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This amendment to the U.S. constitution granted blacks American citizenship.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
100
As of 1900, this was the major entry point for immigrants coming to the United States on the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island?
100
Journalists who sought to expose corporate and political corruption and social injustice in the Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers?
100
This British passenger liner was torpedoed and sunk by the Germans in May 1915.
What is the "Lusitania"?
100
This British passenger liner was torpedoed and sunk by the Germans in 1915.
What is the "Lusitania?"
200
While offering a way to resume agricultural production, this economic system forced many blacks to remain dependent on white landlords.
What is sharecropping?
200
An 1886 violent confrontation between police and workers during a labor rally in Chicago.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
200
This legislation established a national banking system in the United States.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
200
This public relations agency was created to disseminate patriotic propaganda and generally instill a pro-war fervor among Americans.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
200
The 1882 legislation severely restricted future immigration by a once- numerous and prominent Asian minority group in the West.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
The inclusion of black suffrage in this legislation initiated the period of radical reconstruction.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867?
300
The primary issue that triggered this 1894 strike was owners’ efforts to lengthen the workday from eight to ten hours.
What is the Cripple Creek Miners' Strike?
300
This legislation passed Congress in 1919 and was ratified by two-thirds of the states in 1920 as a reward for those who supported the war effort.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
300
Woodrow Wilson championed this organization to provide "mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike."
What is the League of Nations?
300
This northern denomination gave freedmen a chance to worship without the white oversight they had experienced during slavery.
What is the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
400
The establishment of this in 1865 significantly raised ex-slaves’ hopes of owning their own land.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
400
American sugar interests failed to annex this territory after fomenting a rebellion against a local queen.
What is Hawaii?
400
A mass of sociological evidence was used in this ruling to demonstrate the ill effects of working long hours on the health and safety of women.
What is "Muller v. Oregon?"
400
Americans who used words considered unpatriotic or abusive of the government could be tried and put in jail under this law.
What is the Sedition Act?
400
This Supreme Court case set a formula for restricting free speech.
What is "Schenck v. United States?"
500
This legislation was intended to protect southern Republicans from Ku Klux Klan violence.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
500
This series of provisions granted the United States the right to intervene to protect Cuba’s “independence,” as well as the power to oversee Cuban debt so that European creditors could not find an excuse for intervention.
What is the Platt Amendment?
500
This policy declared that the United States would step in if any Latin American nation proved guilty of “brutal wrongdoing,” and served notice to European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
500
This Supreme Court case set a formula for restricting free speech.
What is "Schenck v. United States"?
500
Apaches despised this desolate piece of desert into which they had been relocated in 1882.
What is the San Carlos Reservation?