Reconstruction
This amendment formally abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Public support for the Spanish American support increased across America due to this type of dramatized newspaper writing that exaggerated events to pull readers in.
What is yellow journalism?
Extreme pride in your country - Prel.
What is nationalism?
The crashing of this economic feature of the U.S., along with Americans buying goods "on credit" contributed to the Great Depression.
What is the stock market?
Japan attacked this U.S. naval base in December of 1942, prompting the U.S. to declare war and officially enter World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This amendment grants citizens to anyone born in the United States, including formerly enslaved persons.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The process by which a city's population grows larger as more people move from rural areas to urban areas.
What is urbanization?
This term refers to the spreading of ideas used to sway opinion of the public and is often displayed in forms of media like posters, commercials, and other advertisements.
What is propaganda?
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Hitler invaded this country after promising he wouldn't, starting World War II.
What is Poland?
The implementation of poll taxes, literacy tests, and the Grandfather clause were all examples of these types of laws made to deny freed slaves of their right to vote.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This reformer published the horrors of the meatpacking industry in his novel, The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Unlike the Treaty of Versailles, which placed full blame for the war on Germany, Wilson's proposal was less harsh, and promoted peace between the countries to avoid another world war.
What is the Fourteen Points?
This President won in a landslide in 1932 during the height of the Great Depression, winning 472 electoral votes to his opponent's 59.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This term describes the policy British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain used to avoid war with Hitler.
What is appeasement?
After Southerners imposed voting restrictions that mainly impacted freed slaves, this amendment was passed that made it illegal to deny anyone the right to vote based on their race or background.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Jane Addams opened up this settlement house in Chicago as a center for immigrants and other citizens to learn, live, and assimilate into their new community.
What is Hull House?
Along with the interception of the Zimmerman Telegram, the sinking of this British passenger ship that contained U.S. citizens by German u-boats outraged Americans enough to enter World War I.
What is the RMS Lusitania?
Americans slept in these communities of small, run-down shacks during the Great Depression - there was even one in Central Park.
What are Hoovervilles?
During the Holocaust, Hitler captured Jews and shipped them to concentration camps for forced labor or death because they did not fit the ideals of this perfect race.
What is the Aryan race?
Facing Jim Crow laws and other forms of racism and discrimination, many freed slaves migrated to the North in the millions for new opportunities.
What is the Great Migration?
The U.S. built this waterway through the Central American country by which it shares its name, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, for both trading and military purposes.
What is the Panama Canal?
The assassination of this European leader led to the outbreak of World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Part of FDR's New Deal, this program provided jobs on public works projects to unmarried men ages 18-25.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?