Modern America
Term used to describe the linking of nations through trade, information, tech, and communication
This leader during the Reconstruction Era was a powerful voice for civil liberties and fought for an Amendment to guarantee voting rights
Who is Frederick Douglass?
What was the Maine?
The name of the side of World War I that the German Empire was on
What is the Central Powers?
Term that means nations, countries, and societies depending on one another for goods and services
What is Interdependence?
This person took over as president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination. He had his own Reconstruction plan that involved not punishing the South
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Term used to describe the growth of cities
What is Urbanization?
Document that stated the U.S. would act as the police of the Western Hemisphere
What was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
This country left World War I part way through the war (in 1917)
What is Russia?
Access to this new technology has improved the quality of life and encouraged population growth
What is heating and air condition?
This court case made segregation officially legal
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1898)?
Small, cramped apartments often housing multiple families in poor conditions
What are tenements?
One of three territories gained after the Spanish-American War (multiple possible answer)
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Phillippines?
The name for the style of fighting in World War I
What is Trench Warfare?
An example of cheaper and more convenient means of communication (multiple possible answers)
What is satellite systems, telecomms industry, internet, social media?
The 14th Amendment guarantees this term meaning equal protection under the law
What is due process?
Two large groups who immigrated to the United States during the late 1800s/early 1900s (multiple possible answers - you must give two for points)
Who are Chinese, Irish, Jewish, Italian, and Polish immigrants?
This construction project was an example of President Theodore Roosevelt using "Big Stick Diplomacy"
What is the Panama Canal?
The Treaty signed at the end of World War I (although not by the United States)
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This law was enacted after Sept. 11th and increased surveillance within the United States
What is the Homeland Security Act?
This early Civil Rights leader helped to establish the NAACP with Ida B. Wells
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Law that discriminated against a particular group of immigrants from Asia
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What is Yellow Journalism?
The name of Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace at the Paris Peace Conference
What are the Fourteen Points?