Gilded Age
These people would work to protest to get better working conditons ( NO KIDS UNDER 15), higher wages and fewer work hours.
What are labor unions?
This is little to no legitimate, Well-research news that we now today call "clickbait ".
What is yellow journalism?
This is what we would say that people have when they return home with post-traumatic stress disorder. The symptoms of this would be : Staring eyes , violent tremors, Cold extremities , unexplained deafness, blindness, or paralysis.
What is Shell Shock?
In the 1920s women would cut their hair shorter, wear shorter skirts, smoke and drink alcohol, and reject the constrictions of the Victorian era.
What is a flapper?
No Reasonable Search & Seizure.
What is the fourth amendment?
People would move to bigger cities hoping that there would be better opportunities for jobs which would later lead to the following: Overcrowded cities, Unsanitary living conditions, increase in health issues, and Ethnic communities (Little Italy, and Chinatown).
What is Urbanization?
These were people who worked to find ways to go to industries corrupt and abused in politics and society.
what is Muckrakers?
This man was the captain of the U.S. Navy
Has a book called: The Influence of Sea Power Upon History?
Led the expansion of the modern Navy
Who is Alfred T. Mahan?
These people do not like the idea of: achole, flappers and other " modern " women, and The Teaching of Evolution.
What is a fundamentalist?
This would lead to the effect of millions of acres not able to be used and the influx of prices on food. Hundreds to thousands of people would leave their homes to find better living opportunities.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Haymarket Affair of 1886 - this would protest for 8-hour work days
Homestead strike of 1892- wages would decrease due to an influx of workers
Pullman Strike of 1894- wages had dropped while rent increased
What are the Great Strikes?
This is the economic system of having minimal government interference and regulations. The benefit of this was that it barriers to the creation of a business and less government would reduce the business cost. The cost of this was that the lack of regulations led to corruption and unethical practices that could lead to harm to the public good, workers, and the consumer.
What is the Laissez-Faire?
This battle was the turning point of WWI. This battle also succeeded in capturing and breaking important German railroad stations.
What is the Battle of Argonne Forest?
People would start to see that a lot more African Americans would start to move to the cities of Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and New York City. African Americans would move to get away from racism, sharecropping, and tena farming in the South t find better opportunities.
What is the Great Migration?
This limited foreign trade between Europe
It became a barrier to European countries to try to repay the WWI debts to the U.S. Stock Market speculations: Buying stocks on margin.
What were the causes of the Great Depression?
This occurred in the city of Manhattan, New York on March 25, 1911. this caused the deaths of 146 garment workers - 123 women and girls and only 23 men. These people died due to smoke inhalation or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were Italian or Jewish immigrant women and girls that ranged from the ages of 14 to 23 years old.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This man was against the idea that African Americans had to " earn " equality. He also believed that education should be equal for everyone and the primary goal for all African Americans.
Who is W.EB. Du Bois?
This president came up with this policy called the open door policy (1899). This policy was about allowing all actions to have equal opportunity to trade with China. In the year of 1901, This president was assassinated by an anarchist named Leon Czolgos. His vice president was Theodore Roosevelt.
Who is president Mckinley?
Two Italian men were accused of robbing a shoe store and murdering two people. This would lead to both Men being executed on August 23, 1923.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
This marked a significant change in how the federal government plays in the lives of U.S. citizens. This also established the role of government involvement in stabilizing the economy at state and the federal level.
What is the impact of the New Deal?
The invention of the light bulb would make the shift grow longer. Due to the fact that shifts were growing longer workers would start to work night shifts including children. Women, children, immigrants, and African-American workers would get paid less than white American workers would. People would work 12-hour shifts six days a week with no vacations or sick leave and also with no unemployment benefits.
What is Poor Labor Conditions?
During the time of Theodore Roosevelt president Came up with a domestic program. This program would reflect the three major goals of the three C's: The CONSERVATION of natural resources , The CONTROL of corporations, The CONSUMER protection
What is the Roosevelt Square Deal?
These would make sure that peace would last:
Reduction of armaments, Freedom of the seas, End of secret alliances, Removal of the trade barriers, Self-Determination for Nation-states, and Creation of the League of Nations.
What are Wilson's Fourteen Points?
This was a period when the cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarships. These were some of the people who were very famous at the time : Langston Huge - a famous poet, Louis Armstrong - a famous musician.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This day was the day of a big change. Billions of dollars were lost, and people were trying to get their savings back. This was known to be the worst time for the banks to run out of money. This day dates back all the way to October 29, 1929.
What is black Tuesday?