Gilded Age
Thomas Edison, founding father of the light bulb
Who was Thomas Edison?
18th amendment banned sales and consumption of alcohol
What amendment banned alcohol?
Imperialism is called to extend a country's power and influence
What is the definition of imperialism
Made people fear that communists would come to America
What is the Red Scare?
Limited foreign trade and investment, taxed foreign imported goods from other countries
What is a Tariffs?
Fought for better working conditions, higher wages, and fewer hours
What are Labor Unions?
W.E.B. Du Bois believed in immediate equality for African Americans and wanted it to happen instantly
What did W.E.B. Du Bois push for?
Isolationism is being neutral with global conflicts so you don't get involved
What is being neutral with global conflicts?
The day called when the stock market crashed
What is Black Tuesday
Years of drought causing farmers to lose their job and lose land from the topsoil being bad
What was the Dust Bowl?
Movement of people from rural areas to cities
What is the Urbanization?
Laissez-Faire is having minimal government interference and regulations
What is the Laissez-Faire?
Opened the door so all nations to have the equal trade with China
What is the Open Door Policy?
Led to the creation of jazz music and led to spreading African American culture
What was one of the creations from the Harlem Renaissance?
Buying stocks on margin that led to speculation because they were low then went really high
What was the Stock Market Speculation?
Banned Chinese women from entering the U.S, Nativist didn't want Chinese women to steal their jobs
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Litigation is the process of taking a case to a court
What is taking a case to court called?
Connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, located in Panama. In 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt pushed for this to make it easier for traveling across oceans
What was the Panama Canal?
After the bombing there were a series of raids and some said it to be an abuse of federal power
What were the Palmer Raids?
The New York Stock Exchange lost billions of dollars and the stock market crashed on October of 1929
What happened on Black Tuesday?
Terence V. Powderly, hired unskilled and skilled workers, lead workers to move for 8 hour days
Who lead the knights of labor?
Jim Crow Laws enforced racial segregation in the south
What did the Jim Crow Laws do?
Trench Warfare created a stalemate where neither side would advance for long periods of time
What happened when either side wouldn't advance for a period of time?
Federally persevered oil for the navy was drilled by oil men and started making everyone to not trust the government
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Great Depression was the era of deep economic depression, high unemployment, the dust bowl
What was the Great Depression?