Businesses and Innovations
Who was the founder of the Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
What was the job of Muckrakers?
Investigative journalists
what is another way to name the Roaring 20s?
Jazz age
What was the name of the telegram sent by Germany to Mexico?
Zimmerman
What created more unification between americans?
Radio and Movies
What innovation extended working hours?
The light bulb
Who started Hull House in 1889?
Jane Addams
what material did prohibition banish?
Alcohol
What year the US entered in World War I?
1917
Who made cars less expensive?
Ford
What connected towns and provided faster transport for everyone during the 1800s?
Railroads
What act was created after the revelations founded in the book "The Jungle"?
Meat Inspection Act
What was the 19th amendment for?
Women suffrage
How do you call the journalism that focuses more on sales and sensationalism than on facts and thruts?
Yellow Journalism
What was the Red Scare?
Fear of communism
which of the founder of monopolies was the most philanthropist?
Andrew Carnegie
Who were seen as nurturers and agents of stability in a fast changing society?
Women
Where is Harlem?
New York City
What was the act that restricted free speech?
Sedition Act
Which Klan rebirth in the 20s?
KKK
What was the invention that made listening to music possible?
Phonograph
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Who was involved in the Great Migration?
Black People
Who was the director of the Committee of Public Information during World War One?
George Creel
What was about the fourteenth point Wilson made?
The League of Nations