Industrial Revolution
The three goals that labor unions sought to achieve during the Industrial Revolution
What are:
1. Shorter Hours
2. Higher Pay
3. Safer Conditions
The psychological condition that affected many veterans returning home after WWI
What is Shell Shock?
The event that took place in 1929 due to the care free economic practices of people during the Roaring 20's
The industrialist who formed a monopoly in the Oil industry using a horizontal integration business approach.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The style of fighting that was most common in WWI
The terms that describe whether a person is driven out or attracted to a country when considering immigration (must use both terms in answer)
What are Push & Pull Factors of Immigration?
The British luxury cruise liner that was sunk by German U-Boats, which led to the death of approximately 130 Americans
What was the Lusitania?
Young women who challenged the normal social standards by cutting their hair into bobs, wearing shorter dresses, and participated in activities that were traditionally considered masculine
What are Flappers?
The industrialist who formed a monopoly in the Steel industry using a vertical integration business approach
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The acronym for the primary causes of WWI
What is MAINS?
The term used to describe the formation of a city
What is Urbanization?
The document that was signed at the end of WWI that forced Germany to accept full blame for causing WWI, pay reparations to fix the damages of the war, and devastated Germany's economy
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
In 1920, Woodrow Wilson signed this legal document which granted American women suffrage
What is the 19th Amendment?
The person who invented the assembly line, an invention that would make products much easier to produce and also much cheaper for the average American.
Who is Henry Ford?
The photo book published by Jacob Riis that exposed the conditions of tenements and city slums to the rich of New York City?
What is How the Other Half Lives?
A journalist who took photographs, wrote news stories, and published books that exposed to the public the corrupt, disgusting, and unjust conditions that plagued the country
What is a muckraker?
When a larger country uses its military, economic, or strategic power to take control of a smaller or weaker country
What is Imperialism?
Speakeasies, bootleggers, and the rise of organized crime (such as the Mafia) became common and powerful due to this legal document
What is the 18th Amendment?
The founder of the Hull House, a settlement house, in Chicago that helped the city's poor
Who is Jane Addams?
The first ever organized meeting to discuss the Women's Suffrage movement
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
A corrupt organization that offers favors such as jobs, money, or housing to poor people or immigrants in exchange for their votes for a specific political candidate.
What is a Political Machine?
The Serbian nationalist/terrorist group that Gavrilo Princip belonged to that planned the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
What is the Black Hand?
The mass departure (moving away) of African Americans from the South to the North and West
What is the Great Migration?
Author of the book, The Jungle, which exposed the horrid conditions of food handling in the meat packing industry
Who is Upton Sinclair?
One of the new countries that was formed after the end of WWI
What are: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, E. Prussia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Turkey?