Reconstruction
These laws were instated to keep a subservient labor force.
Black Codes
What act was used to repress Chinese immigration and workers?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Which president was known for speaking softly and carrying a big stick?
Theodore Roosevelt
Which Amendment freed the slaves?
The 13th amendment
Journalism used to push agendas on the public with inflated facts.
What is yellow journalism
This was created to help provide health and educational services for African Americans in the South.
The Freedmen's Bureau
Describe the significance of barbed wire.
Protected farmers land and crops from free range cattle practices.
Which president came up with the new deal?
FDR
14th Amendment was significant for what reason?
Citizenship and equality
What was the name of the ship destroyed off the Cuban shore?
The Maine
This group was formed in response to the recent freed slaves. Their goal was to instill fear, and return the south to their former glory.
The KKK
What does this describe, " There is not a poor person in this country who was not made poor by their own short comings."?
Social Darwinism
Who gave labor the "fair shake", or fair deal?
Harry S. Turman
Which amendment gave the right to vote?
The 15th
What does a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force called?
Imperialism
What is the name of African Americans that rented land and grew a percentage of cash crops?
Sharecropping
What do W.E.B DuBois and Ida B. Wells have in common?
Civil Rights activists
Which president sent in troops to protect the integrated high schools?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What did the 18th amendment do?
The prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal.
List the countries that the United States took over as territories.
Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Cuba
What was the Compromise of 1877?
It ended reconstruction.
Where did immigrants go when they first arrived in the U.S.?
Ellis Island
Who was the Governor General of the Philippines?
Howard Taft
What amendment made women the ability to vote?
The 19th
Before finding oil and gold what was the purchase of Alaska called?
Seward's Folly