Reconstruction
Name the three Reconstruction amendments (the numbers).
13, 14, 15
The belief that the poor are destined to naturally die off and stay poor, in a cruel twist on Charles Darwin's theory of nature, is known as
Social Darwinism
This progressive president lost a presidential election after splitting from the Republican party, forming the "Bull Moose Party." He was shot on the campaign trail but survived.
Theodore Roosevelt
The US president during World War I
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to turn the country around during the Great Depression
New Deal
The Compromise of ___ ended Reconstruction.
1877
The Gilded Age was an era of much labor unrest and massive strikes. Name one strike from 1877-1900.
In order to construct a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Roosevelt supported the independence of this country from Colombia
Panama
This was the inciting incident of US involvement in WWI--
This trial over evolution being taught in a Tennessee school led to the conviction of an instructor teaching evolution as fact
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 removed authority of Reconstruction from President Johnson and required states to ratify these amendments to rejoin the union.
13 and 14
This robber baron believed in the "gospel of wealth," and donated much money to libraries, universities, and to the poor.
Andrew Carnegie
Puerto Rico or Guam
This ship was sunk by the Germans, killing many Americans and agitating the American public
Lusitania
The Republican president before FDR who advocated for small government
Herbert Hoover
These laws in the South were passed before the Reconstruction Act of 1867. They briefly reduced ex-slaves to an almost slave status, restricting them to plantations and prohibiting them from not having jobs.
Black Codes
This gilded age president was elected in a contested election in 1877 and agreed to end Reconstruction to be appointed president
Rutherford B. Hayes
Theodore Roosevelt's famed expression: "Speak softly and ___"
Carry a big stick
The name of the Austrian archduke whose assassination in Sarajevo caused the outbreak of WWI
Franz Ferdinand
These two Italian men were accused of murder and executed in the 1920s
Sacco and Vanzetti
This government office protected former slaves in the South, enforcing contracts, establishing Black schools, and setting up its own court system
Freedmen's Bureau
The act split up land on Native American reservations with this 1883 law
Dawes Act
Journalists who exposed corruption and inequality, such as Upton Sinclair in his book The Jungle
Muckrakers
The German plan to bypass French forts and invade France through Belgium in WWI.
Schleiffen Plan
Name one of the New Deal projects FDR created to help end the Great Depression
CCC, WPA, AAA, TVA