Gilded Age
A period of innovations, rise of new industries, large cities, and industrial production.
What is Gilded Age?
Female social reformer who organized a national crusade to end lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This changed the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This event marked the beginning of Great Depression
What is the stock market crash or Black Tuesday?
First African American to be elected president of the US
Who is Barack Obama?
The first African American civil rights organization founded by W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington
What is the NAACP?
This president resulted in the passage of the 22nd Amendment
Who was FDR?
This president failed to solve the Great Depression in its early stages
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This was the worst scandal in presidental history that caused Richard Nixon to resign from office
What was Watergate/the Watergate Scandal?
These organizations fought for better working conditions and the ban of child labor.
What are labor unions?
This group of people were reporters/journalists who exposed issues in society
Who are muckrakers?
This is the only Amendment to have ever been repealed
What is the 18th Amendment?
This event brought the US out of the Great Depression
What is WW2?
This is the only president to have pardoned another president.
Who was Gerald Ford?
First form of mass transportation that was completed in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
These two books described what conditions were like in tenements and meat packing plants in large cities.
What are The Jungle and How the Other Half Live?
These amendments gave two groups of people suffrage that had previously been denied it.
What are the 15th and 19th Amendments?
These are the two causes of the Dustbowl
What are overfarming and drought?
These two presidents were impeached for actions during their terms
Who are Bill Clinton and Donald Trump?
The most infamous political machine AND boss from New York City. Known for stealing millions of dollars and major levels of corruption.
What is Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed/William Tweed?
These three reforms allowed for voters to have more power over the government by voting directly on laws and removing political officials from office.
What are initiative, referendum, and recall?
This Amendment was the primary focus in the court cases Tinker v Des Moines and Wisconsin v Yoder
What is the 1st Amendment?
These four New Deal agencies are still in affect today
What are FDIC, SSA, SEC, and TVA?
This is a trend that began during the Vietnam War and has continued into modern day.
What is distrust in government?