Reconstruction
This made slavery illegal.
13th Amendment
Assembly line
These people, like Upton Sinclair, influenced the government to pass laws to improve social, economic and/or political conditions.
What are muckrakers
The US helped Panama break free from this country in order to build a canal.
What is Colombia
Germany was on this side of the war.
What is the Central Powers
These laws segregated people by race.
Jim Crow Laws
Name a law that encouraged westward expansion.
Homestead Act; Pacific Railway Act
This book led to the Meat Inspection Act.
What is The Jungle
This organization was created after the war in order to prevent future wars.
What is the League of Nations
This provided cheap labor for plantation owners.
What was sharecropping
This was a nativist law.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Name a law that tried to control trusts and monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act or the Interstate Commerce Act.
Name TWO ways the Treaty of Versailles tried to punish Germany.
What is pay reparations, reduce military, reduce land, take full blame, ...
Name two types of laws that prevented the 15th Amendment from being effective.
Literacy tests; poll taxes; grandfather clause
Name two "robber barons."
Vanderbilt; Rockefeller; Carnegie
This amendment resulted from the temperance movement.
What is the 18th Amendment
These were sold in order to help finance the war.
What are liberty bonds
Plessy vs. Ferguson established what legal principle?
"separate but equal"
Name one group of people that supported laissez faire.
Business owners; republicans
He was a muckraker who published pictures about tenement live in How the Other Half Lives.
Who was Jacob Riis
Identify THREE reasons why the US expanded beyond its borders.
1. to gain land 2. to gain raw materials / resources 3. to gain new markets to trade in 4. to gain more power 5. to acquire a military base 6. "white man's burden"
This international law was broken as a result of submarine warfare.
What is "Freedom of the Seas"?