Amendments
People
1920s
Industrialism
Imperialism/WW1
Grab Bag
100

This amendment allowed 18 year olds to vote

26th

100

Inventor of the light bulb.

Thomas Edison

100

The event when the US economy failed and unemployment soared...

Great Depression

100

Steel tycoon who gave 80% of fortune to charity

Andrew Carnigie

100

The group of soldiers led by Teddy Roosevelt up San Juan hill

Rough Riders

100

The amendment that can remove a sitting president

25th

200

The amendment gave voting rights to women.

19th 

200

Oil tycoon

 Rockefeller

200

Outlawed buying and selling booze

Prohibition/18th Amendment

200

System of awarding jobs to friends and party workers

Spoils System

200

United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in those countries

Roosevelt Corollary

200

Young ladies that wore mini skirts and make-up with cropped hair in the 1920s

Flappers

300

These two amendments stopped and restarted the sale of alcohol.

18th and 21st

300

Upton Sinclair wrote this book about conditions in the meat packing industry.

The Jungle

300

Black novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture

Harlem Renaissance 

300

The system of purifying iron for it to be stronger and lighter

Bessemer Process

300

Exaggerated news stories

Yellow Journalism

300

The annexation of this state helped the sugar cane indutry

Hawaii

400

The 17th amendment instituted direct election of... 

Senators

400

Watergate caused the resignation of this president.

Richard Nixon

400

Makeshift shantytowns for the homeless

Hoovervilles

400

The two types of integration in business

horizontal and vertical

400

The treaty that ender WW1

Treaty of Versailles

400

She created Hull House(settlement housing movement)

Jane Adams

500

This amendment banned poll taxes.

24th 

500

The event blamed on Herbert Hoover

Great Depression

500

The fear of communists working to destroy America

Red Scare

500

The act created civil service exams for employment

Pendleton Civil Service Act

500

The sinking of this ship started the Spanish-American War

U.S.S. Maine

500

Immigrants leave their home country to start a new life in the U.S.

Push/Pull factors