Important People
Important Dates
Great Depression
Economic Issues
Social Issues
100
Inventor that helped make electric lighting.
Who is Thomas A. Edison
100
The nation's first transcontinental railroad line was completed.
What is 1869
100
A chain reaction that caused the failure of thousands of banks, leading to a decade- long economic downturn called the Great Depression.
What is Stock market crash
100
The policy of "Trust-Busting" forced the dismantling of several monopolies.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
100
In 1882 the first major legislation designed to restrict immigration.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act.
200
leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Who is Susan B. Anthony
200
Edison developed the first practical electric lightbulb.
What is 1879
200
Winds blew away much of the topsoil during the drought, causing dust storms and makeing farmland unproductive.
What is Dust Bowl
200
Tust dominated a particular industry.
What is monopoly
200
was widely used in the late 1800s, in industries ranging form mining to textile manufacturing.
What is Child Labor
300
Helped found the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois
300
John D. rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Trust.
What is 1882
300
FD.R Federal government's policies in dealing with the Great Depression.
What is New Deal
300
An industry was often controlled by a single all- powerful corporation.
What is Trust.
300
Granted African Americans equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment
400
Social reormer and peace activist.
What is Jane Addams
400
Plessy v. Ferguson
What is 1896
400
A pension system for retired workers
What is Social Security
400
The telegraph used electrical pulses to carry messages
What is Morse code
400
enforced segregation by requiring African Americans to eat in different restaurants, attend different schools, and ride in different railroad cars.
What is Jim Crow laws
500
Developed a car called the model T.
What is Henry Ford
500
Du Bois was a part of the niagara Movement, call for full civil rights for african americans.
What is 1905
500
brought the United States out of the great Depression
What is WWII
500
The U.S. government look the first step toward controlling the power of the various trusts in 1887.
What is Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
500
The legal sparation of people of different races
What is Segregation
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