Reconstruction
Gilded Age
Expansion
Progressive Era
WW1
100

Essay written by W.E. Du Bois that talks about the part of Black Folk played in Reconstruction

Black Reconstruction

100
Phrased used to refer to this period in history where it looked the country was prospering because of big business but in reality the working class was suffering and social inequalities continued to increase.

Gilded Age

100

Phrase coined from the poem by Rudyard Kipling which was used to justify American political intervention overseas. This was especially prevelant during the Philippines - American War, acquisition of Hawaii, Platt Amendment

White Man's Burden

100

Preiod of US history named because of the various progressive movements happening during this period

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(200 extra points): What were some of the reforms the groups where pushing for? How was this also an era of repression?

Progressive Era

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Potential points: Black Americans fighting for civil rights, women's suffrage, workers rights and unions, Ludlow massacre, eugenics, immigration restrictions

200
Group/type of laws implemented at the end of Reconstruction in southern states that enforced racial segregation

Jim Crow laws

200

Book written by Henry George

Bonus 100 points: What was his main argument?

Progress and Poverty 

There's no reason to be poor in America, American success is not fairly distributed

200

Refers to conflict where America supported Cuban revolutionaries in their fight for independence from Spain

Spanish - American War

200

Union founded by 200 socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists that was aimed at organizing all workers in any industry

IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)

200

Legislative act which aimed to suppress anti-war sentiment and severely restricted first-amendment rights which often targeted immigrants, labor unions, and political radicals

Espionage Act of 1917

300

Open-ended question: The American Yawp argues that Reconstruction "was a moment of revolutionary possibility and violent backlash." What was the potential of this possibility, and what role did violence toward this possibility serve?



*to earn points the group must attempt to answer the short answer question

Possibility: could mention how the beginning of Reconstruction was a hopeful time for Black folks (rise of political participation, Civil Rights Act, 13-15 amendments)

Violence: could mention Rise of KKK, Texas Rangers, Black Codes aimed to stifle advancements and put Black folks "in their place"

300

Refers to a wage based economy where private citizens or businesses own production means for profit

Capitalism

300

One of the many pieces of legislation designed to take away Native land and give it Americans - Allowed Male U.S. citizens to claim 160 acres of Native land upon the condition of "improving" the land

Homestead Act of 1862

300

American Anarchist and Feminist who was skeptical of the Women's Suffrage movement

Emma Goldman

300

The message sent from Germany to Mexico offering to help Mexico regain land that the US took after the Mexican-American War

Zimmerman Telegram

400

Application of "survival of the fittest" theory to American economics (during this time)

Social Darwinism

400

Native American ritual tied to a prophecy where ancestors would rise, buffalo would come back, and colonizers would disappear that would lead to increased violence against Natives and would eventually be banned by the US gov't

Ghost Dance

400

Strike where National Guard was called in to break it up and opened fire on camps where workers were living and set them on fire 

Ludlow Massacre of 1914

500

Method of production that had people people working at one stage of production instead of one person building the whole product which dramatically speeds up production

Taylorism

500

Refers to period of time where there was increased violence against Mexicans and Mexican Americans, from 1910-1920 

La Matanza

500

Riot started by Carmelita Torres who inspired the women she was traveling to the US from Mexico to refuse the order to bathe 

El Paso Bath Riots of 1917

500

Upon getting arrested under the Espionage Act, Emma Goldman explains that she practices patriotism that "loves America with open eyes". What did she mean?

"Enchanted by her beauty and yet who cannot be blind to her defects", we can love America but in that love we cannot be blind to the country's faults and areas of improvement