Industrialization
This process provided a new, more efficient way to produce steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This amendment, passed after WWI, granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
Stronger nations attempting to dominate weaker nations for resources or power
What is Imperialism?
These four "MAIN" factors are considered the underlying causes of the war.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
This 1920s cultural movement in New York City celebrated Black American art, literature, and music.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The name for rich businessmen who paid low wages, provided bad working conditions, and drained natural resources.
Who are Robber Barons?
These laws were passed to ensure that food and medicines were safe for public consumption.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
A major cause of the Spanish-American War was the sinking of this ship.
What was the USS Maine?
This law made it illegal for Americans to say anything negative about the government during the war.
What is the Sedition Act?
This environmental disaster in the Great Plains was caused by a combination of severe drought and poor farming practices.
What was the Dust Bowl?
These crowded, often polluted apartments were where most urban immigrants lived
What are tenements?
This organization was created by Black Americans to fight discrimination, since Progressives were not helping them.
What is the NAACP?
An effect of the SPAM War, was the US taking ownership of these territories.
What was Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba?
This group told companies what to make and how to make products necessary for us to win the war.
What is the War Industries Board?
He revolutionized the 1920s economy by making the assembly line more efficient so he could produce a car every American could afford.
Who was Henry Ford?
This strike occurred when rail workers protested wage cuts, eventually disrupting the mail
What was the Pullman Strike?
He believed Black American equality should be achieved through legal change.
Who is W.E.B DuBois?
This agreement between world powers allowed the U.S. and others to share trading access to China.
What was the Open Door Policy?
This treaty ended World War I. Made Germany take all of the blame and charged them $33 billion in reparations.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
This labor union only represented skilled laborers/men.
What was the American Federation of Labor?
This consolidation tactic involves buying all the goods and services needed to make and ship a product.
BONUS: Who did this in history?
What is Vertical Consolidation?
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This 1911 court case officially ruled that John D. Rockefeller’s company was a monopoly.
What was the Standard Oil Court Case?
This policy stated the U.S. would act as a "International Police Power" in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Group of countries whose job it was to maintain peace after WWI. US never joins out of fear of entangling alliances.
What was the League of Nations?
While the New Deal successfully created millions of jobs through public works programs, it was often criticized for providing only minimal opportunities for these two specific groups of people.
Who are Women and African Americans?