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New law made it illegal to make, sell or transport liquor.
What is prohibition?
100
A emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes
What is a flapper?
100
Woodrow Wilson and Democrat party.
What is winning candidate and party of the 1916 Presidential Election?
100
The entire U.S. _____ was focused on the war effort.
What is the economy?
100
One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
What is the Treaty of Versailles and who was it between with?
200
new form of communication where news was delivered faster and to a larger audience and American could hear the voice of the president or listen to the World Series live.
What is the radio?
200
a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars that took place between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
Charles Forbes, head of the Veterans’ Administration, wasted hundreds of millions of dollars. For example, he bought overpriced, unneeded supplies. Attorney General Harry Daugherty accepted money from criminals. Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall took bribes in return for federal oil reserve leases.
What is Harding scandals?
200
gives President Wilson the power to direct control over the economy
Who is Congress?
200
A battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire.
What is the First Battle of Somme?
300
a large scale population shift for hundreds of thousands of blacks from the south to Northern cities
What is the Great Migration?
300
Founding member of NAACP who also led a march of 10,000 black men in NY to protest violence.
What is WEB Dubois?
300
Nationalism Imperialism Militarism Alliance System
What is the four long-term causes of WW1?
300
consumer economy to war economy required a collaboration between business and government.
What is the economy shift during WW1?
300
A understanding that consisted of France, Britain, and Russia. A military alliance among Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Italy.
What is Triple Entente and Central Powers?
400
declared one day a week “meatless” another “sweetless” and two days “wheatless”
What is Food Administration?
400
Took control of the Chicago liquor business by killing off his competition.
What is Al Capone?
400
"Fourteen Points" No secret treaties Freedom of the Seas More free trade Reduction of arms Less colonialism League of Nations to promote peace
What is Wilson's plan for peace called and what were his "points?"
400
-Road construction boomed, and new businesses opened along the routes. -Other car-related industries included steel, glass, rubber, asphalt, gasoline, and insurance. -Workers could live farther away from their jobs. -Families used cars for leisure trips and vacations. -Fewer people traveled on trolleys or trains.
What is cars changing America?
400
two parallel systems crossed France from Belgium to Switzerland
What is deep trenches during WW1?
500
Led the agency and persuaded many of the nation’s artists to create thousands of paintings, posters, cartoons and sculptures to promote the war?
What is George Creel?
500
Marriage was based on romantic love, women managed the household and finances, and children were not considered laborers/ wage earners but rather developing children who needed nurturing and education.
What is changing in the modern family?
500
providing (selling) the allied forces dynamite, cannon powder, submarines, copper wire and tubing and other war material
What is America's involvement the first two years of WW1?
500
raising money and convincing the public to support the war
What is the U.S.'s tasks for supporting the war?
500
a British passenger liner that carried 1,198 persons on a on May 7, 1915 when a German U-boat sank the British passenger liner killing all aboard including 128 American tourists.
What is Lusitania disaster?