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Reconstruction
Industrialization
Progressive Era
Imperialism
1920s and 30s
100
The 14th Amendment
What is granted citizenship to freed slaves?
100
Limited railroads abilities to exploit farmers. Declared unconstitutional by the SCOTUS
What are Granger Laws?
100
Advocate for women and child labor
Who was Florence Kelly?
100
Annexed by the US in 1898 following an American-led coup against the queen.
What is Hawaii?
100
Scandal involving Harding's Secretary of the Interior and the sale of oil reserves.
What is Tea Pot Dome?
200
Discriminated against freed slaves and segregated Southern society. Resulted in Congress seizing control of Reconstruction.
What are the Black Codes?
200
Made the production of steel cheaper and easier
What is the Bessemer Process?
200
Believed African-Americans should accept segregation in the short term and focus on economic independence.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
200
Target of the Yellow Press for its human rights abuses in Cuba
What is Spain?
200
Harding promised this. Meant an end to Progressive reforms and overseas adventures.
What is a return to normalcy?
300
Ended Reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877
300
Made John D. Rockefeller the richest man in the world even after it was broken up by the SCOTUS
What is Standard Oil?
300
Best known socialist leader. Ran for president several times, once while in prison.
Who was Eugene Debs?
300
Annexed by the US but resulted in a long and bloody guerrilla war in which American forces ran concentration camps
What is the Philippines?
300
Term to describe little or no government regulation of the economy
What is laissez faire?
400
Led by Republicans in Congress who wanted to punish the South.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
400
Owned by a Scottish immigrant who exemplified the rags to riches stories
What is Carnegie Steel?
400
Direct-election of senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
400
Gave the US control of Cuba economy and diplomacy
What is the Platt Amendment?
400
SCOTUS ruled that the federal government violated this principle in Schecter v. US (aka the sick chicken case)
What is the interstate commerce clause?
500
Hayes become president, The removal of troops from the state houses of SC and LA, non-enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendments
What is the Compromise of 1877
500
Epidemic disease that spread rapidly through urban areas due to poor sanitation
What is cholera?
500
Legalized income taxes.
What is the 16th Amendment?
500
Racist theory that justified US subjugation and exploitation of Cubans, Filipinos, and Puerto Ricans.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
Was intended to provide the elderly with a guarantee income. Originally the idea of Francis Townsend/
What is Social Security?