Terms
What is a ghetto?
The part of a city where members of a minority group live
What happened in October 1917?
The Bolshevik Revolution overthrew the provional government and set up the Communist State
Who was Margaret Sanger?
A women's rights advocate that was a strong supporter of abortion. She founded the Planned Parenthood organization for birth control
What is Hemophilia?
A disease where your blood doesn't clot properly, causing you to bleed out
Who were The Wright Brothers?
They invented the first plane
What was the Spirit of St. Louis
The plane that Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic to Paris
What was the Kellogg Brand Pact?
An international Agreement where signatory nations renounced war as a tool of national policy and agreed to settle disputes peacefully
Who was Louis Armstrong?
A prominent jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance
What was the 18th Amendment?
Prohibition
Who was Tsar Nicholas Romanov II?
The Tsar of Russia during and after World War I who was eventually abdicated from the throne
What is Credit?
The ability to but goods at the time with the promise to pay later
What was the Washington Conference?
The conference where the 4, 5, and 9 Powers Treaties came from
Who were Karl Marx and Jozef Engels?
The two inventors of Communism who wrote the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital
What was the Model T?
Henry Ford's car that sold 15 million in 21 years
Who was Carrie Nation?
A passionate defender of Prohibition who went into saloons with a hatchet and smashed pretty much anything alcoholic
What is Eugenics?
The practice of trying to control the human race which people may become parents
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Was the African American cultural movement that involved the A.A. people celbrating their culture through art, music like jazz, and other things like literature.
Who was Felix Yusopov?
The man's whose house where Rasputin was killed
What is Installment Buying?
Let's you purchase items while paying for them in regular fixed payments
Who was Gregory Rasputin?
The mystic the could supposedly heal someone by having them look into his eyes
What is Speculation?
Making a risky financial bet on an asset
What happened in February 1917
The Bolshevik Revolution that overthrew the Tsar and set up the Provisional Government
Who was Langston Hughes?
An American poet during the Harlem Renaissance
What is a Speakeasy?
Illegal bars during Prohibition
Who was Alexi Romanov
Tsar Nicholaus II's hemophiliac son