Reconstruction
He was the first african American man elected to the senate
Who was Hiram Revels?
When a company buys out all it's competition
what is horizontal integration?
State laws which prevented African American males from voting predicated on determining their reading skills
what are literacy tests?
If you believed people like Thomas Edison were bad for society, you would refer to him as this
What is a Robber Baron?
The TVA is a classic example of the "New Deal" and can be identified with the construction of these
What are dams?
an American married couple executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage, specifically for passing secrets about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union
Who were The Rosenbergs?
The term for the 3 amendments enacted immediately after the civil war
What are the reconstruction amendments?
John D. Rockefellers trust at one point controlled 90% of this resource within the nation
what is oil?
The explosion aboard this ship marked the begining of American Imperialism
What is The U.S.S. Maine?
This expose by Upton Sinclair led to significant changes in food and drug safety in America
What is "The Jungle"?
The Clayton Anti-Trust act barred Judges from ending this action often taken by labor unions as a last resort for negotiation
What is Strike?
represents the total expenses needed to cover basic necessities like housing, food, transportation, and healthcare in a specific location and time. It's often used to compare the affordability of different cities or regions
What is Cost of Living?
a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
What is Share Cropping?
When a company owns all the phases of production from extraction through distribution
What is Vertical Allignment?
Segregation was less about purely separating races and more about this
What is leverage OR making sure one race was seen as better than another
DAILY DOUBLE!
Set limits on which people can immigrate to the United States
makeshift settlements built by homeless people during the Great Depression, named after a President that was in office when the Depression began and was blamed for it
What are Hoovervilles?
a metaphorical and, later, literal barrier that divided Europe after World War II, separating communist Eastern Europe from the democratic West. The term was popularized by Winston Churchill in his 1946 speech, and it came to symbolize the ideological and political divide between the two blocs
What is the Iron Curtain?
A domestic terrorist organization known for wearing white hoods, burning crosses, and violently oppressing minority groups via mob violence
Who are the KKK
EST, CST, MST, and PST are all terms that come from what industry
what are railroads?
the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others--often predicated on identity
what is segregation?
They represented reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era
Who were Muckrakers?
"A date that will live in infamy"
12/7/1941
a massive federal public works project that revolutionized transportation in the United States. The act funded the construction of a 41,000-mile network of roads, primarily driven by the Cold War's need for a fast evacuation route and a desire for efficient transportation and economic development.
What is the Interstate Highway system?
An unfulfilled promise of reparations made by Sherman's special field order 15
What is 40 acres and a mule?
this law--also known as the general allotment act--authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals
What is the Dawes Act?
This event marks the end of reconstruction and the begining of Jim Crow South
What was the Compromise of 1877
The fire in this location led to significant changes in workplace safety laws in America
Where is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
The Glass-Stegal Act established that these two sectors banking must remain seperate
What are invsestings and savings?
What were Levittowns?
This economic crisis was one contributing factor to the end of reconstruction
What was the Panic of 1873?
DAILY DOUBLE
While peacefully surrendering, hundreds of indian men, women, and children were slaughtered in an event remember by this name
These laws existed in primarily southern states and were utilized to codify race into a legal system
what are one drop policies?
An event that Carrie Chapman Catt described as "Inevitable"
What is women's suffrage?
These three dictators are representative of the global rise of fascism before and during WWII
Who are, Musilini, Hitler, and Tojo?
state of intense ideological, political, and economic hostility between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, defining the post-WWII era without direct, large-scale military fighting between the two superpowers. It was characterized by proxy wars, a nuclear arms race, the space race, and global maneuvering for influence
What is the Cold War?