Dress
The invention of this made it possible for women in the Gilded Age to spend less time sewing than women in previous eras.
What is the sewing machine?
The Great War was also called this.
What was WWI?
This man wrote novels which included Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Who was Samuel L. Clemens A/K/A Mark Twain?
In 1918, this epidemic killed 550,000 people in the United States and about 20 million world wide.
What was the Spanish Flu?
This roaring twenties president, known as "Silent Cal," was a churchgoing, nongambling, nondrinking, frugal conservative.
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
Most clothing made during the Roaring Twenties were fastened with this.
What were buttons?
The growing belief that loyalty to one's country and its political and economic goals came before any other public loyalty was called this.
What was called Nationalism.
Two revolutions occurred in Russia in 1917, one in February, during which the tsar was overthrown, and the second in October, during which the Bolsheviks took power. This new Bolshevik leader of Russia immediately called for peace talks with German.
Who was Lenin?
Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered this which has the ability to kill certain deadly bacteria without harming healthy tissue.
What is penicillin?
This was the largest man ever to serve as president and made the first step towards the establishment of a federal budget.
Who was William Howard Taft?
For college men who could afford it, a big, bulky ______ coat added class.
What is racoon?
A complex system of alliances existed in Europe for 20 years. Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary banded together to form this group.
What was called the Triple Alliance?
Who was John Dewey?
During the Gilded Age, this French chemist worked to convince surgeons that germs existed, that they carried diseases, and that dirty instruments and dirty hands spread germs and therefore, diseases.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
In January 1918, this president had proposed a set of war aims called the Fourteen Points.
Who was President Wilson?
During the Roaring Twenties, dresses became slightly ___________ and __________ in order to accommodate stepping into automobiles.
What is shorter and simpler?
Said to be the precipitating event of WWI, a Serbian revolutionary shot and killed this man.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The director of agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, who developed a crop rotation system that revolutionized southern agriculture.
Who was George Washington Carver?
A New Yorker named Clarence Birdseye patented this and later sold his company to the Postum Company for twenty-two million dollars.
What was a freezing process for foods.
During the first presidential election in which all women could vote, this man was elected president.
Who was Warren Harding?
During the 1880s and 1890s, _______ _______ _______ suits were popular for boys ages two to eight or nine.
This country was once a Triple Alliance however switch sides during WWI and joined the Allies.
What was Italy?
This Attorney General, insisted that communism was becoming an alarming problem in the labor movement and sent officials without search warrants to raid the offices of labor unions and the headquarters of communist and socialist organizations.
Who was Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer?
During the Great War, Americans on the home front participated in Liberty Loan bond drives, observed ______ days, and planted victory gardens.
What was wheatless/meatless/sugarless days?
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?