WW1
Trench Warfare caused.
What is Trench Warfare caused stalemates because nobody wanted to go into No Man's Land, causing battles to be longer, making WW1 longer.
Hoovervilles
Another name for the Roaring 20's
What is the Jazz age
17th Amendment
The railroad that went across the entire North America
What is the Transcontinental railroad
The Black Hand and what they did.
What is the Black Hand assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The Bonus Army Incident
What is the 1932 march to Washington D.C. of 20,000 WWI veterans demanding immediate cash payment of military bonuses that they were promised by Congress
THe 18th amendment
What is prohibition?
The Jungle
What is the book, written by Upton Sinclair, exposes the meatpacking industry?
The device invented by Alexander Graham Bell to communicate.
What is the telephone?
M.A.I.N.A
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Assassination
These things caused the Stock Market Crash
1) The rising popularity of the Stock Market led to many people buying stocks. This not only caused stocks to lose value, but additionally, people were buying stocks "On margin," and they didn't actually have the money to buy them. So once stocks plummeted in value, the banks ran out of money because people couldn't pay their loans back.
2) Investors had predicted the market crash and demanded that people pay back their loans, so people started panic selling. This caused even LOWER stock prices and even MORE panic selling.
Flapper
What is a rebellious woman who openly rejected old Victorian expectations?
The opposite of the type of ruling during the progressive era
Assembly line
What is the method of production created by Henry Ford where parts are added in a sequential manner and each person/robot is giving one job and they must do that and that only.
The Zimmermann Telegram
What is a coded message, sent from Germany to Mexico, offering a military alliance, and promising them help in attacking America to regain lost territory.
Bank Holiday
What is FDR's suspension of banks nationwide and only reinstating banks that have enough money to pay back the loans?
The groups the KKK started to target during the roaring 20's
What are Roman Catholics, Jewish citizens, and foreign-born immigrants?
Spoils System
What is elected leaders giving government jobs and other favors to their political supporters?
The pioneers of human flight who built and tested a series of non-powered gliders.
Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright?
The Treaty of Versailles and what it caused.
What was signed in 1919, a peace treaty ending WW1, heavily punishing Germany, forcing them to pay billions of dollars to the Allied Powers, decreasing their military, and took their overseas colonies. This caused Germany to be embarrassed, quickly accepting Hitler because he told them it wasn't their fault, making the Treaty of Versailles a main cause of WW2.
Maldistribution of wealth (Income inequality)
What is a severe macroeconomic imbalance where a tiny fraction of the population controlled the vast majority of the nation's liquid capital, leaving the working class reliant on credit rather than actual wages to consume goods?
Deregulation (Cutting the Rules)
What is the government slashed taxes on corporations and high earners, raised tariffs to block foreign competition, and stopped enforcing rules on Wall Street and corporate monopolies.
Square deal
Roosesevelt's deal that focused on:
Conservation of natural resources
Control of corporations
Consumer protection
Labor Unions
What are groups of workers who engage in collective bargaining (negotiating as a group). If factory owners refused demands, unions organized strikes to halt production.