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People
Progressive Movement
WWI
Immigrants
1920's
100
Perfected the incandescent light bulb, created an electrical power system, and organized power plants.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Women's right to vote.
What is suffrage?
100
An agreement Germany signed to stop fighting and end the war.
What is an armistice?
100
Favoritism towards native-born Americans.
What is nativism?
100
These were first used to deliver mail.
What are airplanes?
200
Novelist and humorist who wrote books that have become American classics.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
The law that required truthful labels.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
200
A famous fighter pilot of WWI who fought the dreaded Flying Circus.
Who is Eddie Rickenbacker?
200
An act that banned Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
This enabled people to buy goods over an extended period, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase.
What is the installment plan?
300
Invented the typewriter.
Who is Christopher L. Sholes?
300
The banning of alcoholic beverages.
What is prohibition?
300
A system in which a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups.
What is the convoy system?
300
An agreement to limit the amount of unskilled Japanese workers into the U.S.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
300
This person was responsible for the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Who is Albert B. Fall?
400
Created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
Studies to see just how quickly tasks could be performed.
What is scientific management?
400
The British liner that was sank off the coast of Ireland by a U-boat.
What is the Lusitania?
400
The two immigration stations new immigrants had to pass through before being admitted into the United States.
What is Ellis Island and Angel Island?
400
This raised taxes on goods coming into the U.S.
What is the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?
500
Wrote "The Jungle"
Who is Upton Sinclair?
500
Two goals of the Progressive Movement.
Protecting social welfare Promoting moral improvement Creating economic reform Fostering efficiency
500
Three Causes of WWI.
Militarism Nationalism Imperialism Alliance System
500
This was designed to assimilate people of wide-ranging cultures into the dominant culture.
What is the Americanization Movement?
500
Two reasons why the labor movement lost appeal.
Much of the work force consisted of immigrants willing to work in poor conditions. Since immigrants spoke many languages it was hard for unions to get organized. Farmers who migrated to cities were used to relying on themselves. Most unions excluded African Americans.