The Progressive Era
What were journalists who exposed the terrible working conditions of meat industries (and more) called?
Muckrakers
The US entered WWI in __ and the war ended in __
1917 & 1918
The movement of up to 1 million African Americans from the South to the North due to Southern racism and Northern WWI job opportunities.
What is the First Great Migration (1919)?
The US entered WWII in __ and it ended in __
1941 & 1945
John Hay called this a "splendid little war"
What is the Spanish-American War?
Who was the founder of the Hull House?
Jane Addams
This is the violent racist attack on the Greenwood District in 1921.
Tulsa Race Massacre
New wave of young women who wore their hair short, wore knee-length dresses, and openly drank/smoked.
What are Flappers?
This bill provided money for education and other benefits for military returning from WWII.
The GI Bill of Rights
This became the 50th state in 1898
What is Hawaii?
The 16th amendment authorized congress to enact a ______ _______ tax.
Graduated Income
This killed nearly 675,000 mostly young Americans contributing to post-war trauma.
The 1919 Spanish Flu Epidemic.
Mass withdrawals of money from US banks as soon as the economy began to decline; caused many banks to fail since their money was invested in public works
What were bank runs?
This was the campaign for beating the Axis powers abroad and beating segregation on the homefront.
Double-V campaign
This is a treaty that ended the Spanish-American War
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The system of mass production and consumption, characterized by assembly productin lines and higher wages for workers.
Fordism
This pair of acts inhibited wartime freedom of speech.
The Espionage Act and the Sedition Act
This famous trial reflected tensions between two ideas of freedom; contrasted "moral" versus "scientific" forms of education.
What was the Scopes Trial (1925)?
Executive Order 9066 called for this.
Japanese Internment
He was the president during the Spanish-American war (1898)
who William McKinley?