Gilded Age
This invention allowed companies to work longer
What is the Light bulb
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The use of _________warfare resulted in death tolls never before scene in war.
What is "Trench" wafare
What term was used for "liberated woman" during the 1920's
What is a "Flapper girl"
What Act provided help for the elderly and disabled
What is the Social Security Act?
Japanese bomb this base. Resulting in America entering the War
What is Pearl Harbor?
U.S. Born, but does not want immigrants coming to the U.S.
What is a Nativist?
This Amendment prohibited alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
A war where the U.S. claimed territories such as Cuba, Phillipines and Puerto Rico
What is the Spanish American War?
During WW I and into the 1920's African Americans started migrating North and West to cities for better opportunities.
What was the "Great Migration"
What Act did politicians have a concern about people becoming dependent on the government
What is the Social Security Act?
Took on large roles while men were overseas fighting
Who are Women?
This act allowed Indians to own land and sell to non-native settlers
What is the Dawes Act
This Act was in response to the reporting and book "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmerman Telegram and the sinking of the Luisitania caused the U.S. to.
What is entering WWI
Fear of Communism infiltrating America
What is the Red Scare?
This event in October 1929 became known as "Black Thursday"
What is the Stock Market Crash?
People planted ___________gardens to help the war effort.
What are victory Gardens?
This Act excluded Chinese immigrants from having jobs.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Organization created by W.E.B. Dubois to protect minorities
What is the NAACP?
The policy of staying out of other countries wars/business and taking care of ourselves.
What is Isolationism?
A growth in middle-class African Americans gave a new confidence and pride in their heritage.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Unemployment at 25%, Banks failing, "Hoovervilles", Foreclosure of homes are effects
What is the Great Depression?
European dictator annexed Austria then invaded Poland in 1939
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This Act promoted settllement of the Great Plains (West)
What is the Homestead Act?
Organizations developed to help provide better working conditions and pay.
What are Unions?
President Wilson's plan included freedom of the seas, cooperation between nations, and Poland an Independent Country
What is Wilson's 14 points?
Showed that air travel was an acceptable form of transportation.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Over tilling of land and long drought brought about this disaster.
What is the "Dust Bowl?"
June 6, 1944 invasion by the allies at Normandy
What is D-Day?
This form of transportation helped the settlement of the West
What is the Transcontinental railroad?
This party worked to help farmers by advocating for free coinage
The Populist party?
This treaty in 1919 ended WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Hidden bars where illegal alcohol is served
What are Speakeasies?
An Act that sent Mexican immigrants back to Mexico
What is the Mexican Repatriation Act?
Many captured U.S. soldiers died during this forced march in the Philippines.
What is the Bataan Death march?
This Act kept a business from taking complete control over an Industry
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
a journalist or writer who exposes corruption, abuses of power, and social injustices within society
What is a "Muckraker"
Admiral Mahan believed that overseas expansion supported by a Large_________ would ensure the U.S., was a world power.
What is a Navy?
California & Wyoming, Politicians sell rights to drill for kickbacks without allowing bids from other companies, Big Scandal,
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Name of FDR's programs to help citizens recovery from the Depression
What is the New Deal?
The atomic bomb was developed by the ______________ project
What is the Manhattan Project?
This Act regulated railroad prices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This female social activist developed the Settlement House Movement to help assimilate immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
This Act limited the freedom of speech and expression during WWI.
What is the Espionage Act of 1917?
This President wanted to create economic prosperity (more money) by lowering taxes and increasing production.
Who is Warren G. Harding
What court did FDR want to change because he felt they were obstructing his policies.
What is the Supreme Court?
Those who were responsible for coded communications that was never cracked
Who were the Navajo Code talkers
This Entrepenure monopolized the steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What platorm called for initiative, referendum and recall
What is the Progressive State Reform Platform?
General of the American Expeditionary Forces during WWI
Who is General John J. Pershing?
A melting pot of music publishing in New York and helped popularize jazz music.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
Federal government's program to guarantee people's bank deposits.
What is the FDIC?
Jewish people being systematically killed in camps
What is the Holocaust?
This entrepenure monopolized the oil industry
Who is John D. Rockefeller
Service created by Theodore Roosevelt to preserve America's scenery
What is the National Park Service?
Obstacles such as digging through difficult terrain, malaria, lifting ships above sea level during its construction.
What is the Panama Canal?
Automobiles were massed produced at an affordable cost due to this manufacturing process
What is Ford's Assembly line?
FDR's New Deal program was summarized by the three R's
What are Relief, Recovery and Reform?
This was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is the Atomic Bomb?