A federal government agency that was created during congressional reconstruction to help the newly freed Blacks mediate social, economic and political problems in the South?
The Freedman's Bureau
100
A type of farm tendency that developed after the civil war in which landless workers, often former slaves, farmed land in exchange for farm supplies and a share of the crops.
Sharecropping
100
the process when Immigrants blend into the American culture but retains cultural identity.
Assimilation
100
The first president, in 1871, to send federal troops to the South to put down the riots against integration.
President Grant
100
Emphasized the idea that America has the right to intervene in the Caribbean to keep the peace. So, between 1901 and 1920, US intervention in the Western Hemisphere increased tremendously.
Roosevelt Corollary
200
Laws passed in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves during reconstruction.
Black Codes
200
US supreme court case that ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories, on the grounds that such a prohibition would violate the 5th amendments rights of the slaveholders, that no black person could be a citizen of the US.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
200
According to W.E.B. DuBois, the educated Blacks in the early twentieth century, was expected to be the catalyst to educate other Blacks to uplift the race, as a whole. What were they called?
The Talented Ten
200
The first Black Mayor of Chicago
Harold Washington
200
In World War 11, the nations of Germany, Italy and Japan, were considered ...
the Axis Power
300
Derisive term for Northern immigrants who participated in the Republican governments of the reconstruction South.
Carpetbaggers
300
From 1886 they terrorized former slaves who voted and held political offices during reconstruction; revived in the 1910s and 1920s, and again in the 1950s and 1960s to fight the civil rights movement in the South.
Ku Klux Klan
300
The idea that the US would support only Latin American governments that were democratic, or otherwise supported United States interest. The president hoped to influence and controlled other countries through economic pressure.
Moral Diplomacy
300
The first Democratic Catholic senator of New York who ran against Hoover for presidency in 1929.
Governor Al Smith
300
President James Monroe declaration to Congress on December 2nd, 1823, that the American continents would be thence forth closed to European colonization, and that the US would not interfere in European affairs.
The Monroe Doctrine
400
Deal made by a Republican and Democratic special congressional commission to resolve the disputed election of 1876. Republican Hayes had lost the popular vote but was later declared winner in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from involvement in politics in the south.
Compromise of 1877
400
He was a slave preacher who with his followers,led the most important slave uprising in nineteenth century America, and killed about 60 white person in South Hampton county , VA, in 1831.
Nat Turner
400
American longstanding reluctance to become involved in European alliances and wars
Isolationism
400
Franklin D. Roosevelt
His government established the alphabet agencies, and the "New Deal" to regulate the economy during the "Great Depression", 1933-1945.
400
Organization of Nations to mediate disputes and avoid war, established after world war 1 as part of the Treaty of Versailles. The US never joined.
League of Nations
500
Group within the Republican Party in the 1850s and 1860s that advocated strong resistance to the expansion of slavery.
Radical Republicans
500
Founded in 1910, as a civil rights organization. It brought lawsuits against discriminatory practices and published "The Crisis", a journal edited by African American scholar, W.E.B DuBois.
NAACP
500
In this speech given by President Woodrow Wilson, on January 18, 1918, he told Congress that the Great War/WW1 was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe.
The "Fourteenth Point" Speech
500
He founded Standard Oil Company in 1870 which grew into the nation's first industry-dominating-trust. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 was enacted as a result of the abuses of his company.
John D. Rockefeller
500
News from the German foreign secretary to the German minister in Mexico, instructing him to offer to recover Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona for Mexico if it would fight the US to divert attention from Germany in the event the US joined the war.