1865-1900
This amendment, sandwiched between emancipation and the right to vote amendments, gave formerly enslaved people citizenship.
*** DAILY DOUBLE*** This 26th president focused on Progressive reform through the Square Deal. For up to 400 points, name the president and the 3 Cs of the Square Deal!
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
What are Conservation, Corporation Regulation, and Consumer Protection?
This is the nickname for the day the Stock Market crashed on October 24, 1929.
This event, occurring on December 7, 1941, prompted the US to declare war on Japan, subsequently joining WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor>
This is the full name of the peaceful protest in Washington DC where MLK Jr. gave his I Have a Dream Speech.
What is the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
This is a large trust-company that controls the entire market of a good or service.
What is a monopoly?
This book by Upton Sinclair exposed the gross realities of the Chicago meat packing industry, leading to the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
What is The Jungle?
These make-shift shantytowns of temporary homes for unhoused people in the early depression earned this nickname, placing blame on the sitting president.
What are Hoovervilles?
This was the name of the secret US program to create the atomic bomb.
What is The Manhattan Project?
This is the name of the first group of black students that first integrated all-white schools in Arkansas.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
This 17th President took an unpopular approach to Reconstruction, pardoning Southern states and readmitting them to the nation without many repercussions for treason.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This was a nickname for investigative journalists, such as Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, that exposed the realities of Gilded Age industrial life.
What are Muckrakers?
These are the three categories of FDR's New Deal agencies and initiatives.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
This was an intergovernmental military alliance between Western European countries and the US, founded in the aftermath of World War II
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
This feminist and creator of the Women's Liberation magazine "Ms." spoke in front of the Senate, encouraging them to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, arguing that Women's Liberation is Men's Liberation too.
Who is Gloria Steinam?
This system limited economic and social mobility for formerly enslaved people, paying them very little to continue to farm on the land they were formerly enslaved.
What is Sharecropping? (will accept Tenant Farming)
This group, part of Wilson's Fourteen points plan after WWI, was never proven successful, partially due to congress's unwillingness to join.
What is the League of Nations?
This is the nickname for the many people migrating west, out of the Oklahoma area during the depression and dust bowl, looking for work.
What are Okies?
This was the European recovery program in which the US provided over 13 billion dollars to rebuild European infrastructure and encourage containment of the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This was the economic policy proposed by Reagan to cut government spending, reduce corporation regulation, and cut taxes.
This book, written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889, expressed a philosophy of philanthropy, encouraging the Gilded Age rich to give their money to social programs and reinvesting.
What is Gospel of Wealth?
These three forms of disenfranchisement enabled Jim Crow era political oppression.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause (also property deed proof)?
This New Deal legislation provided a government organized pension plan for retirement age people, freeing jobs for the younger population and lowering the unemployment rate.
What is Social Security?
FDR issued this executive order for the forced relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps (will accept the EO# or the name of the supreme court case affirming the order)
What is Executive Order 9066?
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What is Korematsu v US?
These were two prominent leaders of the Black Panther Party. (4 names are options)
Who was Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Stokely Carmichael, or Fred Hampton?