General American History Context

Question 1

What major event were the 1880s the core period of?

Answer 1

the second Industrial Revolution

Question 2

What industrial advances occurred during the 1880s?

Answer 2

Large economic boom,

railroad production,

Question 3

When was the ‘Gilded Age?’

Answer 3

1874-1907

Question 4

When was the Chinese execution act passed in the US?

Answer 4

1882

Question 5

When was legislation of segregation introduced?

Answer 5

1883

Question 6

What did the 1887 Hatch Act encourage?

Answer 6

agricultural experimentation.

Question 7

What were the 1890s marked by?

Answer 7

economic depression

Question 8

What decade were the early models of cars introduced?

Answer 8

1890s

Question 9

What year was ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ published?

Answer 9

1884

Question 10

When did the commercial production of cars begin?

Answer 10

1891

Question 11

When did the New York stock exchange collapse?

Answer 11

1893

Question 12

What was the Panic of 1893?

Answer 12

Great economic depression.

Question 13

When did the Klondike Gold Rush begin?

Answer 13

1897

Question 14

When was President William H. McKinley shot?

Answer 14

1891

Question 15

When was the first Field Tractor invented?

Answer 15

1904

Question 16

What did the Financial crisis of 1907 trigger?

Answer 16

another economic depression.

Question 17

When did America declare war on Germany and Join the first world war?

Answer 17

1917

Question 18

When was the 18th Amendment passed, prohibiting alcohol in the United States?

Answer 18

1917

Question 19

When did prohibition become a Law of the Land?

Answer 19

1919

Question 20

What year were women given the right to vote?

Answer 20

1920

Question 21

When was a quota system established to document the amount of immigrants entering the country?

Answer 21

1921

Question 22

When was the stock market crash?

Answer 22

1929

Question 23

When was the construction of the Empire State Building completed?

Answer 23

1931

Question 24

When was the Dust Storm that plagued the farm lands of the west?

Answer 24

1933

Question 25

When was Gone with the Wind published?

Answer 25

1936

Question 26

When was Mark Twain’s The Gilded Age published?

Answer 26

1873

Question 27

When did the term Gilded Age come into use?

Answer 27

1920s & 30s

Question 28

What was the Gilded Age?

Answer 28

The Reconstruction era: rapid economic growth, rapid industrialisation; immigration led to the development of the west.

Question 29

What struggle did Immigrant’s face during the Gilded Age?

Answer 29

inequality

Question 30

What led the twenties to be referred to as the Jazz Age?

Answer 30

Prohibition of alcohol led music venues to serve illegal alcohol, promoting Jazz Music.

Question 31

What movement allowed women to take their cultural position in the 1920s?

Answer 31

The Flapper Movement.