Gilded Age
Period from 1865 to 1900 where entrepreneurs were able to reap huge profits for themselves. It was a period of new innovations, rise of new industries, and production.
What is Gilded Age?
Describe the Domino Theory.
What is belief that if one country fell to communism, many other would follow?
What concern directly contributed to the US involvement in the Korean War during the 1950s?
A. Containing the spread of communism
B. Improving political relations with China
C. Detering the use of nuclear weapons
D. Resisting the rise of fascism in Asia
What is containing the spread of communism?
What is the name of the amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that changed the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Who are the Germany and italian dictators?
A. Stalin and Hitler
B. Mussolini and Hitler
C. Stalin and Mussolini
D. Churchill and Hitler
Who is Mussolini and Hitler?
What cause united many college students, civil rights activists during the 1960s?
What is opposing the Vietnam War?
What is the name of the idea that fell over Eastern Europe and Western Europe to "theoretically" split the continent in half. Eastern European nations become "satellites" of the Soviet Union?
What is Iron Curtain?
The amendment to the U.S. Constitution that repealed the 18th amendment on prohibition (the ban or sale of alcohol)?
What is 21st Amendment?
Why did the United States join WW1?
A. Zimmerman Note
B. Axis power aggression
C. Archduke Franz Ferdinand
D. None of the above
What is the Zimmerman Note?
Labor union that was created by Samuel Gompers, was a national federation of Different craft unions of skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
What is one reason these Amendments were added to the Constitution?
19th Amendment
24th Amendment
26th Amendment
A. Guarantee the due process of law
B. Expand the authority of the state
C. Limit the freedom of expression
D. Expand the rights of individuals participating in government.
What is expanding the rights of individuals participating in the government?
Event were U.S. and its allies supplied West Berlin. When the Western allies Russia created a blockade between Eastern and Western Berlin.
A. Containment
B. Berlin Wall
C. Berlin Airlift
D. Domino Theory
What is Berlin Airlift?
Amendment that allows for all men the ability to vote
What is 15th Amendment?
First mass form of transportation that was completed in 1869 and went through the entire country or continent. It made it possible to travel to California.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Describe what the Supreme Court Decision in Tinker v. Des Moines?
What is students had the right to wear armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War as freedom of speech under 1st amendment?
What is one way that space exploration and technology have improved the quality of life?
A. Reducing the dependence on robotics
B. Developing shields to protect homes
C. Reducing dependence on solar cells and biofuel
D. By developing satellites to send communication signals
What is by developing satellites to send communication signals?
What is the purpose of the 4nd Amendment?
What is prevents illegal search and seisure?
What events do these belong to?
*Germany invades Poland
*Japan invades Korea and China
*Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
A. Events that inspired nationalism
B. Encouraged the US to join NATO
C. Events that lead to the rejection of the US in the League of Nations.
D. Events that lead to the US involvement in WW2.
D. What are events that lead the US involvement in WW2.
What is one result of immigration to the northeastern United States during the Twentieth century?
A. Labor shortage
B. Cities became more densely populated
C. Fewer lived in settlement houses
D. Fewer diseases spread in urban population
What is cities became more densely populated?
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution increased the power of the executive branch by
A. Allowing the president to use military force without a declaration of war by Congress.
B. Authorized the president using the Senate majority leader.
C. Allows the president to introduce bills to Congress.
D. Expanded the president's rights to executive privileges.
What is expanding the president's rights to executive privileges?
What is the name of the group of individuals that examined and CRITIQUED the rise of industry and examined business practices affecting consumers?
Who are Muckrakers?
Describe the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
What is women's ability to vote?
The final terms that ended up being extremely harsh to Germany and other defeated powers. This was often called the "War Guilt" clause to this agreement or document that made Germany pay for the war.
What is trench Treaty of Versailles?