Reconstruction Era
Law that banned slavery throughout the US
What is the 13th Amendment?
A period of serious social and political problems masked by economic growth
What was the Gilded Age?
A movement to fix economic and social problems
What is Progressivism?
The two groups fighting in WWI
What were the Allies and the Central Powers?
Group trained to spy on their neighbors & coworkers
What is the American Protective League?
Laws that enforced segregation in the South
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
When a company controls an entire industry
What is a monopoly?
Journalists who used sensational investigative reports to uncover the problems with society
What were muckrakers?
What MANIA stands for
What is Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Assassination?
Harsh Treaty mainly aimed against Germany but ended WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Lincoln's plan to quickly readmit the South back into the country
What is the 10% Plan?
Groups of workers in an industry who fought for better wages, hours, and working conditions
What are Labor Unions?
Law that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
Gavrilo Princip
Who was the German that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
President Wilson's rejected plan of trying to make peace with Germany in a fair and democratic way
Provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Businesses operate without government interference
What is Laissez Faire Economics?
Event that occured at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
A fire breaks out workers were trapped by locked doors
The cause of America officially joining WWI
What is the sinking of the Lusitania and Zimmerman Note or when an American ship was sunk by the Germans?
How did the US' entry into WWI overall impact the war?
Fresh soldiers were sent and overall led the Allies to victory
Unfair laws passed in southern states that GREATLY limited the rights of African Americans
What were the Black Codes?
Company owned areas that were highly priced, near factories, and forced workers to live there
What were Company Towns?
The law that banned the consumption or sale of alcohol
What is Prohibition or the 18th Amendment?
Policy of maintaining a large military establishment and a glorification of the military and war itself
What is Militarism?
Ethnic, modern-day slavic countries that caused tension within themselves and bigger countries
What are the Balkans or the "powder keg" of Europe?