Amendments
What was the 18th Amendments
Prohibition of alcohol
Describe the Gilded Age
Businesses became wealthy, some corrupt government officials supported business first policy.
- Electricty,, monolopies, urbanization, immigration
Jane Adams
Founded Hull House in Chicago to help poor immigrants. Part of social reform movement
What were the leading causes for U.S. Involvement In WWI
Zimmerman Tellegram and the sinking of the Lisutania
Limited American's freedom of speech
Espionage Act
What was the 19th Amendment
Right to vote for women
Describe the progressive era
An era of reform
- Populist party
- Pure food and drug act
- National Park services
- Prohibition
- 19th Amendment
WEB DuBois
Early civil rights leader and help found the NAACP
What were some reasons for the U.S. Involvement in WWII
Pearl Harbor - FDR Fire side chats
Government Policies protecting consumers, resulted from Muckrakers like Upton Sinclair
Pure Food and Drug Act
What was the 21st Amendment
Making Alcohol Legal again
Give me 5 examples of Imperialism and America becoming a world power
Spanish American War
Panama Canal
Hawii, Puerto Rico
WWI, WWII
Thurgood Marshall
distinguished African American lawyer, appointed to the U.S. Supreme court. Helped overturn Plessy V. Furguson
List 5 characteristics of the Cold War
Korean War (Proxy War )
Arms Race
House Un-American Activities Commitee
Marshall Plan
Vietnam War
Required equal treatment of minorities in the work place.
Civil Rights Act of 1965
What was the 17th Amendment
Direct election of senators
Summarize the Great depression causes, effects and resolution. What policies did FDR initiate?
Overspeculation
New Deal
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Woman to be appointed to the Supreme court
What was the effect of the Spanish American War?
Helped establish America as a world power
Ended Poll taxes and literacy tests as a requirement to vote, resulted in increased voting by minorities
Voting Rights Act of 1965
What was the 15th
Voting for all male citizens
Give me 5 events and 2 significant figures during the civil rights movement
Brown V. Board of Education
Little Rock Nine
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Selma
Richard Nixon
President in the 1970's. Helped withdraw from Vietnam and improved relations with China, but resigned as President after Watergate
Causes of the Spanish American War
Cuban Revolution and Sinking if the USS Maine
Created in the New Deal that benifits program to help elderly and disabled, increased government responsibility
Social Security Act