The 1920s
This music was popularized in this time period.
What is Jazz?
The alliance that included Britain, France, and Russia.
What is the Allied Powers?
The policy of extending a nation's power by acquiring territories.
What is imperialism?
Enslaved Americans forcibly brought to the Americas.
What are slaves?
This famous person was the creator of the first automobile.
Who is Henry Ford?
This heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated in Sarajevo, sparking the war in 1914.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The Caribbean island that became a US territory following the Treaty of Paris in 1898.
What is Puerto Rico?
Supremacist hate group that targets different minority groups.
What is the KKK?
Because of accusations this community built economy was ultimately burned down.
What is Black Wall Street?
This person led the U.S. into WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This Muckraker’s novel, The Jungle, exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry, leading to the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Secret bars that were used to illegally sell alcohol during prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
The treaty that officially ended WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The 1898 war that resulted in the U.S. gaining overseas territories.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This billionaire’s Standard Oil Company was the first great U.S. business trust to be broken up under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The constitutional right allowing women to vote in political elections.
What is the 19th amendment?
The space between opposing trenches, often filled with barbed wire and landmines, was called this.
What is No Man's Land?
This philosophy applied "survival of the fittest" to justify Western dominance over "lesser" nations.
What is Social Darwinism?
This person was the first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?