reconstruction
The amendment that made slavery illegal in America
What is the 13th amendment?
The period of innovation, progress, and economic growth in America after Reconstruction
The outlawing of the creation, distribution, or consumption of alcohol
What is prohibition?
The year WWI started
What is 1914?
The country negatively affected by the Treaty of Versailles
What is Germany?
The amendment that states all people born in America are citizens
What is the 14th amendment?
The hands-off economic policy that said the US government could not interfere in business
What is Laissez Faire Economics?
The largest and most important labor union that fought for better working conditions and 8 hour workdays
What are the Knights of Labor?
What is machine guns, tanks, poison gas, airplanes, artillery/grenades, scopes/rifles?
The foreign policy America adapted after WWI to avoid being involved in European conflicts
What is isolationism?
The amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
The saying inspired by the thought that anybody can become rich with hard work
What is 'rags to riches'?
A tactic used by workers when they refused to work or used to force owners to accept their demands
What are labor strikes?
The cause of America's entrance into WWI
What is the sinking of the Lusitania or Zimmerman Telegram?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
Northern Republics who moved to the south to profit from Reconstruction
What are carpetbaggers?
A company or corporation that has control over an industry (sets prices and eliminates competition)
What is a monopoly?
A movement by the middle class with 5 goals that wanted the government to solve economic and social problems
What is progressivism?
The two groups fighting WWI
Southerners who supported the Republican party
Who are scalawags?
Laws that enforced public segregation (bathrooms, water fountains, movie theaters, parks, etc.)
What are the Jim Crow laws?
A period in America where people began to find appreciation in the arts, music, and culture
What were the Roaring 20s'?
Another name for journalists who use investigative reports to uncover the problems with society
What are muckrakers?
The main method of warfare and battling during WWI
What is trench warfare?
The meaning of the letter I in MANIA
What is imperialism?