Reconstruction & Westward Expansion
This system required farmers to give part of their crops as rent.
What is sharecropping?
This rail line was the first continuous route across the United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This factory fire killed many workers and highlighted unsafe working conditions.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This war started after the sinking of the USS Maine and Spanish actions in Cuba.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This assassination is considered the spark that started World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Restricted black people's rights to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, etc.
What are black codes?
He made his fortune in the oil industry, owning the largest company in the U.S.
Who is Rockefeller?
This book by Upton Sinclair exposed unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants.
What is The Jungle?
This policy aimed for equal trade rights in China.
What is the open-door policy?
This note proposed a German-Mexican alliance against the United States.
What is the Zimmerman note?
This group, known for hate crimes and microaggressions, targeted minorities.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This invention allowed for mass production with standardized parts for weapons.
What are interchangeable parts?
This organization, founded by W.E.B. DuBois, worked to end segregation.
What is the NAACP?
The annexation of this island group made it the 50th U.S. state.
what is Hawaii?
This treaty ended WWI and established the League of Nations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
These people inhabited the land before it became the United States.
Who are Native Americans?
This act made it illegal to create trusts that restricted free trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This court case upheld racial segregation under “separate but equal” laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This canal significantly improved maritime transportation between oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This was the main type of fighting during WWI, characterized by long lines of trenches.
What is trench warfare?
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This term describes the government’s hands-off approach to economic issues.
What is Laissez-Faire Capitalism
These journalists exposed corruption in business and government.
Who are muckrakers?
This amendment allowed the U.S. to intervene in Cuba to protect its independence.
What is the Platt Amendment?
These bonds were sold to fund the U.S. war effort during WWI.
What are liberty bonds?