Reconstruction
Who established the Ku Klux Klan?
Nathan Forrest
What began formally with schools but expanded in 1881 to transportation
Segregation
America attempted to access equal trade with China through a what?
Open-Door Policy
Wilson began secretly preparing for war through what?
Mobilization
What officially ended the war and harshly punished Germany
The Treaty of Versailles, 1919.
What were restrictions on freemen to keep them submissive to whites?
Black Codes
Proof of residency, paying a poll tax, & taking a literacy test (exemptions given by the Grandfather Clause); are examples of what?
1890 Mississippi Plan
American economic & military interests relied on quicker access to the Pacific Ocean – led to the
Panama Canal
Austria-Hungary began taking over the Balkan States as the Ottoman Empire collapsed – This led to the assassination of who
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What was the final reason behind America’s war declaration in 1917
Zimmermann Telegram.
Supported protection of Black voting rights by sending more troops to the South to reinforce the 15th Amendment
The Enforcement Act, 1870
Term meaning: Sharing land for farming then paying the landowner rent with a portion of crops.
Sharecropping
What began the Spanish-American War?
America entered the war on Cuba’s side
What was the name of the governing body that outlined diplomatic talks during WWI?
The League of Nations.
Established an 8-hour workday & equal pay regardless of gender & race.
The National War Labor Board (NWLB)
This allowed anti-Black legislation to begin again slowly
Restoration of Home Rule
Began for African Americans during the late 1860s through private funds, or community support, & was successful, but underfunded
Education
What recognized Japan’s control over Manchuria for free trade between both nations?
Root-Tanaka Agreement
The U.S. ended all support when Germany resumed what?
Unrestricted submarine warfare
A peace proposal that pushed democracy, equalized all nations, & outlined diplomatic talks between countries through a governing body called the League of Nations.
Wilsons Fourteen Points
Allowed victims of political intimidation to sue in federal court
The Ku Klux Klan Act, 1871 (Klan Act)
Booker Washington founded the what
Tuskegee Institute
What term means: Whites needed to civilize & educate non-whites because they were ignorant
White Man's Burden
What made it illegal to speak out against the president, government, or United States.
Sedition Act, 1918
What was it called when African Americans urbanized rapidly from 1917 – 1920 to escape poverty & sharecropping in the South
The Great Migration