Reconstruction
1865-1877
1865-1877
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A violent white supremacist group that used terror to intimidate Black voters.
What is the KKK?
Organizations formed by workers to improve wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
he policy of extending a nation’s power through diplomacy or military force.
What is imperialism?
What was the name of the secret message that Germany sent to Mexico causing the United States to join WWI?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Tests used to prevent African Americans from voting without explicitly mentioning race.
What are Literacy Tests?
Powerful business combinations that eliminated competition.
What are monopolies?
What is the Spanish American War?
The treaty that officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This amendment prohibited denying voting rights based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The system where formerly enslaved people farmed land they did not own in exchange for a portion of crops.
What is sharecropping?
Journalists who exposed corruption and social injustice.
What are Muckrakers?
Name the territories that the United States acquired after the Spanish American War, and the war that followed as a result of US control.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines and the Philippine American War.
What was Germany's policy of attacking ship without warning, and what was the name of the British Passenger Ship that was hit causing 128 American passengers to die?
What is unrestricted submarine warfare and the Lusitania?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The president who clashed with Radical Republicans during Reconstruction
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Name the two captains of industry that were known for oil and steel monopolies.
Who are JD Rockefeller (oil) and Andrew Carnegie (steel)?
What ship exploded in the Havana Harbor causing America to wage war against Spain?
What was the USS Maine?
Name the communist revolution in Russia and the widespread fear of radical ideas spreading in the United States.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution and the First Red Scare.
Congressional laws that divided the South into military districts.
What are the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
This Supreme Court case upheld the idea of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What are the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Amendments?
16th - Federal Income Tax
17th - direct election of senators
18th - prohibition (no alcohol)
19th - women vote
Name the areas in China being controlled by other world powers, and the policy proposed by the United States for open trade.
What are the Spheres of Influence and Open Door Policy?
What is 1914 (start), 1918 (end) and 1917 (USA joins)