1883, when the Supreme Court overturned which of the following?

By calling their era the “Gilded Age,” authors Mark Twain and Charles Warner were

The application of the theory of evolution and natural selection to human society was known as

In one of the major economic debates of the late 1800s, Republicans in Congress blocked Democratic efforts to

The vast majority of immigrants arriving on the East Coast spent about a day at a processing center located where?

What law prevented Chinese immigrants already in the United States from becoming citizens?

Some Chinese immigrants opened their own businesses in part because

The Populist Party declined after the election of 1896, when

America’s industrialization made some people wealthy and created a growing

Many immigrants came to the United States in part to escape from poverty and

The Monroe Doctrine prevented Europe from taking over countries in __________________

What two views did Americans have during the age of imperialism?

This means that one wants to join a new territory to an existing country.

Anti-Imperialist didn't want to expand because

Yellow journalism was the reason we had the Spanish-American war?

muckraking is what type of journalism?

Why did the US want islands in the Pacific Ocean

The Panama Canal was under US authority for

Theodore Roosevelt is why we have

The Progressive ERa is defined as a historical era because the time period is characterized by the ~

Which of the following was one effect of the Progressive Era political reforms of initiative, referendum, and recall

Political change in the Progressive Era was characterized by the expansion of ~

Efforts during the Progressive Era to gain the right to vote for women included ~

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created a central banking system in the United States with the responsibility of ~

The first large-scale effort by the United States government to regulate business involved ~

As a part of his attempt to expand political and economic rights for African Americans, W.E.B. DuBois and other prominent Progressive leaders founded the ~

The "Jungle" alerted folks what was really going on in the meatpacking industry. What government action did the "Jungle" eventually lead to?

Another name for the government's ban on alcohol was called what?

With which amendment to the U.S. Constitution did prohibition take effect?

Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had to do with women getting the right to vote?

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution provided for a graduated income tax?

Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allowed citizens to vote directly for their state senators?

The creation of the National Park Service reflected Progressive concerns about what?

The Palmer Raids were in response to a series of bombs and rising tension due to The Red Scare.

Calvin Coolidge’s sentiments of returning to normalcy struck a chord with voters, and he won the election of 1920 with a landslide margin.

After the war, people raced to buy goods that had been rationed, while businesses rapidly raised prices they had been forced to keep low during the war. This resulted in rapid deflation.

The War Industries Board worked closely with women and African American civil rights.

In the aftermath of World War I, unions in Seattle organized a general strike.

12. What two new forms of warfare were introduced during World War I?

14. In World War I, __________ were battles in the air between aircraft with attached machine guns.

16. To conserve energy, the Fuel Administration shortened workweeks for factories that did not make war materials and introduced

18. Realizing a draft was necessary, Congress created a new system of conscription called

20. During World War I, a group called the _____________ took power in Russia and established a Communist government.

22. During World War I, women officially served in the armed forces for the first time in

The British entered World War I when

Who walked off the job in Boston in what was perhaps the most famous strike of 1919?

In 1908 the Serbs became furious when

Americans often linked radicalism with

President Wilson called for the creation of a “general association of nations” known as the

According to the Zimmermann telegram, if Mexico allied with Germany, Germany would