Reconstruction and Industrialization
What is the difference between a Robber Barron and a captain of industry?
Robber barrons built vast fortunes through ruthless monopolies and worker exploitation
Captains of Industry who drove the American economy forward through innovation and philanthropy
Statue of Liberty
What sunk in the Havana Harbor that led to the Spanish American War? (the newspapers got it wrong!)
The USS Maine, blame it on Spain!
What was Prohibition? What did it prohibit? and why?
Prohibition was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, and transportation of intoxicating liquors that lasted from 1920 to 1933. It was enacted by the U.S. government to reduce crime, decrease corruption, and solve societal problems associated with excessive alcohol consumption.
Why did many people have to move into Hoovervilles?
they broke lol
Name the main commodity for either John D Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie or Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Railroads-Vanderbilt
Oil-Rockefeller
Steel-Carnegie
How did nativists feel about immigrants?
no
What country did the US build a big canal in? Bonus points for explaining why they wanted to do it
What is propaganda, and give me an example of it in WWI
I want YOU to join the US Army
What started the Great Depression? (A wall street event)
Stock Market crash of 1929.
People buying stuff with money they dont have the the banks dont have either........rip
Explain the effects of the railroads on the US
Created a more interconnected society
People moved west, travel was faster
What was Upton Sinclair's the Jungle about?
Tell me things about Theodore Roosevelt. What do you remember? What was his personality and demeanor like?
Speak softly and carry a big stick. Outdoorsman, aggressive, wore many hats. Conservationist and trustbuster
What was the goal of the League of Nations?
Lasting worldwide peace and cooperation. It failed.
FDR's New Deal Program had Three R's to bring the country back from depression. Name an "R"
Relief, Recovery, Reform
What were some ways African Americans were restricted from voting after the Civil War?
literacy taxes, poll taxes, grandfather clauses
Where were immigrants processed on the East AND West coast?
Ellis Island, Angel Island
Name a cause of WWI (MANIA)
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Assasination
What was a music genre born out of the Harlem Renaissance?
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How did President Truman justify using the atomic bomb on Japan? What was the impact?
He warned them before in the Potsdam Declaration
Land invasion of Japan due to kamikaze culture-more American loss of life
What did the 14th and 15th Amendment do?
14th-citizenship to former slaves
15th-voting rights to all citizens (African American men)
What is a labor union? Explain the benefits of joining one
organized association of workers, formed to protect their rights and interests.
Its how groups gain rights! Whats an example?
Explain a piece of new technology (weapons, vehicles etc) used during WWI
Tanks, machine guns, planes, mustard gas etc.
Explaint the appearance of flappers, and general public response to them
short skirts, short hair, smoking, drivign cars, dancing, carefree and against the traditional norm for women
they were heavily criticized!
How were Japanese Americans treated during WWII? What happened to them?
They were sent to internment camps until the wars end, because the US Government believed some were spies.
Families affected got 20k in the 1980s as a "sorry".