Reconstruction
The West
Industrial Revolution
1890s-1920s
1930s-1980s
100
Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War.
What is a Carpetbagger
100
Moving from place to place with no permanent home.
What is nomadic?
100
Cramped quarter on a ship's lower decks for passengers paying the lowest fares.
What is steerage?
100
A buildup of military strength within a country.
What is militarism?
100
The deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.
What is genocide?
200
Name given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Reconstruction.
What are Scalawags?
200
Hispanic ranch hand.
What is Vaquero?
200
The practice of combining separate companies into one.
What is consolidation?
200
A journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society.
What is a muckraker?
200
Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict.
What is appeasement?
300
The granting of pardon to a large number of persons. Forgiveness
What is amnesty?
300
A name given to plains farmer.
What is a Sodbuster?
300
Total control of a type of industry by one person or one company.
What is monopoly?
300
Theodore Roosevelt's promise of fair and equal treatment for all.
What is the Square Deal?
300
The amount of money owed by the government.
What is federal debt?
400
A method used to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring voters to read and write.
What is Literacy Test?
400
Extending across a continent.
What is transcontinental?
400
The production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line.
What is mass production?
400
The right that enables voters to remove elected officials from office.
What is a recall?
400
A policy which attempts to relax or ease tensions between nations.
What is detente?
500
Laws passed in the South after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen.
What are Black Codes?
500
People who take the law into their own hands.
What is a Vigilante?
500
A combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce competition.
What is a trust?
500
A policy that calls for expanding a nation's boundaries.
What is expansionism?
500
The amount by which government spending exceeds revenue.
What is budget deficit?
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