Reconstruction & Racism
This is the act of businesses or services separating people based on skin color, with expected "equal" accommodations.
What is segregation?
This is another word for "monopoly," or a company that controls one.
This is the system that protects unique American landscapes for future generations to enjoy.
What is the National Park System?
This is the modern form of warfare on the front lines of battle.
What is trench warfare?
This alliance included Great Britain, France, Imperial Russia, and eventually the USA.
What is the Triple Alliance (Allied Powers)?
These were the places Indians were forced to move to upon their loss of the Great Plains wars.
What are reservations?
Transportation, Companies, and Mechanization led to this development in the American economy.
What is Industrialization?
This is the movement for women's rights to vote.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is suffrage?
This is when both lines of each opposing side are caught at an impasse, or cannot move forward into opposing territory.
What is a stalemate?
This alliance included Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
What is the Triple Entente (Central Powers)?
These include grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and poll taxes, limiting the right to vote.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
This is the action of an authority in office using the public forum to advocate for changes in law or policy.
What is the "bully pulpit?"
This was the period of time when alcohol was banned in the United States.
What is Prohibition?
This government entity was created to regulate the inner workings of businesses and corporations.
These were the two reasons why the USA joined in WWI.
What is the Lusitania sinking & the Zimmermann Telegram?
This was the last battle of the war against the Great Plains Indians.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Wounded Knee?
America beat this empire and took their Caribbean and Pacific colonies.
Bonus 100: Name 3 of these colonies.
What is the Spanish Empire?
What is: Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
This non-government entity was created to regulate currency and serve as the nation's central bank.
What is the Federal Reserve?
This day is the official end to World War I. Also known as "Armistice Day."
What is November 11th?
OR
What is Veteran's Day?
The rise of the Nazis in Germany could be pointed to these two specific parts of the Treaty of Versailles.
What are reparations & land loss?
This was the "new form of slavery" after the 13th Amendment, where former slaves leased land and had to pay landowners the majority of their harvest.
What is sharecropping?
This beloved progressive figure ran for president under the "Bull Moose Party" but lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1912.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This is the political movement of common working people to achieve changes in the government through collective action.
What is populism?
This Act passed by Congress increased penalties for opposing or "dodging" the draft.
Bonus 100: What was the name of the Act that input the military draft?
What is the Espionage Act?
What is the Selective Service Act of 1917?
This Act passed by Congress limited the freedom to speak out against the war effort.
What is the Sedition Act?