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This amendment gave African American Males the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This hate group used violence and intimidation to oppose civil rights and maintain segregation.
What is the KKK?
This new medium of entertainment became widespread in homes and helped unify American culture.
What is the radio?
He was the president when the Great Depression began.
Who is President Herbert Hoover?
He was the dictator of Germany during WWII.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This type of music was made popular
What is Rock n Roll?
State one of the hazards of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
What is only one elevator was working, the Fire truck couldn't reach the top floor, door was locked, no sprinkler system.
Define Nativism
What is a strong dislike of immigrants.
This new type of music, which originated in African American communities, became very popular in the 1920s.
What is Jazz?
What day of the week did the stock market crash on?
What is Tuesday?
These countries made up the Axis Powers.
What is Japan, Germany, and Italy?
This helped millions of veterans buy homes and get an education
What is the GI Bill?
What are fireside chats?
What are conversations held by FDR using the radio to talk to the American people.
What happened at the Haymarket Riot?
What is a bomb went off killing 8 cops
Women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and challenged traditional roles were called this.
What are Flappers?
In 1932, this group of WWI veterans marched on Washington demanding early payment of their bonuses, only to be removed by the army.
Who is the Bonus Army?
This was the turning point of the war for the Allies
What is Operation D-Day?
He was the president involved in the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
How did Germany start WWII?
What is invading Poland?
Located in New York, Immigrants were checked here to enter the U.S.
What is Ellis Island?
This invention gave Americans more freedom and was mass-produced by Henry Ford.
What is the Model T Car? What is the car?
This environmental disaster of the 1930s turned farmland into a dry, dusty wasteland and forced thousands of families to leave their homes.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The reason Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps.
America felt suspicious that Japanese Americans were spies.
Nixon avoided impeachment by doing this in August 1974.
What is he resigned?
When a larger country takes over a smaller/weaker country.
What is imperialism?
Her journalist pen name is IOLA.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This economic behavior became more common as Americans purchased goods they couldn’t immediately afford.
What is credit? What is installment plans?
To examine the Banks after the crash, what did FDR do?
What is the Banking Holiday?
He gave the order to drop the Atomic Bombs
Who is Harry S Truman?
Children born during the 1950s are given this nickname.
What is Baby Boomers?
State two ways African Americans were discriminated against when it came to voting.
What is Poll Taxes & Literacy Tests?
This Act gave 160 to Americans to move west and farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
Where was Black Wall Street Located?
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
Define Rugged Individualism
What is the belief that Americans should not rely on the government to help them financially, but should rely on charities and other state organizations?
A strong sense of pride in one's country
What is Nationalism?
This set of proposals by President Truman aimed to expand New Deal programs
What is the Fair Deal?