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A period in U.S. history right after the Civil War where the South was let back into the United States and laws were passed to protect the rights of newly freed African Americans.
What was Reconstruction?
A time when the manufacturing of goods moved from small shops and homes to large factories.
A waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans cutting through a narrow strip of land in
the Central American country of Panama.
What is the Panama Canal?
Warfare tactic digging trenches to avoid fire from the enemy.
What is trench warfare?
Where stocks, or shares of companies and corporations, are bought and sold.
What is the Stock Market?
Laws designed by southern states to limit the freedoms and rights of African-Americans to allow whites to maintain control of society and governments.
Jim Crow Laws
A group of workers who come together to protect their working rights and working pay.
What is a labor union?
An agreement with European nations to provide equal economic opportunity in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This amendment guaranteed women the right to vote in 1920 after a long fight by the suffragettes.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Only paying a portion of a stock while borrowing the rest from a bank or broker. (Mr Dowd's favorite hobby)
What is buying on margin?
President during the Civil War and fought for laws and amendments to free the slaves.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Section of railroad that connected the eastern and western United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A type of reporting that exaggerates or sensationalizes stories to sell more newspapers.
What is Yellow Journalism?
1000 POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This acronym is used to describe the reasons WWI started (give the word that each letter represents).
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
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A group of government programs enacted during the Great Depression under President Roosevelt to help the country’s economy recover.
What is the New Deal?
The 13th Amendment did this.
What is: Formally abolished slavery in the United States.
A neighborhood or area of town or city that is mostly inhabited by people of a specific ethnicity.
e.g. Chinatown, Little Italy
What is an ethnic neighborhood?
A law distributing Native American reservation lands to Native Americans to become landowners in order to become farmers and blend into white American society.
What is the Dawes Act?
Ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.
What is propaganda?
A place where people could get a free or cheap meal during the depression.
What is a soup kitchen?
Granted citizenship and legal rights to African Americans, said no states could deny rights providing equal protection to all.
What is the 14th amendment?
A factory fire in New York City that killed 146 people. The tragic event lead to a wave of laws and
regulations to improve work place safety.W
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
A policy or practice by which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world
What is Imperialism?
A law banning citizens from passing information that would hinder the nation’s military or could help an enemy. (Think spies.)
The 31st president of the United States best known for doing very little to help the country recover from the Great Depression following the policies of Laissez-Faire.
Who is Herbert Hoover?