Civil War
This marked the beginning of the Civil War
What is the attack on Fort Sumter
created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation
What is the NAACP
This was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
What is the Zimmerman Telegraph
The name of the pamphlet that Thomas Paine wrote that advocated independence from Great Britain is
What is Common Sense
The two type of reconstruction are
What is Presidental and Congressional Reconstruction
Slavery was outlawed in the Confederacy as a result of this announcement
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
What are Jim Crow Laws
helped convince many Americans, including President Woodrow Wilson, that all of the country's female citizens deserved the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment
This act was written British parliament that punished the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts
This amendment abolished slavery and involutary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment
A skilled military tactician and served as a Confederate general under Robert E. Lee in the American Civil War
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
provided detailed and accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing the United States
What are the Muckrakers
an international diplomatic group developed after World War I as a way to solve disputes between countries before they erupted into open warfare
What is the League of Nations
This group rallied support for colonial resistance through the use of petitions, assemblies, and propaganda; they sometimes resorted to violence
Who are the Sons of Liberty
restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
What are Black Codes
Lee's first attempt to invade the North was stopped in Maryland at this battle, the bloodiest single day of the war
What is the Battle of Antietam
a supreme court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine
What is Plessy v Ferguson
widespread fear of a potential rise of communism
What is the Red Scare
This treaty ended the French and Indian War. The French lost all of their territories in mainland North America.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1763
An American white supremicist terrorist hate group founded in 1865
Ku Klux Klan
this concept was used to destroy anything useful to the enemy and break the will of the South
What is Total War
minimum wage laws for women workers, instituted industrial accident insurance, restricted child labor, and improved factory regulation
What are Labor Laws
Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s
What is the Great Migration
The 13 American colonies set up emergency provisional governments in response to British policies leading up to the American Revolution
What are the Committees of Correspondence
provided assistance to tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the Southern States in the years after the war
What is the Freedman's Bureau