Reconstruction
This system kept recently free enslaved people farming small plots of land for former plantation owners.
Sharecropping
What you might call a business person in the Gilded Age who uses shady or immoral business practices
Robber Barons
This is how President Roosevelt communicated with people during the Great Depression
Fireside Chats on the radio
Music genre that appeared in the 1950s and 60s and was part of counter culture and a way for teenagers to rebel
Rock n Roll
This officially ended the Cold War
Fall of the Berlin Wall
These laws were put in place in the South; they criminalized vagrancy and homelessness, often pushing free African Americans into unfair sharecropping contracts
Black Codes
The philosophy that the government should not regulate the economy
Laissez-Faire
This Amendment prohibited the purchase, sale, and transport of alcohol
18th Amendment
The fear of Communism infiltrating America: occurred in the 1920s and again in the 1950s
Red Scare
This event is the closest the world came to nuclear war during the Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
This Constitutional Amendment ended legal slavery
13th Amendment
Investigative journalists who exposed corruption and social problems of the Gilded Age
Muckrakers
Name one of the reasons we entered WWI (there are 3 main ones, extra reasons for extra points)
Sinking of the Lusitania, Unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmerman Telegram
In the 1950s, mass produced neighborhoods began appearing outside of major cities. What were they called? Double points if you remember the name of the first
Suburbs, Levittown
The idea that two competing nations have to match each others' weapons capabilities to ensure that neither can destroy each other
Mutually Assured Destruction
This Amendment granted suffrage to black men
15th Amendment
The political party that advocated for nativism and did not like immigrants or Catholics
Know-Nothings
The moving of many African Americans to northern cities to avoid racial violence
Great Migration
A place that Americans went to drink alcohol in secret during Prohibition
Speakeasy
These documents revealed that the government knew the Vietnam War was likely unwinnable; when they were leaked the public no longer trusted LBJ
Pentagon Papers
This event occurred in North Carolina; it was a racially inspired coup d'etat (need city and year)
Wilmington Coup of 1898
The founder of the Hull House in Chicago; advocated to support immigrants
Jane Addams
The crude dwellings created by poor people who lost their jobs during the Great Depression
Hooverville/ Shantytown
This process made it much easier to create products and made products like cars and appliances affordable; Henry Ford was known for this production method
Assembly Line
This event during the Vietnam War was the killing of an entire village by American soldier in Vietnam.
My Lai Massacre