It's Called "Progress"
After nearly 50 years of struggle, the _________________ gave women the right to vote throughout the country. Ironically, despite women leading a vocal charge against Prohibition, the __________________ was made into law first.
What are the 19th Amendment and the 18th Amendment?
This Pacific area was a critical waystation for US-Asian trade routes. It was annexed into the US in 1893.
What is Hawaii?
This president wanted to maintain a position of neutrality at the dawn of WWI.
Who is Wilson?
In the aftermath of WWI, thousands of African Americans moved to the North in the U.S. to work in factories and get away from discrimination in the South. This was called what?
What was the Great Migration
After nearly a decade of American prosperity, this 1929 event precipitated the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash? Also acceptable: What is Black Tuesday?
In 1910, W.E.B. DuBois, and other African Americans founded what civil rights group that still exists today?
What is the NAACP
What is the extension of a nation’s territory, and sometimes creating an empire?
What is imperialism?
The U.S. government financed the war through what method?
What is selling Liberty (or war) bonds
These people felt that immigrants were poisoning American values, morals, and society and fought to limit immigration
Who are Nativists?
Name four of the six factors of the Great Depression.
What are: Unequal distribution of wealth; buying on credit; bank collapses; tariffs, stock speculation; agricultural overproduction
What was this 19th century event when the following things happened?
–People panicked and traded in their paper money for gold and silver; this panic spread to Wall street where prices of stock fell rapidly; the price of silver plunged causing silver mines to close; –by the end of the year, over 15,000 businesses and 500 banks collapsed; –3 million people lost their job
What is the Panic of 1893
This is one example of America's increasing footprint in Latin America:
-Many Americans sympathetic to Cuban cause- desire for independence
-Explosion of the USS Maine off the coast of Cuba
What is the Spanish-American War?
What were the four M.A.I.N. causes of WW1
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism
An illegal bar that sold alcohol; independent spaces or hidden as part of another business
What is a speakeasy
This is the name given to the environmental catastrophe that affected much of the Great Plains from Oklahoma, Texas to the Dakotas.
What is the Dust Bowl?
What is a monetary system where the gov’t would give citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper money or checks?
What is bimetallism
What was was a nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War? Teddy Roosevelt was a part of it.
Who are the Rough Riders?
This 1918 act was a broad law that restricted criticism of America's involvement in World War I or its government, flag, military, taxes, or officials. It led to the Post-Master General banning antiwar or radical newspapers and magazines from the mail and was the first wave of targeting enemy sympathizers, and included intelligence and espionage, wiretapping and bugging and other forms of monitoring and surveillance.
HINT: We had a similar act during John Adam's presidency
What is the Sedition Act
Who had short hair, shorter dresses, more makeup; rebellious, smoking, drinking, etc.
-Challenged roles in society
Who were the Flappers
This New Deal legislation insured deposits in banks up to a certain amount
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or (FDIC)
Who said the following in a fiery speech:
"Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the tollers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
Who is William Jennings Bryan
What is the the reporting of scandalous and exaggerated stories in newspapers to increase sales?
What is Yellow Journalism
Although Congress never ratified it, this was the treaty that ended WWI and was the result of the armistice between the Central Powers and the Allies.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Traditional Vs. Modern: Religion Vs. Science
What was the name of the case where high school Biology teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution in Tennessee school (1925); it was against the law to teach evolution in TN;
-Prosecuting attorney = William Jennings Bryan
-Defense attorney = Clarence Darrow
What was the Scopes (Monkey) Trial
These laws were passed in the South after the Civil War and included segregation in…
–Schools -- Hospitals
–Theaters -- Water fountains
–Restaurants
–Hotels
–Public transportation
–and some states outlawed inter-racial marriages
What are Jim Crow Laws