Gilded Age
This term means that the federal government has a "Hands - Off" approach to business and the free enterprise system.
What is Laissez - Faire?
What is the 18th Amendment?
Name three new technologies/weapon(s) that came about during WWI.
Flamethrowers, Machine Guns, Tanks, Airplanes, Mustard Gas (Chemical Weapons), Submarines (U-Boats).
This president of the 1920's campaigned on the slogan of a "Return to Normalcy" indicating he wished for the U.S. to go back to the times before WWI.
Who was President Warren Harding?
This President who came to office after the 1932 election began putting Americans back to work by forming government agencies such as the FDIC, Social Security Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Works Administration.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
When an organization controls all aspects of an industry it can be considered to have a _____________.
What is a monopoly?
What is the 19th Amendment?
Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism and the Assassination (M.A.N.I.A.) are known as ____________________________________.
What are the causes of WWI?
Overextension of credit, overinflated shares, overproduction in agriculture, and negative media coverage all led to this economic failure on October 29th, 1929.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
What is the Dust Bowl?
The idea of a man spending one third of his life getting an education, a second third earning his fortune and the last third of his life giving back to society comes from this book written by Andrew Carnegie
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Works such as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle which called out the meat packing industry as being unsafe is known as ________________.
What is muckraking?
This telegram between Germany and Mexico promised to return territories of the U.S. to Mexico if Mexico kept the U.S. out of WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Young women who were known for "pressing" the boundaries but still careful not to cross them in terms of fashion, partying, tobacco and alcohol usage were known as __________________
What are "Flappers"?
This New Deal Program allowed the elderly and the disabled to receive money from the federal government to help them financially and is still in existence today helping millions of Americans every month.
What is Social Security?
Whereas ordinary workers saw the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and other business tycoons as "Robber Barons"... Business tycoons saw themselves as __________________________.
What are Captains of Industry?
Congress's ability to levy taxes without regard to population is granted with the passing of this Constitutional Amendment.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This treaty that was signed in French train car called for Germany and the Central Powers to A) Pay reparations for starting WWI and B) Break up the monarchies of Europe into separate nations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The calling of the Arts, Music, Poetry and Political ideologies with leaders such as Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong and W.E.B Dubois.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This New Deal program guarantees bank deposits up to $250,000.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
This new method for making steel faster and stronger is known as the ____________________.
What is the Bessemer Process?
President Theodore Roosevelt vowed to break up monopolies using this Congressional Act.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The sinking of this cruise ship by a German U-Boat angered the U.S. because it killed American passengers.
What is the Lusitania?
Although the Statue of Liberty greeted immigrants from all over the world, this group of Americans did not welcome immigrants for fear they would take jobs away from other Americans.
What are Nativists?
The March of Dimes campaigned on the 1930's phrase, "Brother, can you spare a dime?" in order to fight Polio and was further inspired by this four term president who suffered from the crippling disease.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?