Amendments
This amendment allowed 18 year olds to vote
26th
Inventor of the light bulb.
Thomas Edison
The event when the US economy failed and unemployment soared...
Great Depression
Steel tycoon who gave 80% of fortune to charity
Andrew Carnigie
The group of soldiers led by Teddy Roosevelt up San Juan hill
Rough Riders
The amendment that can remove a sitting president
25th
The amendment gave voting rights to women.
19th
Oil tycoon
Rockefeller
Outlawed buying and selling booze
Prohibition/18th Amendment
System of awarding jobs to friends and party workers
Spoils System
United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in those countries
Roosevelt Corollary
Young ladies that wore mini skirts and make-up with cropped hair in the 1920s
Flappers
These two amendments stopped and restarted the sale of alcohol.
18th and 21st
Upton Sinclair wrote this book about conditions in the meat packing industry.
The Jungle
Black novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture
Harlem Renaissance
The system of purifying iron for it to be stronger and lighter
Bessemer Process
Exaggerated news stories
Yellow Journalism
The annexation of this state helped the sugar cane indutry
Hawaii
The 17th amendment instituted direct election of...
Senators
Watergate caused the resignation of this president.
Richard Nixon
Makeshift shantytowns for the homeless
Hoovervilles
The two types of integration in business
horizontal and vertical
The treaty that ender WW1
Treaty of Versailles
She created Hull House(settlement housing movement)
Jane Adams
This amendment banned poll taxes.
24th
The event blamed on Herbert Hoover
Great Depression
The fear of communists working to destroy America
Red Scare
The act created civil service exams for employment
Pendleton Civil Service Act
The sinking of this ship started the Spanish-American War
U.S.S. Maine
Immigrants leave their home country to start a new life in the U.S.
Push/Pull factors