Reconstruction
This terrorist organization was born during this time period in opposition to attempts to give freed men and women equality.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
He was the "captain" of the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
He was the President of the United States during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The 1920s were a time when traditional values were challenged by a younger generation. These women, in particular, did so with their bobbed hair, "short" dresses, and heavy make-up.
Who are flappers?
This amendment banned slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
These were fees that many southern states forced voters to pay in order to vote, which discriminated against Black Americans and poor whites.
What are poll taxes?
Ellis Island welcomed millions of these people, who also provided a large source of factory labor and settled in American cities.
The sinking of this British ship by German u-boats caused a lot of anger in America.
What is the Lusitania?
He offered a "new deal" for Americans in 1932.
Who is FDR?
This amendment made it illegal to deny someone the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th amendment?
A massacre and successful insurrection occurred in this city in 1898.
What is Wilmington, NC?
This method helped factories to mass produce goods.
What is the assembly line?
This was the last straw that led the U.S. to declare war on Germany.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
October 29, 1929 was a real downer for this reason.
What is the stock market crash?
This amendment made everyone born in the U.S. a citizen and promised equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
Many southern states required their citizens to pass these assessments in order to be allowed to vote.
What are literacy tests?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This was a speech given by the U.S. president in which he outlined his plans for peace, including a new international organization called the League of Nations.
What is the 14 points?
This is known as the Prohibition amendment, because it banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the United States...for a little while.
What is the 18th amendment?
This government agency was founded to provide assistance to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Many southern states constructed these on public grounds as a message of white supremacy towards their Black citizens.
What are confederate monuments?
These investigative journalists exposed problems in American society.
What are muckrakers?
This house of Congress rejected the Treaty of Versailles because they were opposed to joining the League of Nations.
What is the Senate?
This environmental disaster occurred in the southern Great Plains due to drought and overplowing while the Great Depression was already hurting so many.
What is the Dust Bowl?