Who?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Factory fire in 1911 that resulted in a significant change in workplace safety.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Exclusive control by one company over an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots as part of a plan to assimilate Native Americans into American society
What is the Dawes Act (Dawes General Allotment)?
He founded the company, Standard Oil.
Who is John Rockefeller?
The amendment that removed the 18th amendment and stopped Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The year that the Spanish-American War was fought.
What is 1898?
Failed policy of granting concessions in order to keep the peace during World War II.
What is appeasement?
Proposed by President Woodrow Wilson inspired hopes for a fair settlement of World War I because this program called for the establishment of a world peach organization to guarantee political independence for all nations.
What are the Fourteen Points?
The Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, during WWII
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
The amendment that made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This battle was a turning point in the Pacific for the U.S. during World War II.
What is the Battle of Midway?
Telegram written by German Foreign Minister Zimmermann proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States during World War I.
What is the Zimmerman Note/Telegram?
What is Women's Suffrage?
Created the "Bull Moose" Party to run in the presidential election of 1912
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were enacted to give rights to this group.
What is former slaves (African Americans)?
The strategy of providing billions of dollars in financial aid to Europe after World War II to help rebuild countries' economies and keep them from becoming Communist.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the United States is they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships.
What is the Neutrality Act of 1939?
Whose car was used to transport FDR to the Capital for his war speech on December 8th, 1941?
Who is Al Capone?
President who not only expanded government control and power but also lead the US through WWII. Sadly also signed an executive order to intern Japanese-Americans in prison camps.
Who is FDR?
Group of minorities that have the ability to invoke rights guaranteed in treaties with the United States.
Who are Native Americans?
Written in the early 1900s describing in detail the horrorific nature of meat production resulting in federal legislation to ensure inspection of food products.
What was The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair?
The horrific case of racial violence and massacre that occurred in 1921. Reports suggest deaths should be in the 100s, not 20s. Dozens of city blocks destroyed. No insurance claims were paid.
What is The Tulsa Race Massacre?
June 1944 important to the outcome of World War II because it opened a new Allied front in Europe.
What is D-Day?