Reconstruction/Jim Crow
This amendment ended slavery except as a punishment.
13th Amendment
This march to the US Capitol was attended by over 200,000 people and sought equal job opportunities, housing opportunities, and voting rights.
What is the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom? (Or the March on Washington)
This ideology states that the white man has a God-granted right and to tame and civilize the lands of the West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The sinking of this ship drew the United States into a war with Spain over the independence of Cuba.
What was the USS Maine?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire had this name during WWI.
Who were the Central Powers?
This amendment gave all men the right to vote, regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The 101st Airborne Division was called in to protect this group of students following the integration of an Arkansas school district.
Who were the Little Rock 9?
This act gave 160 acres to anyone who paid the filing fee and worked the land for 5 years.
What was the Homestead Act?
Journalists frequently exaggerated or sensationalized stories in order to sell newspapers using this "type" of journalism. This type of reporting was a major contributing factor in President McKinley being drawn into the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism?
These 3 countries made up the Allied powers in WWI (before the U.S. joined).
Who are France, Great Britain, and Russia?
Reconstruction is the era between between these years.
What are 1865-1877?
This term means segregation by fact, as opposed to de jure segregation, which is segregation by law.
What is de facto segregation?
As native Americans were forced off their land, they were moved to these areas set aside for their tribes.
What are reservations?
The U.S. acquired these four territories as a result of the Spanish-American War.
What are Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
This act provided for the possible induction of all men between the ages of 21 and 35 into the armed forces.
What was the Selective Service Act?
Due to a tight and controversial presidential race, this agreement gave power back to the South and ultimately ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The poll tax, literacy tests, and threats were all ways to deny African Americans the right to do this.
What is vote?
These people were freedmen who sought equality and opportunity on the Western frontier.
Who were exodusters?
The "rebirth" of African American culture, in which African American art flourished as black Americans reclaimed and recreated their identity in our culture came to be known as this.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The United States chose not to join this precursor to the UN after WWI because they feared it would lead them into future foreign entanglements.
What is the League of Nations?
These "codes" were meant to deny freedmen equal rights.
What are the Black Codes?
This group sent armed citizens to police the police.
Who were the Black Panthers?
This act demanded that reservations be divided up into plots for individual families. It ultimately further diminished the amount of land set aside for Native Americans.
What was the Dawes Act?
The right to teach of evolution was the question at stake during this famous 1920's trial that pitted science against religion.
What was the Scopes Trial?
Woodrow Wilson won the presidency using this slogan.
What was "He kept us out of war" or "He has kept us out of war?"