Reconstruction/Industry
The period after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Amendment which banned the sale of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
What are the causes of World War 1?
Part of the Great Plains affected by a drought and over farming which created a natural disaster.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Rebirth of African American culture
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Gave rights to African Americans (freedman) after the Civil War.
What did the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments do?
Amendment which granted women suffrage.
What is the 19th Amendment?
League of Nations.
Which two countries "fought" in the Cold War?
What are the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
President Johnson's plan to end poverty.
What is the Great Society?
Supreme Court case that ruled segregation legal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
An increased demand for raw materials and a desire for new markets contributed to the U.S. looking for more land.
What is imperialism?
Event which forced the U.S. into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The U.S. wanted to contain this during the Cold War.
What is communism?
Bringing a government official up on charges.
What is impeachment?
Name one way that African American voting rights were limited after the Civil War.
What is poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests.
The explosion of the battleship Maine and yellow journalism.
What are causes of the Spanish American War?
Mass killing of Jews, gypsies and other minorities during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
What represented the end of the Cold War?
FDR's radio speeches during the Great Depression.
What are fireside chats?
Journalists who wrote about corruption in government and business.
What are muckrakers?
Newspaper articles designed to influence the public's ideas.
What is yellow journalism?
Secret document between Mexico and Germany during World War I to encourage an alliance between the two countries.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
The U.S. stopped the Soviet Union from putting missiles on this island in 1962.
What is Cuba?
President Nixon resigned over this event.
What is the Watergate Scandal?