Industry
This invention revolutionized travel and fundamentally shaped American infrastructure after its popularization
What are cars? (double points if you can name the specific car)
The act of workers banding together to possess more bargaining power with their company/boss.
What is a Union?
This island nation was seen as a perfect place for a naval base due to its location in the center of the Pacific ocean
What is Hawaii?
This event happened on "black Tuesday" and is often credited with the spark that caused the Great Depression.
What is the 1929 Stock Market Crash?
This demographic was called into action as men were shipped off to war.
What are women?
The a major industry taking over American life at the beginning of the 1900's.
What are oil, railroads, or steel?
These were considered typical work hours / days
What is 12-14 hours, 6 days per week?
This is the reason America wanted to buy a 10 mile stretch of Panama.
What is to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
This New Deal program was used to guarantee pensions for all Americans over the age of 63 (once they retire)
What is Social Security?
This is how Women's roles shifted during WWII
What is women taking roles that were typically reserved for men such as manufacturing?
This is a type of business where one company owns an entire industry with little to no competition.
What is a Monopoly?
A practice where business owners would hire thugs to stop workers from using collective action
This war with a European country, though short, ended with American an victory and gave America many small islands around North America
What is the Spanish-American war?
These were often given out too often leading to massive debt
What are loans and / or buying on margin?
These two cities were nuked by America in an attempt to end the war with Japan quickly
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This man was the first to successfully mass produce cars and is known for going a bit crazy as he got older.
Who is Henry Ford?
This demographic was often forced to work the hardest / longest due to their energy and lack of power
What are children?
This president used his 'Big Stick' policy to passively threaten countries with the power of the U.S. military
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This environmental disaster devastated the Great Plains and created a food shortage.
What was the Dust Bowl?
This campaign was created by an African American Pittsburgh newspaper and aimed to support America winning the war and fight Jim Crow
What was the Double-V campaign?
Being on this would allow anyone (with the knowledge and means) to buy a tiny fraction of a company
What is the stock market?
This book heavily influenced the food industry by showing the dark secrets of meatpacking plants
What is Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle?
This was the foreign policy of Taft and used money to persuade countries into doing what the U.S. wants.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
These were the three R's of the New Deal
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This was the result of Executive Order 9066
What is the creation of forced Japanese internment camps?