Gilded Age
He built an steel empire by mastering the Bessemer Process which made steel faster and stronger.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Constitutional Amendment allows Congress to levy income taxes without regard to population.
What is the 16th Amendment?
He campaigned for President in the 1916 election using the slogan "He Kept Us Out of War".
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This movement encouraged poetry, jazz, art and was made famous by Americans such as Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Over-farming and the destruction of the prairies in the midwestern states led to this this which created dirt and dust to blow across the nation.
What is the Dust Bowl?
He was an oil tycoon known for creating the first monopoly between oil industry and transportation industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This Movement sought to rid the United States of drinking alcohol.
What is the Temperence Movement?
This message between Germany and Mexico promised to give territory from the U.S. back to Mexico in exchange for Mexico keeping the U.S. from entering WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This Constitutional Amendment sought to rid the United States of alcoholic beverages by making the sale and distribution of it illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This president created jobs for Americans by establishing government agencies such as Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Social Security Administration and Civil Works Administration
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller made millions of dollars in competition with each other to be the richest man in the world only to spend their later years giving it away to build libraries, museums, and public parks for the public to enjoy and learn.
What is philanthropy?
This Constitution Amendment called for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This treaty ended WWI and made Germany and the Central Powers pay reparations for starting WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This "new" woman of the 1920's allowed women to wear shorter dresses, short hair as well as gave her a new sense of "freedom" from the social norms.
What is a "Flapper"?
This Constitutional Amendment ended Prohibition by recalling the 18th Amendment.
What is the 21st Amendment?
He authored the "Gospel of Wealth" which he stated that a man should spend a third of his life getting an education, another third making his fortune, and the last third giving back to society.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Theodore Roosevelt's independent political party to regain the presidency.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
This cruise ship was sunk by a German U-Boat that killed American passengers on board and angered the United States.
What is the Lusitania?
October 29th, 1929 also known as "Black Tuesday because of this event.
What is the NY Stock Market Crash?
Also known as "Scarface", he was a major gangster in Chicago yet was also loved by many people for his philanthropy.
Who is Al Capone?
He began his career transporting goods via ships but later sold his shipping fleet and reinvested in trains to ship goods from coast to coast. He is known as "The Commodore".
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Alice Paul, Helen Keller, Susan B. Anthony are best known for the their work to gain this right for women
What is Suffrage?
Name three new technologies/weapons that came from WWI.
What are; Tanks, Airplanes, Mustard Gas, Machine Guns?
The 1920's saw these three presidents.
Who are Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover?
Although, known for his economic genius, he was president when the NY Stock Market crashed and lost the 1932 presidential election to Franklin Roosevelt.
Who is Herbert Hoover?