The Great Depression
Herbert Hoover.
who was president when the Great Depression began?
It was a decade of prosperity and dissipation, and of jazz bands with lots of party's.
What decade is known as the Roaring 20's?
What is the basic definition of power.
Power is the ability to influence or control the behavior of others or the course of events?
Progressive Era.
Was a period of social, political, and economic reform in the United States from the 1890s to the 1920s?
The Gilded Age.
A period of rapid economic growth, political corruption, and social inequality in the U.S. from the 1870s to the 1900s?
the Great Depresion in 1929.
The Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)?
popular movement advocating for women’s right to vote gained momentum during the 1920s.
The Women’s Suffrage Movement?
Built on May 4, 1904. Connects the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean allowing for faster and more efficient trade.
what was the Panama canal?
Who was the president during the majority of the Progressive Era.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Andrew Carnegie dominated the steel industry during the Gilded Age.
Andrew Carnegie dominated what industry during the gilded age?
Franklin D. Roosevelt introduce to address the economic crisis.
The New Deal was introduced by who and why?
The Harlem Renaissance.
The Harlem Renaissance?
Allows all nations to have equal opportunities. (A Statement of principles initiated by the United States in the 1899s).
What is the Open Door Policy?
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
.It aimed to break up monopolies and prevent anti-competitive practices in business?
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
.Aimed to limit immigration from China and prevent Chinese workers from entering the U.S.?
The agency created to provide jobs and build public infrastructure during the New Deal.
The Works Progress Administration(WPA) was meant for what?
1920s law that prohibited the production, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
Prohibition (18th Amendment)?
Cuba is liberated from Spanish control and the U.S. can intervene to protect Cuba's right to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness", U.S. is allowed to Maintain a military base in Cuba (Guantanamo Bay), Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico became U.S. territories
What was the Treaty of Paris?
Fought for women’s suffrage during the Progressive Era.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.
Was the first federal law to regulate railroads, ensuring fair rates and practices across state lines?
Famous U.S. dust storm event worsened the agricultural crisis during the Great Depression.
What was the Dust bowl?
1920s inventor revolutionized the automobile industry with mass production techniques.
Henry Ford was known for?
Turning point of world war 1, Succeeded in its objective to capture and break important German railroad stations, Final allied offensive that forced Germans to agree to the armistice
what was the Battle of Argonne Frest?
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
It required accurate labeling of food and medicines and banned harmful ingredients, ensuring consumer safety?
political party was associated with the patronage system during the Gilded Age.
he Republican Party, particularly through the actions of political machines like Tammany Hall, was closely linked to the patronage system during this period?