Civil War/Recontruction
Notherans who moved south after the war
Who is Carpetbaggers ?
Prevention of the manufactue and sale of achohol
What is Prohibition?
extreme pride in one's country
What is Nationalism?
Resulted when the loans could not be repaid
What is Bank Failures?
A special fee that people pay before they could vote
What is a poll tax?
Jim crow era law that prevented Afrian Americans from voting
What is Grandfather Clause?
Any laws that that enforced racial segregation
What is Jim crow laws?
The British empire France, Russia and later the United states
What is Allied powers?
just as one could buy goods on credit , it was easy to borrow money in the stock market
What is Margin investing?
Gave all African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment ?
A group that worked to keep Black and White Repbulicans out of office
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
a insect that destroyed Cotton crops in the south
What is Boll Weevil?
British luxurious ocean liner going to New York to Liverpool, England
What is Lusitania?
the stock market crash
What is Black Tuesday?
breaking a law that you find to be unjust in order to draw attention to the unfairness
A president who signed the homestead act in 1862
Who is President Lincon?
Seprate but equal policy
What is Plessy Vs Ferguson?
Mudering some one , usually a public figure.
What is Assassanation?
drought caused widespread crop failure
What is the Dust Bowl?
African American students registered to attendto desegregate, but Governor ovral Fabus opposed intergation
What is The Little Rock Nine?
A problem with facing the south was how to deal with with millions of freed slaves
What is Freedmen?
Districts were redrawn so that one district had an African American majority
What is Gerrymandering?
agreements between nations to provide aid and protect one another
What is Alliances?
Blamed for not doing to address the crisis
Who is President Herbert Hoover?
to protest discrimination and to urge congress to pass a civil rights bill sent by President kennedy
What is March on Washington?