Gilded Age
1870s to 1900
When was the Gilded Age?
1914
What was the year it started?
due to economic growth, cultural dynamism, and social change.
Why is it called the Roaring 20s?
The stock market crash of 1929.
What was the biggest cause of the Great Depression?
Began on April 21, 1898.
When did the Spanish-American war begin?
The first railroad to connect the eastern and western United States.
what was the First transcontinental Railroad?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What event triggered World War One?
Ended from the Stock Market Crash in 1929.
What ended the Roaring 20s and when?
Dust Bowl.
what was the name of the severe drought and poor farming practices?
The USS Maine.
What was the name of the battleship that was sunk in the Havana Harbor?
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
What was the first significant law restricting immigration?
The Armistice.
World War One officially ended with the signing of what?
The Teapot Dome Scandal of 1921-1923.
What was a major political scandal involving the secret leasing of federal oil reserves which highlighted government corruption?
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
What was the name of a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social reform?
The Battle of Manila Bay in 1898.
In what battle did Commodore George Dewey lead a decisive naval victory against the Spanish fleet in the Philippines?
The Spanish-American War.
What war happened near the end of the Gilded Age?
By declaring war on Germany.
How did the United States Enter World War One?
The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925.
What was a highly publicized trial in Tennessee that debated the legality of teaching evolution in schools?
The Gold Standard Act of 1933.
The U.S abandoned what allowing for more flexible monetary policy?
The Battle of San Juan Hill in 1898.
What land battle famously involved Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders in Cuba?
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
What was the name of the first federal act to outlaw monopolistic business practices?
The Battle of the Somme.
What war is known for its staggering loss of life and exemplified the horrors of trench warfare
The Harlem Renaissance in 1920s.
What was the cultural, social and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, which celebrated African American culture and creativity?
Was a series of banking panics that led to widespread bank failures and a significant reduction in the money supply.
What was the Banking Panics?
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba. 1898
The Spanish Caribbean fleet defeated by U.S naval forces in what battle?