Gilded Age
Mark Twain coined the term_________, a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath. (hint: its what period/era we are studying)
What is the Gilded Age?
This Amendment allowed woman's suffrage.
19th Amendment
War started in 1898 between U.S. and Spain.
What is Spanish American War?
Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs.
What is The Great Migration?
What country signed a non-aggression pact with Germany?
Who is the Soviet Union?
Policy of ______established the strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders.
What is Containment?
The youngest person even elected president of the United States, was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Building in Washington D.C. that was the Democrat Headquarters for the 1972 election. (hint: name of Nixon's scandal)
What is Watergate?
President elected in 1988, involved in the Persian Gulf War. (Iraq/Kuwait)
Who is George H.W. Bush?
What was the name of the man, who used a mafia like group called Tammany hall, that used bribery and voter fraud to take advantage of immigrants and corrupt officials in government?
Who is Boss Tweed?
Encouraged African Americans to learn a skill or trade and get employed or start their own business. Said that Jim Crow laws would eventually end
Booker T. Washington
The explosion of what ship, which was a cause of Spanish-American War
What is USS Maine?
Those looking to get rich quick invested in the_________. However, once businesses start to fail and banks begin to close, this crashes in 1929.
What is the Stock Market?
December 7, 1941, when the Japanese.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This war started when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950. Lasted until 1953.
What is The Korean War?
Movement which called for African American power and independence, inspired by Malcom X.
What is the Black Power Movement?
The loss of this war devastated many Americans and turned them off of politics. Created a credibility gap between government and people.
What is Vietnam?
One unique feature of the presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore is that (1) the Supreme Court played an important role in the final outcome (2) no third-party candidate was on the ballot (3) both candidates had previously served as vice president (4) the electoral votes in Florida were divided between the candidates
What is the 2000 election?
This connected the East and West of the United States and made us more dependent on each other.
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
is favoring people native to that land rather than those that have immigrated.
Nativism
At the end of WWI, he created the 14 Points (Peace Plan).
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Many people were laid off (lost their job) and were not able to afford goods during the Depression. So, many people looked to start buying things on______, or buy now and pay later.
What is Credit/installment payments?
What was the name given to the African-American fighter pilots?
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This European nation was divided immediately after WWII and was later reunited in 1990.
What is Germany?
Women Hispanic activist who worked to improve economic opportunities. Created the Si Se Puede movement.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
The U.S. relied on this organization for oil beginning in the early 1970s.
What is OPEC?
Trickle down economics during Reagan's presidency where he cut taxes to businesses.
What is Reaganomics?
Federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration based on race and class. It banned Chinese laborers from entering the U.S
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
President that regulated "Trusts" known as "trust-buster" and Rough Rider
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The sinking of this ship was a reason US became involved in WWI
What is the Lusitania?
Prohibition ended with the passage of the_______ amendment.
What is the 21st Amendment?
A bomb that gets its violent power from splitting an atom
What is an Atomic Bomb?
The line between North Korea and South Korea is called ___________. It is also the location of the DMZ (demilitarized zone).
What is the 38th parallel?
The ruling in this Supreme Court case made segregation in public schools illegal
What is Brown Vs. The Board of Education?
What was a major result of the Watergate controversy?
What is the resignation of Nixon?
Law passed after the 9/11 attacks which intended to help the government agencies detect and prevent a future terrorist attack.
What is US Patriot Act of 2001?
JP Morgan controlled the_________ industry; Rockfeller controlled the___________ industry; and Carnegie controlled the_________ industry.
What is Banking (Morgan); Oil (Rockefeller), Steel (Carnegie)?
Exposed the horrible conditions of the meatpacking industry and wrote The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
The purpose of the Roosevelt Corollary was to promote this
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
This was a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime that was popular in the 1920s.
What is the Jazz Age?
Germany attacked in all directions...Fast victory - lightning war
What is blitzkrieg?
This multinational military organization was created for the purpose of mutual defense and collective security for the western nations.
What is NATO?
Nation of Islam leader who argued that integration would never solve African Americans' problems, used militant approach
Who is Malcolm X?
This was granted by Ford to Nixon and caused a great deal of controversy.
What is a pardon?
First women appointed to Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'cconor?
This Act the government trying to control business between states and was initially ineffective.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
Establish the Hull House in Chicago to help poor immigrant families. Mother of Social Work
Jane Adams
This weapon changed the way that WWI was fought. Prior to this creation wars were fought by soldiers charging each other on the battlefield. Led to more casualties in the war.
What is the Machine gun.
The literary and artistic revival in the African American community was called the ______.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Under this program the U.S. was able to help the Allies by providing supplies without getting involved in the war.
What is Lend and lease?
U.S. policy initiated by President Richard Nixon in 1969 designed to end American involvement in the Vietnam War. It involved systematically withdrawing U.S. troops
What is Vietnamization?
Gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans' voting rights
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What were Americans called that supported the Vietnam War?
What is Hawks?
Epidemic disease that is transmitted through body fluids that attacks ones immune system
What is AIDS?