Reconstruction and The West
This law encouraged people to settle in the Great Plains by giving away free land to anyone who would live there and farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This invention, popularized by Henry Ford, made it faster and more affordable to mass produce many products.
What is the assembly line?
This constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote.
This was how the United States acquired Alaska.
What is purchased from Russia?
WWII in Europe began when Germany invaded this country.
What is Poland?
These laws were passed by Southern States in order to target Freedmen for minor infractions that would not be crimes for white people.
What are black codes?
This word means to adapt in order to become part of a new culture.
What is assimilation?
Teddy Roosevelt's plan to make sure everyone would have a fair chance for success.
What is the Square Deal?
This was the US policy at the beginning of WWI.
What is neutrality/isolationism?
President Roosevelt lost some support in Congress because people thought he was trying to take on too much power with this plan.
What is "court packing"/adding judges to the Supreme Court?
The government created this agency to help former slaves adjust to their new lives as free citizens.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Workers came together to improve dangerous working conditions, raise their pay and work more reasonable hours by forming these groups.
What are labor unions?
This amendment tried to end corruption by having people vote directly for their senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This event was the immediate cause of the Spanish-American War.
What is the sinking of the USS Maine?
What is Manchuria?
This supreme court case made "separate but equal" the law of the land when it came to segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This law was the first to limit the immigration of a specific ethnic group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This law reformed the civil service process. People would have to take tests so jobs would go to the most capable people and not just those who are well-connected.
What is the Pendleton Act?
Henry Cabot Lodge and other senators opposed joining this organization because they didn't want the US getting involved in other countries' conflicts.
What is the League of Nations?
President Harding promised a "return to normalcy", or going back to the way things were before WWI. His presidency was hurt by corruption, such as this scandal.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This political party represented the demands of farmers and laborers. They wanted an 8-hour work day, regulation of the railroads and a graduated income tax.
What is the Populist Party?
The Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Hall are examples of wealthy industrialists using their wealth for good causes. This is known as....
Philanthropy
This government agency was set up to regulate the railroads and limit what they could charge.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
Dollar diplomacy was this president's plan to increase US power in Latin America.
Who is Taft?
Trials were held in these cities after WWII to hold German and Japanese leaders accountable for committing terrible atrocities during the war.
What are Nuremberg and Tokyo?