Reconstruction & Jim Crow
This was the primary reason the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were added to the Constitution during the Reconstruction period.
What is to grant legal rights to African Americans?
This type of change in manufacturing goods was brought about by the Industrial Revolution in the years immediately following the Civil War.
What is more machinery being used to make goods?
This foreign policy layout, highlighted by the acquisitions of Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines by 1900, showed a deep U.S. commitment to global expansion.
What is imperialism?
Intense nationalism, militarism, and entangling alliances are historically classified under this single heading.
What are the causes of World War I?
This popular 1920s financial practice of installment buying and using unbacked capital directly caused the Great Depression.
What is the overuse of credit?
The Cold War developed shortly after World War II primarily due to the deeply conflicting political and economic goals of these two superpowers.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This extremist terrorist organization was responsible for planning and carrying out the tragic hijacked airplane attacks on September 11, 2001.
What is Al-Qaeda?
Southern states passed literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses specifically to achieve this restrictive goal.
What is to limit the rights of formerly enslaved persons?
This collective term describes the early 1900s writers and critics who sought to expose corruption and abuses in industry.
What are Muckrakers?
A major commercial and military reason why the United States highly valued the acquisition of this Pacific island territory was its key location for the sugar trade and strategic naval ports.
What is Hawaii?
Out of all global regions, this specific European source area sent the largest number of immigrants (7,900,000) to the U.S. between 1840 and 1920.
What is Great Britain and Ireland?
Fads and flappers, the Harlem Renaissance, Charles Lindbergh, and the 1929 Stock Market Crash are all best grouped under this era title.
What are the Roaring Twenties?
The Korean War, Berlin airlift, Cuban missile crisis, and Vietnam War are all classified under this overarching 20th-century geopolitical heading.
What are Cold War events?
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the principle of “separate but equal”.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1906 book by Upton Sinclair shocked the public by exposing unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
The United States constructed this major Latin American waterway primarily to drastically shorten the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
What is the Panama Canal?
This specific geographic region of the United States contained the vast majority of states that had granted full voting rights to women before 1919.
What is the West?
This New Deal law established a lasting system of unemployment insurance and pensions for retired workers.
What is the Social Security Act?
Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. leveraged their national platforms to advocate for massive federal reform in this specific arena.
What are civil rights?
The judicial doctrine of “separate but equal” was explicitly used by states to accomplish this practice regarding public facilities.
What is to justify racial segregation?
According to political cartoonists of the era, this president's policy toward trusts was to control "good" ones through restraint and completely break up "bad" ones
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This immediate, tragic event in Havana Harbor sparked the United States' declaration of war against Spain in 1898.
What is the mysterious explosion of the battleship USS Maine?
This post-WWI presidential campaign phrase meant going back to life as it had been before the global conflict.
What is a “return to normalcy”?
These three words represented the core, foundational goals of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs.
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
In 1957, President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce this monumental, desegregating Supreme Court decision.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This historical era immediately followed the Civil War and served as the background for the ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What is the Reconstruction period?
These two dynamic inventions did the most to speed up long-distance communication during the late 1800s.
What are the telegraph and the telephone?
This massive territory, purchased by the United States in 1867, marked an early step on the map of expanding non-contiguous U.S. territory.
What is Alaska?
This specific event, which occurred in June 1914, served as the immediate spark that triggered the official beginning of World War I.
What is the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary?
As a direct critique of the executive branch's handling of the early 1930s economic crisis, shantytowns across the nation were given this bitter nickname.
What are Hoovervilles?
This specific domestic cover-up by President Richard Nixon directly resulted in his historic resignation from office.
What is the cover-up of the Watergate break-in?