LAP 5
Reconstruction & Post-Civil War
Reconstruction & Post-Civil War
This group wanted to punish the South and uplift newly freed men and women during Reconstruction.
What are the Radical Republicans?
This term describes the government policy of non-interference in business
What is laissez-faire?
This group of journalists exposed social issues and corruption.
Who are muckrakers?
America entered World War I after this event.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
or What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This Supreme Court case overturned “separate but equal.”
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This amendment granted suffrage to all men.
Samuel Gompers and Eugene V. Debs helped organize these worker groups.
What are labor unions?
The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire led to reform in this area.
What is workplace safety?
This legislation stifled free speech during WWI.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This act outlawed voting discrimination and gave federal oversight of elections.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
After this 1877 compromise, segregation became common in the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This law was passed to prevent monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The WCTU focused on ending alcohol abuse and this issue.
What is domestic violence?
The U.S. refused to join this organization after WWI.
What is the League of Nations?
This civil rights leader promoted nonviolent civil disobedience.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This economic system often left southern farmers in debt at harvest.
What is the sharecropping system or the crop lien system?
This group’s reputation declined after the Haymarket Riot.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
This firebrand female reformer spoke out against lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
The first atomic bomb was dropped on this Japanese city.
What is Hiroshima?
The U.S. supported West Berlin during the Soviet blockade with this operation.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson established this legal precedent.
What is “separate but equal”?
This 1887 act aimed to “Americanize” Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This amendment repealed Prohibition in 1933.
What is the Twenty-First Amendment?
This project developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This leader is most associated with the Second Red Scare.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?