1800s Society and Culture
Reformers who wanted to end slavery completely in the United States were called?
Abolitionists
This man was the President during the Civil War (and can be found on the penny and $5 bill)
Abraham Lincoln
What practice did the 13th Amendment outlaw throughout the nation after the Civil War
Slavery
The Central Powers of WWI included Austria-Hungary and what other European country?
Germany
Jazz
Harriet Tubman was a "conductor" in this secret network of abolitionists and helped slaves escape to free land
The Underground Railroad
This man was the leader of the Confederate States of America (the group of states that left the Union)
Jefferson Davis
Segregation
Along with nationalism and imperialism, this third "ism", which was a policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war, was another source of prewar tension
Militarism
These young women in the Roaring 20's always pursued the latest fad
Flappers
This was the most profitable "cash crop" in the South
Cotton
What was the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
It "freed" people enslaved in Confederate-held territory
In response to the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment, some white southerners formed this white hooded secret society to help them regain power.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
The policy of powerful countries seeking to control the economic and political affairs of weaker countries or regions?
Imperialism
Bootleggers (or Rum-Runners)
Urbanization
"Four score and seven years ago..." is the beginning to what famous speech made by Abraham Lincoln?
The Gettysburg Address
What were the effects of poll taxes and literacy tests, two requirements imposed on Southern voters?
it made it more difficult for freedmen to vote as they could rarely afford the poll tax or pass the literacy test
At the conclusion of WWI, Woodrow Wilson wrote in his Fourteen Points about a "general association of nations". What is the name of this association?
League of Nations
What happened on Tuesday, October 29th, 1929 (also known as Black Tuesday), and what 12 year economic event did it cause?
The Stock Market crashed and led to the Great Depression
This brand new innovation made mass production more efficient by making machine parts identical
Interchangeable parts
Using popular sovereignty, this act allowed the settlers of two new territories (whose names are part of the act) to decide whether they would be a slave state or not
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal so long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
The assassination of this Austrio-Hungarian man leads to the beginning of WWI
Archduke Franz (Francis) Ferdinand
What was a "Hooverville"?
Clusters of shacks where the homeless lived during the Great Depression. The nickname was used to mock President Hoover's failed policies of the Great Depression