Gilded Age
Great Depression
Cold war/Progressive Era
Amendments to the Constitution
WWI/WWII
100
Period from 1865 to 1900 where entrepreneurs were able to reap huge profits for themselves. It was a period of new innovations, rise of new industries, and production.
What is Gilded Age?
100

The worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939

What is the Great Depression

100

What is the name of the female social reformer who lead an anti-lynching campaign and organized a national crusade.

Who is Ida B. Wells?

100

What is the name of the amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that changed the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.

What is the 26th Amendment?

100

Regulated the amount of goods that a consumer could obtain. During WWII this method was introduced to avoid public anger over shortages and share in the sacrifices of war.

What is rationing?

200
Inventor of the light bulb. The creation of electricity lead to the rise of machines, streetcars and subway trains.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200

Stock Market Crash of 1929 

Bank Failures

Reduction in Purchasing Across the Board 

American Economic Policy with Europe 

Drought Conditions

What are the causes of The Great Depression 

200

What is the name of the idea that fell over Eastern Europe and Western Europe to cut off travel and communication. Eastern European nations become "satellites" of the Soviet Union?

What is Iron Curtain?

200
The amendment to the U.S. Constitution that repealed the 18th amendment on prohibition (the ban or sale of alcohol)?
What is 21st Amendment?
200
Order permitted military commanders to require Japanese Americans to relocate to interior interment camps away from Western coastal regions. What is the name of the law created by President Roosevelt during WWII?
What is Executive Order 9066?
300
Labor union that was created by Samuel Gompers, was a national federation of Different craft unions of skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
300

A series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans

What is The New Deal

300

Event were U.S. and its allies supplied West Berlin. When the Western allies Russia created a blockade between Eastern and Western Berlin.

What is Berlin Airlift?

300
Amendment that allows for the direct election of senators?
What is 17th Amendment?
300
British passenger ship that left NY City for Liverpool. A German submarine sank this passenger ship, killing more than 1,000. What is the name of this sink?
What is the Lusitania?
400
First mass for of transportation that was completed in 1869. It made it possible to travel to California.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
400

Social Security Act of 1935,

What is students had the right to wear armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War as freedom of speech under 1st amendment?

400

Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP). He believed that African Americans should be aggressive and fight for equal opportunities.

What is W.E.B. DuBois?

400
What is the purpose of the 16th Amendment?
What is allows for income tax?
400
Declaration of the principle of "freedom of the seas"----the right of neutral nations like the U.S. to ship non-military goods to nations at war. What is the name of this idea?
What is Unrestricted submarine warfare?
500
What is the name of the event where labor leaders were blamed when a bomb exploded during the demonstration of striking workers at Square in Chicago.
What is Haymrket Affair?
500

The sharp reductions in spending, taxes and regulation at the end of World War II

What is what ended the Great Depression and prosperity restored

500
What is the name of the group of individuals that examined the rise of industry and examined business practices affecting consumers?
Who are Muckrakers?
500

Describe the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

What is if the President of the U.S. resigned or dies in office the Vice-President becomes President

500

The final terms that ended up being extremely harsh to Germany and other defeated powers. This was often called the "War Guilt" clause to the agreement that made germany pay for the war.

What is trench Treaty of Versailles?

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