Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
These 3 amendments abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights for African American men.
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
In the late 1800s, many immigrants moved to cities to work in these types of jobs.
Factory jobs / industrial jobs
Progressive reformers pushed for government regulation of businesses to reduce these powerful corporate groups.
Monopolies
This 1929 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
Stock Market Crash
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
Containment
These Southern laws limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
Black Codes
Political machines in cities often exchanged jobs and services for this.
Votes
This constitutional amendment allowed voters to directly elect U.S. senators.
17th Amendment
President Franklin Roosevelt’s programs to combat the Great Depression were known as this.
New Deal
This Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
This controversial election deal of 1877 ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
Compromise of 1877
Jacob Riis exposed poor city living conditions in this book.
How the Other Half Lives
This amendment gave women the right to vote nationwide.
19th Amendment
This event in 1941 brought the United States into World War II.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this famous speech during the March on Washington in 1963.
“I Have a Dream”
This idea argued that the strongest businesses and people would naturally succeed in society.
Social Darwinism
This 1882 law banned most Chinese immigration to the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This 1898 war helped the United States gain influence in places like Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
Spanish-American War
This program sent aid to Allied nations before the U.S. officially entered World War II.
Lend-Lease Act
This scandal forced President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974.
Watergate Scandal
This law tried to limit railroad abuses and was the first federal effort to regulate big business.
Interstate Commerce Act
Settlement houses such as Hull House, founded by Jane Addams, were created to help this group.
Immigrants and the urban poor
This 1904 project, strongly supported by Theodore Roosevelt, connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and boosted U.S. trade and military power.
Panama Canal
This wartime conference created a plan for the United Nations after World War II.
Yalta Conference
This 1989 event symbolized the end of the Cold War in Europe.
Fall of the Berlin Wall