Amendments
Progressive Era
Civil War
Reconstruction
Urbanization
100
This amendment gives Congress the power to pass an income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
100
They helped expose corruption.
What are muckrakers?
100
The north was also known as this.
What is the Union?
100
These were men and women who had once been slaves.
What are freedmen?
100
This was a variety show that was created to entertain poor and middle class immigrants.
What is Vaudeville?
200
This amendment allowed for the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
200
To regulate banking, Congress passed this in 1913.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
200
When the war was over, soldiers returned North and were in search of these.
What is a job?
200
Reconstruction ended because people from this geographical area of the country lost interest in it.
What are northerners?
200
This Act was the first law that prevented a national group of people from entering the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
This amendment granted citizenship to individuals born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
This was the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs and was the blame for most problems in politics.
What is the spoils system?
300
This was the first major battle of the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?
300
This President was impeached by Congress because they feared he would refuse to enforce Reconstruction laws.
What is President Johnson?
300
This law required children to attend school from Kindergarten through 6th grade.
What is compulsory education?
400
This amendment stated that no state could deny a citizen the right to vote based on his race or color.
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
Reformers of the Gilded Age criticized the spoils system because they felt it increased this.
What is corruption?
400
Theodore Roosevelt was known as this because people felt he was breaking up all trusts.
What is a trustbuster?
400
This is the term that refers to the period in which the South was rebuilt.
What is Reconstruction?
400
Newspapers attracted these readers by hiring these people as reporters and editors.
What are women?
500
This Amendment banned slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
This was known as Roosevelt's plan to help everyone from farmers and consumers to workers and owners to have the same opportunity to succeed.
What is the Square Deal?
500
This was the location where General Lee surrendered to General Grant on April 9, 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
This was a type of journalism in which stories were often biased and untrue. Stories were also exaggerated.
What is yellow journalism?
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