Reconstruction
This constitutional amendment permanently abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The belief that God intended the United States to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This process made steel production cheaper and helped create skyscrapers.
What is the Bessemer process?
Sensationalized newspaper reporting that fueled support for war.
What is Yellow Journalism
Severe drought and dust storms worsened the Depression in this region.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This federal agency provided education, healthcare, and legal assistance to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This 1862 law offered free land to settlers willing to farm it
What is the Homestead Act?
This nickname described wealthy industrial leaders like Carnegie and Rockefeller.
What are captains of industry or Robber Barons
Theodore Roosevelt summarized his foreign policy with this phrase.
What is “Speak softly and carry a big stick”?
The stock market crash that began the Great Depression occurred in this year.
What is 1929
These Southern laws limited African American freedom and aimed to recreate conditions similar to slavery.
What are the Black Codes?
Railroads received massive land grants from the government through this project.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This religious movement argued Christians should help solve social problems caused by industrialization.
What is the Social Gospel?
This secret message from Germany to Mexico helped bring the U.S. into WWI.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This term describes the traditional values of self-reliance President Hoover promoted during the Depression.
What is rugged individualism?
This amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This 1890 massacre symbolized the end of Native American armed resistance.
What is Wounded Knee?
This industrialist wrote The Gospel of Wealth and argued the rich had a moral obligation to help society.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This purchase was the first American act toward American Imperialism
What is Alaska
This agency insured bank deposits and restored public confidence in the banking system.
What is the FDC
Term for the return of Former Confederate leaders that took back political control of the South?
Who are the Redeemers
African Americans who migrated west after Reconstruction in search of land and freedom were known by this name.
Who were the Exodusters?
This book written by exposed the poor living conditions of urban immigrants in New York City.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
President Wilsons plan for post World War I Europe that was rejected
What is the Fourteen Points
Franklin D. Roosevelt described this plan during his First Hundred Days to restore the economy.
What is the New Deal