ww1
The year WWI started
What is 1914?
The amendment that made slavery illegal in America
What is the 13th amendment?
The period of innovation, progress, and economic growth in America after Reconstruction
The outlawing of the creation, distribution, or consumption of alcohol
What is prohibition?
What is machine guns, tanks, poison gas, airplanes, artillery/grenades, scopes/rifles?
The amendment that states all people born in America are citizens
What is the 14th amendment?
A way of merging businesses together: one person still controls
What are trusts?
The largest and most important labor union that fought for better working conditions and 8 hour workdays
What are the Knights of Labor?
The cause of America's entrance into WWI
What is the sinking of the Lusitania or Zimmerman Telegram?
The amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
The saying inspired by the thought that anybody can become rich with hard work
What is 'rags to riches'?
A tactic used by workers when they refused to work or used to force owners to accept their demands
What are labor strikes?
The two groups fighting WWI
Northern Republics who moved to the south to profit from Reconstruction
What are carpetbaggers?
A man who controlled half of the railroads in America
Who is J.P. Morgan?
Their wages were passed to their husbands or fathers
Who did womens' wages go to?
The main method of warfare and battling during WWI
What is trench warfare?
Laws that enforced public segregation (bathrooms, water fountains, movie theaters, parks, etc.)
What are the Jim Crow laws?
A group of people that share ownership of a business
What is a corporation?
Another name for journalists who use investigative reports to uncover the problems with society
What are muckrakers?