Jim Crowe
These tests were instituted in the South to prevent freed slaves from voting.
Term for when a country conquers other countries and controls them politically and economically.
What is Imperialism/Empire?
Political Party that was in control of Reconstruction.
What is the Republican Party?
Term for someone who wants to make society better using government power.
Who are Progressives?
Term for making the manufacturing and consuming alcohol illegal.
What is Prohibition?
A fee that you must pay in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
The Spanish-American War was fought over a rebellion on this island.
What is Cuba?
This Constitutional Amendment made slavery illegal.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Term for an organization of workers who fought for better pay and working conditions.
What is a Labor Union?
Constitutional Amendment that created the Income Tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Court case that made segregation legal.
The US led a revolt in this country so they could build a canal.
What is Panama?
This Constitutional Amendment prohibits leaders of the Confederacy from holding political offices.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Situation where one company controls an entire market. No competition.
What is a monopoly?
Term for a woman who fought for the right to vote.
What is a suffragette?
If your ancestors could vote, you can vote also.
What is a Grandfather Clause?
The sinking of this ship led to the US declaring war on Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
The 15th Amendment gave this group of people the right to vote.
Who are all men/black men/anyone born in the US?
What is a Socialist/Communist?
This Constitutional Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Term for an extrajudicial hanging. Targeted blacks in the Jim Crowe South.
What is lynching?
The US took over these islands in the Pacific from Spain during the Spanish-American War.
What are the Philippines?
This Amendment made all freed slaves citizens of the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Term for trying to create a better human being by eliminating bad genes from the gene pool:.
What is Eugenics?
This Constitutional Amendment made it so Senators were directly elected by the people.
What is the 17th Amendment?