Booms/Busts
This technological innovation led to the economic development of the Great Plains and the close of the frontier.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act were government policies designed to address...
What are monopolies?
The movement Frances Willard led.
What is the Temperance Movement (no drinking)
During this civil rights movement murals celebrating the vibrant and diverse culture of this group were painted on the sides of buildings.
What is the Chicano Movement?
Which of the following is NOT a way to execute your civil liberties? : voting, serving on a jury, community service, running for office, writing to your representative.
What is community service?
long working hours, little pay, poor and dangerous working conditions, child labor. Give this wealthy, Gilded Age men this nickname.
What are Robber Barons?
Government policies such as the Chinese Exclusion Act and Immigration Quotas are a response to a lack of...
What are jobs?
Unlike the Black Panthers, SNCC, NAACP, CORE, and the SCLC focused on what approach to civil rights activism?
What is Non-violent?
This individual rode buses from the desegregated north to the segregated south to draw attention to the civil rights issues of the south.
What are Freedom Riders?
The government act passed after the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
The GI Bill led to the education and employment of returning servicemen, which led to the baby boom followed by the migration of these soldier's families to the...
What are the suburbs?
The name of the economic "trickle-down theory", the idea if taxes are cut for the middle class, upper class, and businesses, those individuals and organizations will then spend that money and support the economy.
What is Reaganomics?
Marcus Garvey, W.E.B DuBois, Ida B. Wells, and Booker T. Washington all worked towards....
What is African American Civil Rights?
In writing about and taking pictures of the poor conditions in cities, factories, and in the South. This group was able to draw government and civilian attention to the needs of these people.
What are Muckrakers?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 made poll taxes illegal (paying to vote). This is reflected in which amendment to the Constitution?
What is the 24th Amendment?
Overspeculation by individuals, companies, and banks is one way to cause a ....
What is economic depression?
This policy regulated the railroads in order to ensure fair pricing and practices when shipping goods for both big businesses and small farmers.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinman are all associated with...
What are Women's Civil Rights Movements?
Strikes are a common form of activism for what type of groups? Examples: Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor
What are unions?
Brown vs. the Board of Education overturned which prior Supreme Court case that legalized segregation.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
assembly line manufacturing, time-study analysis, robotics, computer management, and just-in-time inventory management all help...
Increase production (make more things, more quickly)
This conflict caused technological innovations at a rate rarely seen over the course of history. These innovations included UV protection, heat resistant materials, long-distance ballistic missiles, extended food preservation, high powered rockets.
What is the Cold War?
All of the following were/are Supreme Court Justices why are they each important to American History?
Thurgood Marshall
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sonia Sotomayor
What is First Black Supreme Court Justice, What is the first female Supreme Court Justice, and What is the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice?
After the progressivism of the early 1900s, with changing gender roles, increased immigration, and renewed calls for racial equality, the 1920s were a period of .....
What is Conservatism? (eugenics, nativism, the 1st Red Scare, and Prohibition)
This Progressive Amendments (16th, 17th, 18th or 19th) made sure that senators were directly elected by the people.
What is the 17th Amendment?