Gilded Age/Progressives
When one company owns everything!
What is a monopoly?
The famous name given to the national ban on alcohol- it only lasted for 14 years!
What was Prohibition?
This famous event triggered the Great Depression.
What was the Stock Market Crash?
This event brought America into the war.
What was Pearl Harbor?
"My friends, I want to talk to the people of the United States for a few minutes about banking..."
Who was FDR?
A major element of the Progressive Movement, this is a major fight to expand America's voting population.
What was the Women's Suffrage Movement?
This Progressive President eventually became more known for his leadership during WWI- for better and worse.
Who was Wilson?
FDR's favorite New Deal program, this employed millions of young men on a mission to revitalize America's natural landscapes.
What was the CCC?
This icon became the symbol of American women's contribution to the war effort.
What was Rosie the Riveter?
"Walk softly, but carry a big stick!"
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This famous Gilded Age tycoon seized control of America's oil industry.
Who was Rockefeller?
This refers to the great growth in black culture that occurred in American cities throughout the 1920's.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
FDR famously addressed the American people through this series of radio addresses.
What were the Fireside Chats?
This became the name for FDR's order that all people of a certain ethnic group be imprisoned for the duration of the war.
What was the Japanese Internment?
(Advice to African-Americans) "Cast down your bucket where you are!"
Who was Booker Washington?
TR helped to strengthen this famous progressive-era idea, related to protecting large sections of America's wilderness.
What was the National Park System?
This refers to the decades-long period when the black population of northern cities exploded.
What was the Great Migration?
This crippling wind-driven drought became a symbol of the misery of American farmers during the Depression.
What was the Dust Bowl?
This WWII-era campaign argued that it was a war against both racism around the world, and here in the United States as well.
What was the Double V?
(Seeing people's reaction to his famous muckraking book) "I aimed for America's heart, and I hit its stomach."
Who was Upton Sinclair?
This Progressive muckraking journalist tried to expose to America the horrors of lynching.
Who was Ida Wells?
The government cracked down on civil liberties during WWI with these infamous laws.
What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
FDR's failed effort to reform the Supreme Court became known of as this.
What was Court Packing?
The famous name given to violent acts committed against young Hispanics during World War II.
What were the Zoot Suit Riots?
Who was Calvin Coolidge?