WWI
This is where the majority of the soldiers fought the war from.
What are trenches of No Man's Land?
This is the name associated with the Stock Market Crash on Tuesday, October 29, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
President Woodrow Wilson created this plan for Peace after WWI.
What is the Fourteen Points Peace Plan?
He wrote "The Jungle" which aroused widespread public indignation at the low quality of and impurities in processed meats and thus helped bring about the passage of federal food-inspection laws.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This people/ethnicity was denied access to the United States in the late 19th century and into the 1920's.
Who are the Chinese people?
Name the four causes of WWI (MAIN).
What is imperialism, nationalism, militarism, and alliances?
Nickname for the women in the 1920's who flaunted modern dress and conduct.
Who is a Flapper?
Two causes of the Great Depression.
1. installment buying
2. buying on margin
3. speculation
4. Stock Market Crash (historians differ on this)
This is reporter/writer that exposes filth of society.
What is a Muckraker?
The unemployment rate at its highest during the Great Depression.
What is 25%?
The Zimmerman note from Germany to Mexico brought the US into WWI. What 3 US states did Germany promise Mexico?
What are Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona?
He "looked" like a president.
Three "alphabet agencies" of the New Deal and what they stand for---
Catholic priest - blamed Jews for economic problems of the Depression.
Who is Father Coughlin?
This was the name of FDR's plan to pull the USA out of the Great Depression?
What is New Deal?
This treaty officially ended WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
He said that the "business of America was business."
Who was Coolidge?
Election of 1912--three main candidates and their parties. Who won?
What are...
Democrats-Wilson-----WINNER
Republicans-Taft
Progressive-Th. Roosevelt
The fear of communism, socialism, and anarchism in the early 1900's and lasting for decades.
What the Red Scare?
This was the debate at the Scopes Trial debate.
What is teaching evolution in public schools?
May 7, 1915
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
The 4 Progressive Era Amendments and what they changed:
What are:
16th - Income tax
17th - Election of US Senators by the people
18th - Prohibition
19th - Women's right to vote
Name the three parts of T Roosevelt's Square Deal?
What are:
Conservation
Consumer Protection
Corporate Regulation
Brownsville Incident-1906--what happened?
What is...White townspeople blamed the African-American soldiers of the 25th Infantry recently stationed at nearby Fort Brown. President Theodore Roosevelt discharged without honor the entire regiment of 167 men, despite the fact that all the soldiers asserted their innocence.
What did the 20th amendment change?
What did the 21st amendment change?
20th - What are when the president is inaugurated - Now January 20 (used to be March 4)
21st - Repealed Prohibition