Reconstruction
This term described Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to assist or profit from rebuilding efforts.
What are Carpetbaggers?
This 1882 law, reflecting nativist attitudes, banned immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This Progressive president is known for his “Square Deal,” which sought to balance the needs of workers, businesses, and consumers.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The assassination of this Austrian archduke triggered the start of World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This scandal under President Harding involved the leasing of government oil reserves to private companies.
What is the Teapot Dome scandal?
These constitutional amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed citizenship rights, and granted voting rights to African American men.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This practice occurs when a company controls all competitors in one industry, creating a monopoly.
What is horizontal integration?
This organization, founded in 1909, sought to fight for racial equality and civil rights.
What is the NAACP?
This note proposed a German alliance with Mexico in exchange for reclaiming lost territories.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
This cultural and artistic movement celebrated African American identity and flourished in New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This organization was established to assist freed slaves by providing education, food, and housing after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This landmark Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Journalists like Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell were known as this for exposing corruption and injustice.
What are muckrakers?
At the start of World War I, the United States pursued this policy to avoid entanglement in the conflict.
: What is neutrality?
This constitutional amendment prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Reconstruction ended in 1877 when this agreement withdrew federal troops from the South, marking the return of Democratic control.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth promoted this idea about the responsibility of the rich
What is philanthropy or giving wealth back to society?
Tammany Hall was a political machine most associated with this city and its infamous boss, William Tweed.
What is New York City?
This government organization used propaganda to influence public opinion and support for the war.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
The migration of African Americans to Northern cities during World War I and the 1920s was known as this.
What is the Great Migration?
These laws established racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction, enforcing “separate but equal” policies.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This term describes the business strategy of controlling every step of production, from raw materials to distribution.
What is vertical integration?
This 1906 law, passed in response to The Jungle, ensured safer food production in the meatpacking industry.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
The U.S. Senate rejected membership in this organization, fearing it would entangle America in future conflicts.
What is the League of Nations?
This trial highlighted the conflict between science and religion when a teacher was charged for teaching evolution.
What is the Scopes Trial?