The Civil War & Reconstruction
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Reduced tracts of land created to make room for white settlers and separate Native Americans from the surrounding populations.
What are reservations?
This act prohibited Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Violent, public, extrajudicial killings, most usually of African Americans.
What are lynchings?
World War I originated as a conflict between these two countries.
What are Austria-Hungary and Serbia?
The percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War.
What is 2%?
The belief that no matter how much land the United States gained, Native American tribes were still “in the way."
What was the "Indian Problem"?
The first corporations.
What are railroads?
This domestic terror organization was established to target African Americans, and later, immigrants, Catholics, & Jews.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This event prompted the secession of South Carolina and other southern states from the Union.
What was the election of Abraham Lincoln?
A series of bloody conflicts between the Sioux and the U.S. government that took place between 1851-1890.
What were the Sioux Wars?
These three factors were the main contributors to the rapid urbanization of the 19th century.
What are industrialization, immigration, & migration?
Laws passed by southern states following the Civil War that essentially re-established slavery.
What were black codes?
The name given to the condition that caused soldiers to suffer from confusion, tremors, nightmares, and other psychological effects in World War I.
What was shell shock?
This radical abolitionist was convicted of treason & hanged for leading a failed raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who was John Brown?
This act attempted to force Native Americans to assimilate by breaking up reservations and ending tribal government.
What was the Dawes Act?
A type of business consolidation that created a single holding company for the stocks of several leading businesses in an industry.
What is a trust?
An African American cultural movement that originated in New York City in the 1920s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The four main factors that ultimately led to World War I.
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, & nationalism?
These acts required the election of new constitutional conventions in the South.
What were the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
This act officially ended the U.S. government's practice of negotiating treaties with Native American tribes.
What was the Indian Appropriations Act of 1871?
This political machine controlled the New York City government in the 1860s.
What was Tammany Hall?
A series of violent clashes that erupted between black and white Americans in U.S. cities in 1919.
What was the Red Summer?
This Serbian nationalist organization was associated with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
What was Black Hand?