Gilded Age
A philanthropist
What was Andrew Carnegie known as?
The man who pushed for Hawaii to be annexed by the United States
Who was Sanford B. Dole?
Making alcohol illegal
What is prohibition?
The power of the executive branch would increase while judicial power dropped with this failed Roosevelt plan.
What was Court Packing?
This was intended to help the country return to normal after WWI.
What was Return to Normalcy?
A book which revealed poor conditions in the meatpacking industry and later leads to the food and Drug Administration
What was the Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
Increased speed of transportation across the country especially to Asia
What is the Panama Canal?
Jazz was a major contribution of this cultural movement.
Intense Drought started this environmental disaster
What was the Dust Bowl?
This woman was a First Lady who was very involved in the lives of others.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
A group that was mainly farmers that pushed for free coinage of silver
What is the populist party?
The primary use of the weapon was to overcome trench warfare
What is poison gas, machine guns or tanks?
Limited Economic opportunities pushed people to move north in this major event.
This organization protects savings in case a bank fails.
What is the FDIC?
This act in WWI suspended freedom of speech and stopped people from talking out against the war.
What is the Espionage Act?
Promoted frontier settlement and movement West
What is the Homestead Act?
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
What was a cause of WWI?
Mass manufacturing and assembly lines made this man very successful
Who is Henry Ford?
This group of people were pushed out of the country to stop job competition.
Who are Mexican Americans?
This woman worked to improve the lives of immigrants in big cities.
Who is Jane Addams?
Encouraged Native Americans to own private property to push assimilation
What is the Dawes Act?
Lead to increased American power and control of territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
What was the Spanish American War?
This tried to stop the spread of communism in the 1920s.
What were the Palmer Raids?
People were not able to pay back their loans that they used to purchase stocks.
What was the Stock Market Crash?
What is the 15th Amendment?