Reconstruction and the Civil War
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These powerful businessmen of the late 1800s were sometimes praised as captains of industry and other times criticized as this.
What are Robber Barons?
Sensationalist reporting by newspapers like Hearst and Pulitzer that pushed the U.S. toward war with Spain.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This 1920 amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This surprise attack by Japan in 1941 led the U.S. to enter World War II.
What was Pearl Harbor?
These laws were passed in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans.
What were the Black Codes?
This term describes an anti-immigrant sentiment that grew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is Nativism?
This policy, announced by Secretary of State John Hay, aimed to ensure equal trade rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
These young women of the 1920s defied traditional gender norms through fashion and behavior.
Who were Flappers?
This Cold War strategy involved pushing dangerous confrontations to the edge of war to protect U.S. interests.
What is Brinkmanship?
This federal agency was established in 1865 to aid freed slaves by providing food, education, and legal support.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
These laws legalized segregation in the South and were upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This 1898 war led to the U.S. gaining control of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This event in 1925 highlighted the national debate between science and religion.
What was the Scopes Trial?
This plan provided U.S. aid to rebuild European nations after World War II to prevent the spread of communism.
What was the Marshall Plan?
This group in the South supported Reconstruction and were often seen as traitors by other Southerners.
Who were the Scalawags?
He believed African Americans should gain equality through vocational education, while his rival believed in immediate civil rights and higher education.
Who are Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?
This intercepted message helped push the U.S. into WWI by revealing Germany’s offer to Mexico to regain lost territory.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This court case reflected growing nativist sentiment and fears of immigrants and anarchists.
What was the Sacco and Vanzetti case?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ended legal segregation in public schools and marked a key Civil Rights victory.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
Name and explain the key differences between Lincoln’s, Johnson’s, and Congress’s (Radical Republicans’) Reconstruction plans.
What are Lincoln’s lenient 10% Plan, Johnson’s similar but more forgiving plan for ex-Confederates, and the Radical Republicans’ harsher plan requiring states to ratify the 14th Amendment and guarantee rights to freedmen?
This late-19th-century political movement pushed for reforms to help farmers and workers, but fell short in many national elections.
What was the Populist movement?
After WWI, President Wilson proposed this peace plan based on diplomacy, free trade, and the League of Nations.
What are the Fourteen Points?
Compare Hoover’s and FDR’s approaches to dealing with the Great Depression, including government involvement and relief efforts.
Hoover favored limited government aid and voluntary cooperation; Roosevelt supported direct government intervention and launched the New Deal to create jobs and economic relief?
Analyze the strategic rationale behind the U.S. decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and explain the global and ethical implications that followed.
The U.S. used atomic bombs to force a quick Japanese surrender and avoid a costly invasion, but the decision sparked global debate over ethics, civilian casualties, and the dawn of the nuclear age, influencing Cold War tensions and international policy on nuclear weapons?