Who are Jews and Catholics?
The passage of the 17th amendment now allowed these lawmakers to be directly voted by the people.
Who are Senators?
With (some) scheduled days off of work, people invented/found new ways to entertain themselves, such as baseball, basketball and bicycling.
What are leisure activities?
People who organized and came together to discuss and negotiate wages, health concerns, and working hours with their bosses were known as this...
What is a labor union?
These organized crime gangs (including Al Capone) ran illegal alcohol smuggling operations during Prohibition--and made millions.
What is the mafia?
This terrorist group experienced a revival and expanded their focus to Jews, Catholics, immigrants and African Americans, and didn't hide it.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two of the most famous examples of this type of person, who championed women's rights.
Who is a suffragist?
Andrew Carnegie donated millions to allow people to freely access books--provided they had a card, that is.
What is a library?
The assembly line was an extension of this concept, made possible during the Industrial Revolution. With it, the sheer number of goods produced made prices go down as more were sold on the market.
What is mass production?
DAILY DOUBLE
Speaking of Prohibition, this ended in 1933 with the passage of this amendment, making several people quite happy.
This amendment finally allowed women to vote. Votes for women!
What is the 19th amendment?
Shalom! Anti-Semitism is the specific discrimination against this type of person.
Who are the Jews?
DAILY DOUBLE
Woah! Did you hear that? This 1927 invention allowed movie goers to hear the actors speak or sing for the first time.
Many Americans, most often sweatshop workers, lived crammed together in multi-family apartments in poor, run-down neighborhoods, sharing one bathroom for the entire building. Hopefully they were okay with sharing.
What are the slums?
This is a special voting session where voters can accept or reject local laws/initiatives.
What is a referendum?
This law, a win for the Temperance movement, made alcohol sales and consumption completely illegal in America.
What is the 18th amendment?
Ida B. Wells was one example of this type of journalist who investigated corrupt or unfair industries to enact change.
Who is a muckraker?
President Teddy Roosevelt set aside millions of acres of land to protect unique landforms and precious resources for future generations to enjoy.
What is a national park? What are national forests?
Fearful of their growing influence, nativists and other people vowed never to do this with Catholic immigrants as a form of discrimination.
What are hire them or vote for them?
Although standardized testing would not be mainstream for several more years, children were no longer allowed to spend their childhood working, instead spending their days here.
What is school?
These people saw immigrants, particularly from Eastern and Southern Europe, as threats to the American way of life.
What is a nativist/nativism?
Contrary to Progressives, these people wanted the government to own all major industries/businesses to regulate prices and business practices.
Who are Socialists?
Thomas Edison came up with this invention in 1880, and revolutionized the way we saw the world.
What is a moving picture?
Began under President Roosevelt during a nasty coal miner's strike. A third party was brought in to negotiate a fair deal to both sides.
What is arbitration?
Hoping to become a US citizen? Let's hope you weren't Japanese under Theodore Roosevelt's presidency, since this law prevented you from immigrating to the US.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement of 1907?