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CIVIL WAR
Civil Rights
WWI
100
What was the major cause of the Civil War?
What is Slavery
100
What was the Civil RIGHTS Movement?
People organized to demand equal rights for African Americans and other minorities.
100
When did WWI take place?
1914 - 1919
200
What were the two sides of the civil war?
What were the North and South - Confederacy & the Union
200
What two decades are considered the "Civil Rights Era"
What are the 1950s & 1960s.
200
What is Imperialism?
A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically.
300
Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures (as the North, South, and the West). This can lead to conflict.
What is Sectionalism
300
What were the laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks and whites called
What are Jim Crow Laws
300
A formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense
What is the Alliance System
400
What were the Civil War Amendments and how did they change the constitution? (What did they grant)
What are the 13th, 14th, & 15th amendments - 13th - Abolished Slavery, 14th - Granted citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., 15th - gave African American males to right to vote.
400
What was the Women's Sufferage movement trying to do?
What is primarily to grant women the right to vote
400
What was an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations & did it work?
What is the League of Nations and no did not work because WWII started less than 20 years later
500
Explain the ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson
1896 court case that established the "separate but equal" law. This made segregation CONSTITUTIONAL . ( a very bad court decision!)
500
Explain what the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling did
It overturned (or reversed) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision of 'separate but equal'. This made segregation UNCONSTITUTIONAL - (a very good RULING)