Gilded Age
Period from 1865 to 1900 where entrepreneurs were able to reap huge profits. It was a period of new innovations and a rise of new industries.
What is Gilded Age?
Describe the Domino Theory.
What is belief that if one country fell to communism, many other would follow?
What is the name of the female social reformer who lead an anti-lynching campaign and organized a national crusade.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
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?
Regulated the amount of goods that a consumer could obtain during WWII.
What is rationing?
Inventor of the light bulb. The creation of electricity lead to the rise of machines, streetcars and subway trains.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Act that allowed the President to involve America in the Vietnam War
What is Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
What is the name of the idea that Communism fell between Eastern Europe and Western Europe and cut off travel and communication.
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The amendment to the U.S. Constitution that repealed the 18th amendment on prohibition (the ban or sale of alcohol)?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?
The Order permitted military commanders to require Japanese Americans to relocate during WWII. What is the name of the law created by President Roosevelt during WWII?
What is Executive Order 9066?
Labor union that was created by Samuel Gompers, for white, male, skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
In what year was Sputnik launched?
What is 1957?
Event were U.S. and its allies supplied West Berlin. after Russia created a blockade between Eastern and Western Berlin.
What is Berlin Airlift?
Amendment that allows for the direct election of senators?
What is 17th Amendment?
Type of warfare fought during WWI?
What is trench warfare?
First mass form of transportation that was completed in 1869 and made it possible to travel from the east coast to California.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Describe what 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 the purpose of the 16th Amendment?
What is allows for income tax?
What method of warfare did the Germans use led the United States to enter WWI?
What is Unrestricted submarine warfare?
What is the name of the event where labor leaders were blamed when a bomb exploded during the demonstration of striking workers in Chicago.
What is Haymarket Affair?
What was the term that described the public’s skepticism over Pres. Johnson’s statements and realities of the Vietnam War?
What is credibility gap?
What is the name of the group of journalists like Upton Sinclair that reported on business practices affecting consumers?
Who are Muckrakers?
Describe the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
What is it ended Slavery?
The final terms that ended up being extremely harsh to Germany and other defeated powers after WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?