The French and Indian War
When was the French and Indian war fought?
What is 1754-1763
This form of media was virtually non existent in the early 1920's but became extremely popular by the end of the decade as a form of communication to reach the masses.
What is radio
This term was coined in 1845 by John O'Sullivan, implying that it is God's plan for the United States to take over and settle the entire continent. This term shaped the political debate of the era.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This act prohibited the sale of goods across state lines that were manufactures in companies that employed children under the age of 14.
What is the Keating-Owens Child Labor Law?
In 1764, through this act, the British Government shifted prosecution of smugglers from local trials to British courts in an effort increase British Revenue
What is the Sugar Act?
The French and Indian war was a battle between the British and the French over ….
What is land?
Movies were a very popular form of entertainment in the 1920's, the first "talkie movie" was ?
What is the Jazz Singer?
It was released in 1927
The Oregon trail is a 2,000 mile route that many settlers took on their journey out west. This trail runs from where to where?
What is Missouri to the Pacific Northwest?
What year was the Standard Oil trust broken up by congress?
What is 1911?
This was the first act directly implemented to increase revenue for the British Government, It was a direct tax on the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
In 1754, the colonists meet in this City to organize an intercolonial government. Ben Franklin was in attendance.
What is Albany, New York?
This book by F Scott Fitzgerald, was released in 1927 and it exposed the shallowness of the lives of the wealth and privileged of the era.
What is the Great Gatsby?
A large percentage of people that migrated to California during this time period came during this year and were searching for gold. (Hint the greatest team to ever play football in the NFL is named for this year/event)
What is 1849?
Muller vs Oregon was a supreme court decision that upheld an Oregon law to limit?
What is the number of hours that a woman could work.
This Act was signed in 1763, it was an attempt to prevent colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains in an effort to preserve relationships with the Native Americans
What is the Proclamation Act?
The second phase of the French and Indian war began in what year?
What is 1756?
The migration of blacks from the south to the north contributed to this literary, artistic and intellectual movement. Contributions included poetry of Langston Hughes, Jazz music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
During the congressional session of 1862, this group was not represented in Congress, thereby resulting in the passage of the Homestead Act, the Morreill Land Grant Act and the Pacific Railroad Act - further implementing the ideology of free labor.
What are the democrats?
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic agenda was known as this...
What is the "Square Deal'?
What is the Boston Massacre?
In the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1763, the French surrendered what portion of their north American holdings?
What is virtually all of it?
The ratification of the 18th amendment lead to the ban on the manufacture, sale and transportation of this.
What is alcohol?
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
Teddy felt that the concentration of economic power in a few hands was potentially dangerous to the economy as a whole. Roosevelt used this act to pursue "bad Trusts" to break up trusts that interfered with commerce.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
In 1774, the British Government passed a series of acts. These acts limited the power of town meetings, replaced elected officials with officials appointed by the British government and closed the port of Boston. These acts are known as..?
What are the Coercive or Intolerable Acts?