Women
This amendment gave white women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
This "new woman" emerged during the 1920s. They wore bobbed hair, short skirts, and heavier makeup. They smoked and went to speakeasies. They ushered in a new morality that permitted women greater independence and freedoms.
What is a flapper?
Irish and Chinese immigrants were hired in the late 1800s to build this.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The United States entered this conflict in April of 1917.
What is World War I?
This listening device was invented in the 1920s and transformed leisure, changed war communications, and led to the invention of the first tv.
What is the radio?
This executive order, issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, led to the internment of over 100,000 Japanese Americans during WWII.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This school was opened in 1965 in Chicago as part of Mayor Richard J. Daley's effort to beautify the city. The school displaced thousands of Italian, Jewish, Hispanic, and Black residents and is a wonderful example of what urban renewal looked like in cities around the US.
What is the University of Illinois Circle Campus?
This women reformer started one of the most successful settlement house in the world here in Chicago.
Who is James Addams? (founded hull house)
This law gave black and POC women the right to vote.
What is the 1965 voting rights act?
These laws established immigration quotas, established a boarder patrol, and regulated Mexicans as migrants that had to go through inspection to cross the boarder for the first time in American history
What is the 1921 Emergency Quota Act and the 1924 Immigration Act?
The 18th amendment, passed in 1919, prohibited the sale or manufacturing of alcohol which kicked off this era of history.
What is the Prohibition Era?
What is October 29, 1929.
This secret project was used to end WWII.
What is the atomic bomb?
This program under President Lydon B. Johnson was created to fight US poverty, renew American cities, and provide aid to education.
What is the Great Society?
This branch of the army, founded in 1942 during WWII, allowed women to enlist in the army for the very first time.
What is the Women's Army Auxiliary Corp (WAACs)?
This fictional cultural icon depicted women workers during WWII on mobilization protesters.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
This is the number of European immigrants who came to the united states during 1901-1920.
What is 14.4 million?
This tragedy that happened on March 25, 1911 in New York City killed over 130 immigrant workers and inspired activist to fight for better and safer working conditions.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This US president was slow to respond to the crisis of the Great depression and actually made the situation worse by raising interest rates, raising taxes, cutting government spending, and placing high tariffs on international products.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This intergovernmental organization was founded in 1945, after WWII, to encourage world peace and better communication among countries of the world.
What is the United Nations?
This movement occupied Alcatraz in 1969 and held it for 18 months to bring attention to the issues facing Native Americans.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
This socialist was born into slavery in Texas and moved to Chicago after being emancipated. She became a famous speaker and was the only black woman to speak at the 1905 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) convention.
Who is Lucy Parsons?
This organization was founded in 1966 and fought for gender quality in employment, wages, and education. It furthered the theory of feminism and rebelled against traditional gender roles. It was also largely made up of Black and POC women and racially integrated the previously largely white feminist movement.
What is the National Organization of Women (NOW)?
This 1994 bill militarized the boarder patrol and made it the largest civilian armed force int he nation and has actually increased our undocumented immigrant population in the US since migrants are less likely to leave because of the increased danger of crossing the border.
What is Operation Gatekeeper?
These two laws were passed by Congress to limit dissent and criminalize critiquing the US government during WWI. They led to limitations on free speech and mass deportations of political radicals.
What is the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918?
Name three programs that FDR put in place with the New Deal to create jobs during the Great Depression.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Federal Art Project, the Federal Theatre Project, or Federal Writers Project?
Name two benefits of the G.I Bill that was given to veterans after WWII.
What is access to higher education, home loans, farms, and finacing for businesses?
This president was elected in 1968 and seen as a primary example of the rise of conservatism and republican backlash to social movements of the 1960s.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This book by Betty Friedan, feminist and co-founder of the National Organization of Women (NOW), came out in 1963 and described the dissatisfaction among women in mainstream American society after WWII. It was a nation's bestseller and is largely credited with kickstarting the 2nd wave feminism movement of the 1960s.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
This Lithuanian activist came to America in 1885 and advocated for anarchy and workers rights until she was deported to Russia during the first red scare in 1919.
Who is Emma Goldman?
Name the three waves of European Immigration to America.
What is Colonization (1492-1776); Northern and Western Europeans like the Irish, Germans, and Scottish (1800-1880s), and Southern and eastern Europeans like Italians and Jewish (1880s-1920s)?
Name a progressive era writer (or muckraker).
FDR established this agency to insure american banks to protect american citizens money and reestablish trust in american banks after the stock market crash of 1929.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
Name two of the ways the US reshaped the world economy to center themselves and emerge as a world power after WWII.
What is the creation of the World Bank, the founding of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Marshall Plan, or the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
Name three social movements that occurred during the 1960s.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM), Civil Rights, Black Power, third wave Feminism, the Chicano movement, anti-war movements, or the environmentalism movement?