Reconstruction
This is a tax you have to pay to vote
What is a poll tax
This man founded the Standard Oil Company
WHat is a John D Rockefeller
Britain joins WWI after Germany invades this country
What is a Belgium
This ex general was president after Andrew Johnson
WHat is a Ulysses S Grant
This is what the British call a biscuit
What is a scone
Blacks in the South often had to take these tests to vote
What is a literacy test
This beverage company was founded after the Civil War
What is Coca Cola
WWI began after the assassination of this Austrian Archduke
What is an Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This president was assasinated in 1901
What is a William McKinley
This is a company that sells stocks of itself
What is a corporation
This term refers to working on someone else's land because you are indebted to them
What is sharecropping
This is a textile factory with terrible working conditions
What is a sweatshop
The Germans used this illegal weapon in WWI
WHat is chemical gas
This man founded a massive steel company in Pittsburgh
What is an Andrew Carnegie
This was the German plan to defeat France then turn around and defeat Russia in WWI
WHat is the Schlieffen Plan
This president was assasinated in 1865
What is an Abraham Lincoln
This was the first company to deliver products through mail delivery with a catalogue
What is Sears
This future US President led the "Rough Riders in the Spanish American War
What is a Theodore Roosevelt
This US Admiral forced the Japanese to open up their ports in the 1850s
What is a Matthew Perry
German submarines are called this
What is a U Boat
This Supreme Court case upheld segregation
What is Plessy v Ferguson
In these riots, union members threw bombs causing many Americans to turn against unions
What are the Haymarket Square Riots
The Spanish American War began after the sinking of this US Warship
What is the U.S.S. Maine
Reconstruction ended when this US President was elected
What is a Rutherford B Hayes
This was the policy that stated that not only could European countries not get involved in South America, but the USA could directly intervene in their conflicts
What is the Roosevelt Corollary