Module 1: Reconstruction/Native Americans
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton encouraged African Americans to head West to seek a life of freedom. What were his followers called?
Exodusters
What do John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt have in common?
They all controlled monopolies during the Gilded Age and were considered "Captains of Industry" or "Robber Barons"
Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair are both famous ____ from the Progressive Era.
Muckrakers
America's position at the start of WWI was one of ________.
Neutrality
What caused many African Americans to flee (escape) the South in the 1920s?
Discrimination
What were the two goals of Jim Crow laws?
Segregation (separation by racial groups) and Disenfranchisement (denying someone the right to vote)
How did political machines like Tammany Hall get votes during the Gilded Age?
They helped immigrants find jobs and housing in exchange for votes.
What was the goal of labor unions in the Progressive Era?
In his Fourteen Points, Wilson emphasized that all countries should have the right to ______.
Self-determination (the right to govern themselves)
The cultural movement in the North that celebrated Black artists, writers, and musicians was called
The Harlem Renaissance
This law forced Native Americans to start farming and split up land into individual property in an effort to destroy tribal identity.
The Dawes Act
What was a negative effect of political machines?
Government corruption
Which Progressive Era leader advocated for full social and political equality for African Americans?
W.E.B. DuBois
I led the American Expeditionary Force in WWI. My name is.....
General John J. Pershing
Why did the automobile become more affordable in the 1920s?
Quicker, easier, and cheaper manufacturing of automobiles due to the assembly line method.
This Supreme Court case legalized segregation by establishing the doctrine of "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
What law was passed as a result of President Garfield's assassination?
The Pendleton Civil Service Act
What do the Interstate Commerce Act, the Sherman Antitrust Act, and the Clayton Antitrust Act have in common?
They increased the governments power to regulate businesses.
What was President Wilson's stated reason for the US joining WWI?
To spread democracy
Name one artist from the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellingtonl
This law allowed US citizens to travel West and claim up to 160 acres of land in exchange for farming it for 5 years.
The Homestead Act
What was the goal of Jacob Riis's photographs?
To draw attention to the poor living conditions of poor immigrants.
An industrialist who was opposed to welfare programs likely believed in what theory?
Social Darwinism
Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson all sought to expand America's influence in which geographic region?
Latin America
What was the First Red Scare?
A fear of communism during the 1920s