Gilded Age/Westward Expansion
The Government was giving away land out west if people were willing to move out there and farm the land.
Homestead Act
Journalists and authors who wrote about the corruption and injustice in American Society in hopes of creating change
Muckrakers
Yellow Journalism, the Sinking of the USS Maine, and mistreatment of the Cuban people were all causes for what?
Spanish-American War
Henry Ford was the first to effective use the ________ _________ to mass produce his Model-T car. This made it possible for more people to have a car at a cheaper price.
Assembly Line
The FDIC, SEC, and the Social Security Act were a few of the programs aimed to fix the problems of the Great Depression as part of the what
New Deal
Completion of this allowed our country to be connected from East Coast to West Coast for moving goods and people.
Transcontinental Railroad
Initiative, referendum, and recall, are process citizens can take to have a better say in our _____________.
Government
What major project did the United States undertake in order to make it possible for military and trade ships to get from the East Coast to the West Coast in 1/3 of the time
Panama Canal
A modernized women who cut her hair shorter, wore shorter skirts and make-up and showed a change in the traditional roles of women in our country.
Flapper
Many of these went out of business during the Great Depression, and many times it caused people to lose all of their savings
banks
People born in the US that hated the fact that so many immigrants were flooding our country and taking jobs and changing our culture.
Nativists
Leader of the women's suffrage movement (19th amendment)
Susan B. Anthony
What made it more likely for soldiers to survive crossing the "No Man's Land" between the trenches...the implementations of _________ in the war.
Tanks
People in the 20's saw our government as potentially corrupt when officials took bribes for their own benefit over the usage of government land for oil production during the _________ _________ ___________.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Black Tuesday, was the event that triggered the entire Great Depression. What happened on that day?
Stock Market Crashed
Individuals that had monopolies in their respective industry that were called "Captains of Industry", but were also revered to as this because they were ruthless business men who charged high prices and hoed their employees
Robber Barons
Uptain Sinclair's book that exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meat packing industry
The Jungle
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, the Sinking of the Lusitania, the Zimmerman Telegram, and our close ties to the allies were all reasons for the US entry into what?
WW1
The achievements of Black Americans in music, art and literature was first celebrated during what in New York City
Harlem Renaissance
Not only were we in the middle of the Great Depression, but record drought in the Midwest led to an event that caused many farmers to go bankrupt and leave their family's farms behind for good
Dust Bowl
Highly organized, often corrupt, political party organizations led by a single "boss" that traded jobs, social services, and favors for immigrant and working-class votes.
Political Machines
W.E.B. Dubois and Ida B. Wells were early civil rights workers. What organization did they help establish?
NAACP
Alfred T. Mahan said that if the US was to become a World Power, we must have a strong ________ to protect our assets and shipping
Navy
The Red Scare in the 1920's was the first time we realized that _______________ was a real threat to our way of life
Communism
A huge reason the stock market crash led to so many people losing everying was the fact that many people had been buying on __________, even paying for stocks on barrowed money
Credit