Reconstruction
African Americans in the 1920s faced discrimination, especially in what area?
Southern Jim Crow Regions
African American journalist advocating against lynching.
Ida B. Wells
The U.S. had become what in the beginning of the 20th century?
A superpower
This country was forced to admit full guilt for the start of WWI
Germany
How did prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?
Emergence of Bootleggers, Mafia, and Speakeasies
This treaty officially ended reconstruction era
Compromise of 1877
Fire in New York factory that trapped young women workers inside locked exit doors; nearly 50 ended up jumping to their death; while 100 died inside the factory;
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Proposed by the US who wanted to keep trade open in 1899, under which ALL nations (Britain, France, German, Japan) would have equal opportunities to trade in China.
Open Door Policy
Triple Alliance during WWI
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression.
Black Tuesday
A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.
Share-cropper
U.S. political party formed in 1892 representing mainly farmers, favoring free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other monopolies
Populist Party
What group of people made up a majority of immigrants prior to 1870?
North and Western Europeans
Why did President Wilson want to remain neutral when WWI began?
Congress was isolationist
What main factor helped hide economic problems in the 1920s?
Widespread use of credit,
After the Civil War the south was divided into
Five military districts
Which Presidential candidate ran on an anti-imperialist pro farmer platform? (never became president)
William Jennings Bryan
Foreign policy proposed by President Wilson to condemn imperialism, spread democracy, and promote peace. But involved the most military action.
Moral Diplomacy
Which factors contributed to the start of WWI?
Zimmerman Telegram, unrestricted submarine warfare, sinking of the Lusitania
At its heart, the scopes trial was a clash between what?
Religion and Science
What were newly freedmen promised by the end of the Civil War?
40 acres and a mule
1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Plessy v Ferguson
Legislation that promised the US would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war
Teller Amendment
Made it illegal for Americans to speak disloyally about the US government, constitution, or flag
Sedition Act of 1918
What helped fuel economic growth by encouraging people to buy American goods?
Consumerism