Vocabulary
The lowest amount an employer can pay someone to work per hour
Minimum Wage
Name four countries involved in World War I
Great Britain, France, Germany, and Austria-Hungary, United States, Mexico
The cause of Prohibition was what
Christian/religious movements.
What was an immediate cause of the great depression?
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Due to "sin" there was a policy created that made it illegal to have anything to due with alcohol.
Prohibition
This was the President of the US during World War I
Woodrow Wilson
People migrating to the eastern part of the US to try to find land to work because their farm became a product of this.
Dust Bowl
Spending money you really do not have. "Buy now, pay later."
credit
The new way of fighting during WWI that was better than the previous way of stalemate fighting.
Trench Warfare
A time when everyone was buying legal and illegal goods on credit and spending money that they didn't have.
Roaring 20s
Who/what caused WWII
Germany's quest for world domination (Hitler)
Fighting for the right to vote.
Suffrage.
The land between the trenches that made you a target for your opponent.
No-mans land
To make prices rise and fall in economics it relies on this buying and selling system.
Supply and Demand
President Hoover's response to the economy that some would consider lazy.
Laissez Faire Economics
Three positive outcomes of World War I.
18th Amendment, the 19th Amendment, and The Roaring 20s
Business that were used to support organized crime like the selling of alcohol.
Speakeasies
FDRs policy to try and fix the economy and bring people out of the depression.
New Deal
One outcome of WWII
United Nations created, Soviet Union and the US became the 2 super powers of the world (Cold War)