Law that provided Americans with 160 acres of cheap land provided that they farm it within 5 years
Homestead Act
Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Ida B. Wells
4 main causes of WWI
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
18th Amendment
Prohibition
Law that sent Mexican immigrants back to Mexico during the 1930's due to lack of jobs
Mexican Repatriation Act
Form of transportation that connected the East and West coasts and improved Americans standard of living by helping them receive new products
Transcontinental Railroad
Book that led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
The Jungle
What the United States was prior to joining WWI?
19th Amendment
Women's right to vote
Black Tuesday
Day that the stock market crashed
Law that tried to Americanize Native Americans by splitting up reservations and providing them with Private Property
Dawes Act
Law that broke up Monopolies
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Reasons for US Joining WWI (2 reasons)
2. Zimmerman Telegram
Government was against communism
Red Scare
Andrew Carnegie
Gold Rush in Alaska. Made difficult by harsh weather conditions and mountains
Klondike Gold Rush
War caused by the sinking of the USS Maine, Yellow Journalism, and the De Lome Letter
Spanish-American War
Turning point of WWI (battle led by John Pershing's American Expeditionary Force)
Battle of Argonne Forest
Causes of the Great Depression
Place in New York City that made sheet music available to the public
Tin Pan Alley
Steel Plow, Barbed Wire
Technology for farming
Reduced time for ships to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans
Panama Canal
League of Nations
Civilian Conservation Corps., Works Progress Administration, FDIC, SEC, Social Security Administration
FDR New Deal Programs
Law that allowed the government to regulate the railroads
Interstate Commerce Act