Reconstruction
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
This belief held that Americans were meant to expand westward across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This steel magnate argued that the rich had a duty to give back to society.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
The United States initially stayed out of World War I to avoid foreign conflicts
What is neutrality?
This decade was marked by economic growth, mass production, and new consumer goods.
What are the 1920s?
Despite these amendments, many Southern states still limited African American rights through new laws
What are Jim Crow laws?
This government policy gave settlers land in exchange for farming it.
What is the Homestead Act?
These crowded apartments housed many immigrant families.
What are tenements?
These programs increased public involvement in supporting the war
What are government mobilization efforts?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This organization helped formerly enslaved people with food, education, and legal support.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This invention made long-distance western travel faster and safer.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This era saw rapid growth in cities because of factory jobs.
What is urbanization?
This treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This event is often seen as the start of the Great Depression
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
These actions were commonly used to prevent African Americans from voting.
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
This policy aimed to force Native Americans to adopt American culture.
What is assimilation?
The term “Gilded Age” suggests that the era looked prosperous but was actually this
What is deeply unequal and corrupt?
These laws limited speech considered harmful to the war effort.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This president introduced programs to combat the Great Depression
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Reconstruction failed largely because of waning support in the North
What is political fatigue?
This 1887 law broke up tribal lands into individual plots
What is the Dawes Act?
The typical factory workday during the Gilded Age often lasted this long.
What is 10–12 hours?
Many Americans opposed the treaty because they feared this outcome.
What is being pulled into future foreign wars?
These programs aimed to provide jobs and economic relief
What is the New Deal?