Reconstruction Era
This amendment said states could not deny voting rights based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Workers formed these organizations to fight for better pay and safer conditions.
What are unions?
When a powerful country extends control over weaker territories, it is practicing this.
What is imperialism or colonialism?
“M.A.I.N.” stands for these four major causes of WWI.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
Many Americans in the 1920s bought these new devices to listen to music, sports, and news at home.
What are radios?
These groups used violence and intimidation against African Americans after the Civil War.
What are groups like the KKK?
Business leaders who became extremely wealthy and powerful during the Gilded Age were sometimes called these.
Who are robber barons?
Industrial countries wanted colonies partly because factories needed these two things. (I will accept 1 of them.)
What are raw materials or markets?
The assassination of this Austrian archduke helped spark World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The 1920s economy grew partly because Americans bought many new household products using this method of payment.
What is credit/installment buying?
The South was divided into these after the Civil War so the Union could maintain control.
What are military districts?
When one company dominates an industry and crushes competition, it is called this.
What is a monopoly/trust?
This battleship exploded in Havana Harbor, increasing support for war with Spain.
What is the Maine?
Soldiers in WWI often fought from these long defensive ditches.
What are trenches?
This amendment banned alcohol in the United States during the 1920s.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Many Southern states used these laws and practices to keep Black citizens from voting after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws/literacy tests/poll taxes?
This idea argued that the government should stay out of business as much as possible during the Gilded Age.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
This territory became controlled by the United States after the Spanish-American War. The U.S. still controls it today.
What is Puerto Rico? (Or Guam)
Germany’s message encouraging Mexico to attack the U.S. was called this.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This cultural movement centered in New York celebrated African American music, literature, and art during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This group in Congress passed the Reconstuction Amendments.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This famous strike ended violently and weakened organized labor in the steel industry.
What is the Homestead Strike?
Newspapers that exaggerated stories to gain readers used this style of reporting.
What is yellow journalism?
This treaty blamed Germany for the war and forced it to pay reparations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This Amendment, ratified in 1920, ensured women the right to vote nationwide.
What is the 19th Amendment?