During Reconstruction, these members of Congress wanted to destroy the political power of former slave-owners. They also wanted full citizenship for African Americans and their right to vote.
Who are Radical Republicans?
100
This inventor and his team of researchers developed the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Favored by nativists on the West Coast, this act banned almost all immigrants from China and was the first restriction ever placed on immigration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)?
100
These included airplanes, machine guns, tanks, poison gas, and submarines.
What are New Technologies of WWI?
100
This was the primary cause for the unemployment rate to jump from 1.4% in 1919 to 11.7% in 1921, when our nation at war was returning to peace.
What is demobilization?
200
This amendment to the Constitution states that that no one can be kept from voting because of, "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
This entrepreneur used the Bessemer Process to mass produce steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
Passed in 1920, this amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
The sinking of this British passenger ship on May 7, 1915 had a powerful impact on the American public by stirring up anti-German feelings and creating a desire for revenge.
What is the Lusitania?
200
Coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this term is used to describe the 1920s.
What is the Jazz Age?
300
Upheld by the Supreme Court case, Plessy vs. Ferguson, these laws permitted, or even required, racial separation in public places.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
300
The complete control over the production of a good or service; one type of this "business consolidation" is a trust.
What is a monopoly?
300
Mainly known for their corruptness (ex. Tammany Hall), these organizations did serve useful functions, such as assisting the social and political assimilation of immigrants into the community.
What is a political machine?
300
Its construction reduced the shortest water route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by 8,000 nautical miles, but caused the United States to be resented by Colombia and other Latin American countries.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
These young women of the 1920s embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day which included shorter dresses, cutting their hair short, and demanding recognition as individuals first, and as wives and mothers second.
Who are flappers?
400
Under this system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a portion of their crop, Freedmen often remained in a state of economic dependence on their former masters.
What is sharecropping?
400
When one owner has complete control over all stages of the production and distribution process of a product or service.
What is vertical integration?
400
Supported by the "Captains of Industry", this economic and social philosophy held that a system of unrestrained competition would ensure the survival of the fittest; suggesting that hard work, perseverance, and intelligence would lead to financial success.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
Our victory in this war in 1898 is often considered a major turning point in U.S. history because it revealed that we had become a world power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
400
This organization was founded in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois and others to promote full racial equality for all.
What is the NAACP?
500
This speech given by William Jennings Bryan supported a policy of bimetallism that would help farmers by raising crop prices.
What is Cross of Gold?
500
Aimed at correcting unfair railroad practices, this act prohibited different rates for different customers for hauling freight the same distance and banned price-fixing agreements.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act (1887)?
500
The primary goal of this organization, founded by Samuel Gompers, was to obtain better pay, better working conditions, and an 8-hour work day for its members.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
500
President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in negotiating this treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War.
What is the Treaty of Portsmouth?
500
The arrest, trial, and execution of these two radicals reflected America's growing fear of immigrants and ideas such as communism.