Gilded Age
This form of transportation stimulated the growth of cattle ranching, mining, and agriculture.
What are railroads?
It characterized the Progressive Era.
What is political, economic, and social reform?
He trained and led the American Expeditionary Force during World War I.
Who is General John J. Pershing?
These two items played a significant role in creating the decade's prosperity.
What are reduced taxes and the assembly line?
These helped to allay hunger during the Great Depression.
What are breadlines and soup kitchens?
Monopolies, ruthless business practices, and unfair business tactics led to its creation.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This organization was founded to ensure equality and end racial discrimination.
What is the N.A.A.C.P.?
The destruction of the U.S.S. Maine and the Cuban Revolution caused it to start.
What is the Spanish American War?
This made Ford the dominant auto manufacturer of the 1920s.
What is the assembly line?
This law deported Mexicans in order to make way for U.S. laborers.
What is the Mexican Repatriation Act?
It was the first law passed to restrict immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This gave women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
Woodrow Wilson believed this would ensure world peace following World War I.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This product changed the American landscape and travel habits of its citizens.
What is the automobile?
One supported direct relief to the unemployed, while the other provided loans to business to overcome the effects of the Great Depression.
Who are Roosevelt and Hoover?
They raised awareness of the political, economic, and social shortcomings of the Era.
What are muckrakers?
This book by Upton Sinclair portrayed labor, safety, and sanitary issues of the meat packing industry.
What is "The Jungle"?
They caused naval expenditures to rise between 1890 and 1905.
What are the Spanish American War and American expansionism?
This led to the rise of the KKK and immigration quotas.
What are nativist attitudes?
It was brought about by drought and poor farming practices.
What is the Dust Bowl?
It was finally completed at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
These men characterized the questionable business practices of the Gilded Age.
Who are the "robber barons"?
These territories were acquired by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish American War.
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
These three things were characteristic of the 1920s.
What are flappers, gangsters, installment plans, Prohibition, prosperity, and stock speculation?
It characterized (three items) the onset of the Great Depression.
What are the decline of worldwide trade, bank failures, and the stock market crash?