Reconstruction
This Constitutional amendment abolished slavery.
13th Amendment
This American author was responsible for coining the term "gilded age."
Mark Twain
This American president was famous for his "Big Stick" diplomacy.
Theodore Roosevelt
The assassination of this figure was the fuse that started the first World War.
Archduke Ferdinand
This American president served only a single term due to his unpopular handling of the Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover
This U.S. president was nearly impeached, surviving only by a single vote, for defying Congress over Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
This robber baron authored the Gospel of Wealth.
Andrew Carnegie
This Pacific island chain became a U.S. territory as a result of a coup by U.S. businessmen known as the "Big Five."
Hawaii
The sinking of this American passenger vessel contributed to American involvement in the first World War.
The 1920s were often referred to by this nickname due to the immense wealth and prosperity that marked the decade.
Roaring Twenties
______ was an agricultural system developed during Reconstruction out of a loophole in the law, which essentially reinstated slavery.
Sharecropping
This New York politician ran Tammany Hall, a prominent political machine and the center of Democratic Party activity in New York City.
William "Boss" Tweed
This Pacific island chain became a U.S. territory as a result of the Spanish-American War.
The Philippines
This U.S. President led the country into the first World War in the hopes of having a say in the peace negotiations.
Woodrow Wilson
This environmental crisis added further disaster to American families already suffering economically in the Great Depression.
The Dust Bowl
This group spread terror through Black and poor white communities to discourage Black participation in American society.
Ku Klux Klan
The ideology that argued for "survival of the fittest" and justified the wealth gap between rich and poor.
Social Darwinism
This Latin American country was the location of an American-built canal that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
Panama
This organization, formed after World War I, was a precursor to the modern day United Nations.
League of Nations
This term refers to policies and tariffs imposed to keep manufacturing in the United States after World War I.
Protectionism
This U.S. president ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South.
Rutherford B. Hayes
This Nebraska political party attempted to break the two party cycle by representing the voices of farmers and those crushed by the railroads.
The Populist Party
Yellow journalism
This popular organization was formed to protect the "purity" of the U.S. Army during World War I.
YMCA
The 22nd Amendment was ratified in response to this president's four consecutive terms in office.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)