Long, Long Ago when I had all my Aura Points
The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as these.
What is the Bill of Rights?
In the Civil War this side had the advantage in population and manufacturing which helped it win the war.
What is the North (Union)?
Two immigration "factors" why someone leave their home country. Like poverty, war, natural disasters, lack of opportunity, forced conscription, safety, famine, political instability...
What are push and pull factors?
This is a social insurance program that provides financial assistance to retired and disabled Americans
What is the Social Security Act?
At its worst unemployment hit this number during the Great Depression.
What is 25%?
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press and freedom of speech.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This document declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
New immigrants often take dangerous low paying jobs in factories, mines, and railroad construction because they often lack this.
What are skills or education?
Because FDR was afflicted with polio, she had to be his eyes, ears, legs, and conscience in his later years.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
October 29th, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
This Amendment states, "Any powers that the Constitution does not give to the federal government belong to the states."
What is the 10th Amendment?
Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations. (My country is the best and yours sucks mentality)
What is Nationalism?
Upton Sinclair's intended this novel to expose the horrible working conditions, but readers were more concerned with the unsanitary conditions.
What is the Jungle?
Evolution and Creationism were pitted against another in this famous trial.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Investing in securities using borrowed money from brokers to make investments.
What is buying on margin?
Primary reason(s) why the Colonists rebelled against the British?
What is...
Freedom of religion
Freedom of speech
Taxation without representation
"They rode in on horses, and flew out on airplanes"
This statement refers to this Great War.
What is WWI?
In the 1920s, this new manufacturing process made products faster and cheaper.
What is the assembly line?
During the 1920s women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for prevailing codes of decent behavior.
Who were flappers?
Dissatisfied with the way President Hoover handled the Great Depression, voters elected him to office in 1932.
Who is FDR?
These constitutionalists led by Hamilton preferred a strong central government as opposed to a weak one.
Who are the Federalists?
The sinking of this cruise ship was one of the causes that led to the United States joining WWI
What is the Lusitania?
Prohibition led to the rise of these nefarious groups?
What are organized crime organizations?
Supported by mostly rural areas "this" banning of alcohol lasted from 1920-1933.
What is Prohibition?
FDR's series of domestic programs, public work projects, and financial reforms and regulations with the aim of addressing the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?