Reconstruction
This amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This law gave settlers 160 acres of land if they settled on and improved the land, prompting many Americans to travel west.
What is the Homestead Act?
This war began after the explosion of the USS Maine and the spread of sensationalized yellow journalism.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The assassination of this Austrian leader was considered the "spark" that began World War I?
What is buying on margin?
Germany officially started World War II by invading this country in 1939.
What is Poland?
These laws restricted the rights of formerly enslaved people in the South during the Reconstruction Era.
What are the Black Codes?
This railroad connected the Western United States to the Eastern United States, increasing the movement of people and natural resources across the country.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Journalists who exposed corruption and problems in American society during the Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and this "N" word were the four "MAIN" causes of World War I.
What is Nationalism?
This event involved massive dust storms and drought that devastated the Great Plains region throughout the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This surprise naval attack by the Empire of Japan brought the United States into World War II?
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This organization helped formerly enslaved people people with education, food, and jobs after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This 1887 law attempted to assimilate Indigenous peoples by dividing tribal lands into individual plots of land.
What is the Dawes Act?
Theodore Roosevelt became known for breaking up these powerful business combinations as a part of his "Square Deal".
What are monopolies/trusts?
Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare and this secret telegram helped push the United States into World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
The 3 R's of FDR's "New Deal".
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
The United States military was instrumental in this WWII battle that opened a second front against Nazi Germany in World War II?
What is D-Day (Invasion of Normandy)?
This faction of Congress advocated and pushed for harsher punishments for former Confederate States and increased civil rights for African Americans.
What are Radical Republicans?
The economic policy in which governments should do little to interfere in the free markets of businesses.
What is laissez faire?
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle helped lead to the passage of what Progressive Era legislation?
What is the Meat Inspection Act? (or Pure Food and Drug Act)
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature in the 1920s, creating a new Black identity.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This New Deal program insured bank deposits to help restore confidence in the banking system.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
This policy allowed the U.S. to send war supplies to the Allies even while remaining officially "neutral".
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This agreement ended Reconstruction by establishing Rutherford B. Hayes as the president in exchange for the complete removal of federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
These organizations like Tammany Hall that traded jobs and services for votes and loyalty among the urban poor and immigrants.
What are political machines?
This 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine established the right of the U.S. intervene in the affairs of Latin America and act as an "international police force".
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Buying goods with borrowed money became common in the 1920s and was known as this.
What is credit / installment buying?
Herbert Hoover was blamed by many Americans for worsening the Great Depression by passing this legislation that increased protective tariffs on American industries and agriculture.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Act?
This "board" was responsible for shifting the United States economy towards war production during World War II.
What is the War Production Board?