Industrialization
Labor Union's most effective weapon against management
Collective Bargaining
Phrase that encouraged anger toward Spain and helped lead to war
Remember the Maine
Proposed an invasion of the United States by Mexico to keep the U.S. out of the war in Europe
Zimmerman Note
Crudely built homes on the edge of towns for homeless and destitute people in the Great Depression
Hooverville
Famous Oil Monopolist
John D. Rockefeller
To allow voting rights
Suffrage
Queen Liliuokalani
Country where American forces did most of their fighting in WWI
France
New Deal program to provide a long-term safety net for elderly Americans
Social Security
Founder of American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Supreme Court case which legalized segregation
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The Platt Amendment made the U.S. a territory after this war
Spanish-American War
This assassination marked the beginning of WWI
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Name one important woman who contributed to the New Deal
Eleanor Roosevelt & Frances Perkins
Led the Rough Riders at the battle of San Juan Hill
Theodore Roosevelt
Political reform that allows voters to reject laws even if they had already been passed by the legislature
Referendum
WWI program designed to regulate industries related to the war effort
War Industries Board
His literary work and his generation was referred to as the "Lost Generation"
Ernest Hemingway
Period where President Roosevelt pushed program after program through Congress to provide relief, create jobs, and stimulate the economy
First Hundred Days
Famous Muckraker who tried to expose harsh working conditions in meat packing factories
Upton Sinclair
Passed in 1862 to give free land in the Great Plains to anyone wishing to establish a farm
Homestead Act
Location of Post-WWI Peace Conference
Paris (Versailles)
This Act is associated with the creation of illegal ecnomies that produced and distributed alcohol
Volstead Act
Famous economist who believed lack of government influence in the economy led to the Depression
John Maynard Keynes
Used the assembly line to innovate the auto industry
Henry Ford