5. Life at the Turn of the Century (PUT NOTES AWAY!)
100
This Amendment ended involuntary servitude in the United States.
What is the 13th Am?
100
This amendment is the only constitutional amendment to ever be repealed
What is the 18th amendment?
100
The NAACP was formed in 1909 at this convention in Canada.
What is the Niagara Conference?
100
This amendment to the Constitution repealed the prohibition of alcohol
What is the 21st amendment?
100
Between 1880 and 1900, how many new colleges and universities were established?
150
200
This Amendment granted citizenship to all men and provided equal protection of the law
What is the 14th Am?
200
Native Americans were forced to give up their culture, language, and dress in order to attend American public schools. This process is known as ...
What is assimilation or Americanization?
200
The US Supreme Court upheld the decision that public facilities can be "separate but equal" in this infamous court case
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
200
This is investigative journalism, searching to expose corruption or scandal in politics and/or business
What is muckraking?
200
Americans began to flock to new forms of entertainment because they had more ______ and ______.
time and money
300
This African American political activist thought blacks in America should strive for vocational education as their way to achieve equality.
Who is Booker T Washington?
300
This Constitutional Amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
These laws kept African Americans subservient in society in the South after the Civil War
What are Jim Crow laws?
300
This is the author of the book "The Jungle" which exposed the meatpacking industries in Chicago.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
Homer Plessy violated this statute in the state of Louisiana and was duly arrested.
What is the Separate Car Act?
400
Immediately after Reconstruction, these "laws" limited the rights of African Americans in the South. Hint - they were the precursor to Jim Crow laws.
What are the Black Codes?
400
This Amendment granted all men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Am?
400
!DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
In 1911 this building in Lower Manhattan caught on fire and trapped 145 women inside, killing all of them. Afterward, this incident led to a huge push in workers compensation laws.
400
This act established the Food & Drug Administration
What is the Pure Food & Drug Act?
400
This term means to take away the right to vote
What is disfranchisement?
500
African Americans were deprived the right to vote in all of these ways: (4 possible answers, provide 3 for full credit.)
Literacy tests, grandfather clause, proof of property, poll tax
500
After Reconstruction, 1.5 million African Americans left the South to seek freedom and equality in the North. This is known as ________?
the Great Migration
500
These two laws were passed in 1906 immediately after "The Jungle" was published.
What is the meat Inspection Act of 1906 & the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906?
500
What social and political rights did women pursue during the Progressive Era? (4 possible answers, name two)
The right to vote (suffrage), the right to own property, the right to divorce, allowed to dress freely.
500
!DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
How many states are required to pass a Constitutional Amendment? Give me the number of states or reduce it to a fraction