Reconstruction (1865-77)
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th amendment?
He was a leader in the steel industry and became one of the richest men in America.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This president was known for completing the Panama Canal and for his participation in the Spanish-American War.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The U.S. entered World War II after this surprise attack on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This 1929 event produced the Great Depression.
What was the stock market crash or Black Tuesday?
He became president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This law, passed in 1882, was the first major federal law restricting immigration, especially from China.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This movement worked to pass laws that restricted or ended the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What is the Temperance or Prohibition movement?
This president proposed the League of Nations after World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This New Deal program created a fund for providing payments to the elderly.
What is the Social Security Act?
These laws were enacted in Southern states to restrict the freedom of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
Thomas Nast created political cartoons showing the corruption of the NYC "boss" of Tammany Hall.
Who is Boss Tweed?
The Meat Inspection Act was passed due to this Upton Sinclair novel that exposed conditions in meatpacking plants.
What is The Jungle?
This 1920 amendment to the Constitution won women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This president served four terms and led the U.S. through the Great Depression and World War II?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This agency was established in 1865 to help former slaves transition to freedom.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The completion of this major construction project in 1869 connected the eastern and western United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This 1911 factory fire resulted in 146 deaths and the passage of workplace safety laws.
What is Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
This violent group was active in the 1920s and targeted Catholics, immigrants and especially black Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan or KKK?
This project developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
What were the three constitutional amendments passed during Reconstruction?
What are the 13th 14th and 15th amendments?
This labor union federation, led by Samuel Gompers, won better wages, hours and working conditions.
What is the American Federation of Labor or AFL?
She opened the Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants and the poor.
Who is Jane Addams?
The assassination of this Austrian archduke triggered World War I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
These makeshift encampments built by the homeless during the Great Depression were named after a president from the time.
Who is Herbert Hoover?