Gilded Age
belief that native born people should be treated better than immigrants
nativism
Journalists who exposed corruption in cities during the Progressive Era
Muckrakers
President of the US when we entered war.
Woodrow Wilson
Someone who smuggles alcohol?
Bootlegger
In what decade did the Great Depression mostly occur?
1930's
"Separate but Equal" is referring to what case
Plessy V Ferguson
The right to vote
Suffrage
Which of the "Powers" won WW1?
Allied
These were women who challenged society's ideas about womanhood.
flappers
Huge dust storms blew across the Prairies
Dust Bowl
corrupt powerful group that supported a corrupt local political party
Political Machine
Book written to expose light on poor working conditions and instead shined light on unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry
The Jungle
Zimmerman telegram was sent from? to?
Germany to Mexico
Music played during the Harlem Renaissance?
Jazz & Blues
The unemployed and poor often lived in "shanty towns." They were often referred to as.
Hoovervilles
a set of laws that barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This event claimed the lives of 146 people and forced companies to make working conditions safer.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
When a country expands their power and influence to other parts of the world.
Imperialism
In the Great Migration, African Americans moved from
Southern farms to the Northern cities.
Name three causes of the Great Depression
Overuse of credit
Stock Market Crash
Farm Sector Crisis
Bank Failures
All immigrants coming from Europe and Countries to the East had to go through this island before entering the United States.
Ellis Island
He believed in a gradual approach to equality for African Americans.
Booker T Washington
What was the name of Woodrow Wilson's peace plan at the conclusion of World War I?
Fourteen Points
The hysteria and paranoia over communism spreading to the U.S. after WWI
Red Scare
FDR's plan to try and add six judges to the Supreme Court to keep his New Deal programs from being called unconstitutional. This was NOT allowed by Congress, however because it was considered unconstitutional and gave him too much power
court packing scheme