Reconstruction
This President's Second Inaugural Address called for "charity for all" and a fair, and generous peace.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Business leaders like John D. Rockefeller formed these to limit competition and control entire industries.
What are monopolies or trusts?
This sensational style of reporting used exaggerated headlines to pull the U.S. into war with Spain.
What is Yellow Journalism?
During the 1920s, many Americans stopped saving and increased their use of this to buy new products.
What is credit or installment buying?
President Roosevelt called this event on December 7th, 1941 "a date which will live in infamy."
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This Constitutional Amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These "investigative journalists," such as Jacob Riis Ida Tarbell, worked to expose social and expose social and economic abuses.
Who were muckrakers?
This intercepted German note promised to help Mexico "reconquer" Texas if they joined WWI against the U.S.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
This massive movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities led to the Harlem Renaissance.
What was the Great Migration?
What was the Manhattan Project?
This Constitutional Amendment granted "equal protection" and citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
What was the Homestead Act?
Following the Spanish-American War, the U.S. moved away from isolationism and emerged as one of these.
What is a major world power?
These poor-run down towns, named after a President, became a symbol of the suffering during the Great Depression.
What were Hoovervilles?
The U.S. policy of the Cold War that aimed at stopping the spread of Communism was called this.
What is containment?
Southern states used these two strategies to prevent African Americans from voting.
What was poll taxes and literacy tests?
Many political cartoons of the era showed the wealthy taking advantage of this struggling social class.
Who is working class/laborers?
Posters were an example of this tool used on the home front to convince men to enlist in the war and for citizens to buy Liberty Bonds.
What is propaganda?
DAILY DOUBLE: This new production method helped the economy in the 1920s by making more of the same good for a lower price.
What is mass production?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that "separate but equal" has no place in public education.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
This political agreement results in the removal of military districts from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Jacob Riis wrote How the Other Half Lives to expose the crowded, unsanitary conditions in these city apartments.
What are tenements?
What year did the United States officially join World War I?
What is 1917?
This 1920s cultural movement in New York City celebrated African American art, music and literature.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for this form of non-violent protest to fight against unjust laws.
What is civil-disobedience?