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This amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This system of "letting the people decide" by a vote was used to decide the issue of slavery in new territories in the Compromise of 1850.
What is popular sovereignty?
A derogatory term used for a person from the North who moved to the South during reconstruction.
What is a carpetbagger?
These laws established racial segregation in the South and they circumvented the Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
These were the two combatants of the American Civil War.
Who were the North and the South?
Who were the Union and the Confederacy?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This inventor obtained several patents for lubricators for steam engines.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
This inventor patented a series of inventions for trains and street cars, including a multiplex telegraph that could send signals between stations and moving trains.
Who is Granville T. Woods?
At this event, nations agreed to the world's first partial disarmament and the 5:5:3 rule for battleships.
What is the Washington Naval Conference?
This man was a progressive politician who gave a very famous speech denouncing the banking system as evil and corrupt. He also exalted farmers as good citizens.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This government corporation provides insurance to deposits placed in banks.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
The government's hands off approach to economics (business).
What is laisssez-faire?
This organization gave outdoor jobs to young men.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
These establishments provided education, childcare, medical care, and help with obtaining citizenship to immigrants.
What are settlement houses?
Archibald Motley (artist), Zora Neale Hurston (writer), and Langston Hughes (poet) are some of the best known artists from this African American cultural revitalization of the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Americans gained the benefits of unemployment insurance, monies paid to the disabled, and retirement benefits from this Act in 1935.
What is the Social Security Act?
The assassination of this Archduke of Austria while visiting Sarajevo was the triggering event of World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park," this famous scientist is most well known for inventing the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison
Consumers paid higher prices for lower quality products due to these types of businesses.
What are monopolies?
In this form of tenant farming the land owner provides a tenant not only with land but also with the money needed to purchase equipment and supplies and possibly also food, clothing, and supervision. - Led to a form of debt slavery after the war.
What is sharecropping?
This style of newspaper reporting emphasized sensationalism over facts and contributed to America entering the Spanish-American War.
What is Yellow Journalism?
National self-determination, the reunification of Poland, freedom of the seas, equal trade terms, reduced armaments, an end to secret alliances, and the creation of an international peace-keeping organization were all goals of this proposal to end World War I.
What is Wilson's 14 points?
Manifest Destiny, new technology, the need for raw materials, and competition with European powers were all reasons given in favor of this.
What is American Imperialism?
These organizations were controlled by a "boss" and they got citizens to vote for their candidates by offering help to immigrants and the poor, and through shady business deals.
What are political machines?
This infamous letter from the Spanish Ambassador to the United States to the Foreign Minister of Spain criticized President McKinley as being weak. Its interception and publication helped draw America into the Spanish American War.
What is the de Lome Letter?