Gilded Age
The time period of a small amount of very wealthy people and a large amount of very poor people living in poor conditions.
What is the Gilded Age?
The war that took place mainly in trenches from 1914-1918
WWI
The time period indicated by Jazz, flappers, and prohibition
The name of American shanty towns where homeless people lived during the Great Depression was named after the president at the time.
The attack by the Japanese in Hawai'i that begin the American participation in WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
A book that was written by Upton Sinclair exposed poor hygiene practices and showed poor labor practices, that later lead to the Pure Food and Drug Act
What is The Jungle?
A major cause of WWI
The sinking of the Lusitania
OR
Zimmerman Telegram
OR
Unrestricted submarine Warfare
A man who used assembly lines in car manufacturing and created affordable cars for the masses and high daily wages
Who is Henry Ford?
A law that protected American savings in bank accounts to reassure Americans that their savings were safe
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
FDIC
The place where Japanese American Citizens were forced to go during WWII out of fear that they were "Enemy Spies"
What are internment camps?
A robber baron who made his money in steel and then tried to participate in philanthropy, building libraries, and music venues.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The passage through Latin America in order to make faster shipping times for Americans
What is the Panama Canal?
A law created by the 18th Amendment and repealed by the 21st Amendment that banned alcohol
What is Prohibition?
A governmental choice to push Mexican Americans out of the country in order to provide more jobs for White Americans
Mexican Repatriation
A group of Native Americans helped pass information during the war using codes.
Who are the Navajo Code Talkers?
The process of forcing Native Americans to become more like white Americans through laws like the Dawes Act
The ship that exploded in Havana Harbor, allowing the United States to start the Spanish American War in Cuba
What is the USS Maine?
The fear of communism lead to attacks on people suspected of communist sympathies by the Attorney General
Palmer Raids
OR
Red Scare
A natural disaster that was caused by poor farming practices and drought
What is the Dust Bowl?
The systematic and planned murder of Jewish people, Roma, Political opponents, and Gay people by the Nazis
What is the Holocaust?
The belief that people should be in control of the government, often lead by farmers who wanted the Free coinage of silver and voted for William Jennings Bryan
What is populism?
The island nation taken over by Sanford B Dole in order to support missionaries and sugar plantations.
What is Hawai'i?
A time period of Black creativity with poets, artists, and writers focused in one new york neighborhood
Great Migration
OR
Harlem Renaissance
A cause of the Great Depression
(AT LEAST TWO)
Bank Failures
Stock Market Crash
Tariffs
Job loss
The project that created the Atomic Bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico
What is the Manhatten Project?