Roaring 20´s
Russian Revolution started as a worker Revolt, Americans associated labor strike to Communism.
What was the Red Scare?
a federal land grant that allowed citizens to claim 160 acres of land in the west as long as they established a homestead
What is The Homestead Act?
Document said that the power of the government comes from the consent of the governed
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The stock market crash of 1929 is referred to as what
What is Black Tuesday?
A policy if extending a country´s power and influence through diplomacy or military force
What is imperialism?
People in Harding’s Cabinet took payments or bribes from private companies in order to lease lands containing oil reserves at Teapot Dome.
What is The Teapot Scandal?
the first railroad that linked the east to the west
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The 1st unsuccessful draft of the US Constitution
What are the Articles of Confederation?
After years of sustained drought and misused land by farmers great clouds of dust and sand were carried by the wind resulting in what name.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Sanford B. Dole worked to expand the power of the U.S. by helping overthrow the ruler of Hawaii named
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
In the 1920s the was a influx of African American moving to urban areas in the north
What is the Great Migration?
the battle of little big horn was the last stand of what famous american general
Who is General Custard?
the three branches of government
What are the Legislative, the Judicial, and the Executive Branches?
the name given to shanty towns created by homeless throughout the U.S.
What is Hoovervilles?
During the Spanish-American war where was the U.S. able to quickly defeat the spanish navy.
Where is the Philippines?
a small part in Manhattan, this was during the era of songwriting, when many different kinds of new genres music were mixed together to form American Popular music like Jazz,Blues and Ragtime
What is Tin Pan Ally?
a ceremonial spike that joined the transcontenintal railroad and the central pacific railroad
What is the Golden Spike?
Outlined in article V, these are changes made to the constitution
What are amendments?
the largest public works project that the Hoover administration implemented trying to create new jobs
What is The Hoover Dam?
In 1914 President Roosevelt completed a project that increased global trade furthering the U.S. global influence
What is the Panama Canal?
It was the sutdy of human Improvment by Genetic means, Higher Reproduction of those with Strong Favorable Traits VS Undesirable Traits. Way to get rid of racial and biological “mistakes.” Including the forced sterilization of “undesirables”
What was Eugenics?
This drove Reservations to be broken up and distributed to individual families, while surplus was given to white settlers.
What is the Dawes Act?
the first 10 amendments of the Constitution are referred to as
What are the Bill of Rights?
the name of FDRs plan to pull the economy out of the great depression.
What is the New Deal?
In a message decoded by British intelligence Germany was trying to propose a military alliance with Mexico against the U.S. The message was called what.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?