Reconstruction
This was the time period after the ____ War
Civil
What new form of transportation made moving west easier and faster?
Railroads
Someone that exposed corruption and other bad things:
Muckraker
Exaggerated news stories that can have harsh consequences:
Yellow Journalism
The time period when alcohol was illegal in America is referred to as:
a. Illegalism
b. Alcoholism
c. Prohibition
c. Prohibition
Reconstruction was the rebuilding of the ________
South
What is it called when a company controls all aspects of an industry?
a. Hogging
b. Monopoly
c. Neurotic
b. Monopoly
Someone that fights to create change:
Reformer
Americans blamed Spain for sinking the USS_____
Maine
What party did Theodore Roosevelt run for, which could be blamed for Taft losing the election?
a. Bull Moose Party
b. Nice Moustache Party
c. Democratic Party
a. Bull Moose Party
a. 13th
b. 15th
c. 14th
c. 14th Amendment
Which group of people were negatively impacted by Americans going west?
Native Americans
Which Progressive President is responsible for conserving millions of acres of land?
a. Taft
b. Wilson
c. Roosevelt
c. Roosevelt
1 reason America was brought into WWI:
The Zimmerman Telegram and the sinking of the Lusitania
What TV show did we watch to see what life was like on the frontier?
a. The Waltons
b. Cowboys and Indians
c. Little House on the Prairie
c. Little House on the Prairie
What right did the 15th Amendment guarantee?
a. Voting rights for all races
b. Voting rights for men and women
c. The right to not be a slave
a. Voting rights for all races
Name 1 outlaw of the west:
Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid, Jesse James
Which book was about the disgusting conditions in the meat packing industry?
a. The Jungle
b. How the Other Half Lives
c. Where the Wild Things Are
a. The Jungle
Name 2 new weapons used in WWI
Hand grenades, flame throwers, poison gas, machine gun, planes, trench warfare, etc.
Someone that saw immigrants negatively, blaming them for corrupting American life and taking away jobs from American workers:
a. Racists
b. Nativists
c. Anti-Outsiderists
b. Nativists
What ended Reconstruction?
a. The presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
b. The start of the Spanish-American War
c. The Compromise of 1877
c. The Compromise of 1877
What was a negative thing about factories during this time period?
They were dangerous/dirty
Who started the NAACP?
a. Thurgood Marshall
b. Martin Luther King, Jr.
c. W.E.B. DuBois
c. W.E.B. DuBois
The US Senate did not allow the US to join the ______ out of fear it would bring us into another European War
League of Nations
Who won the Super Bowl?
The Kansas City Chiefs