Reconstruction
These three constitutional amendments banned slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This massive transportation network connected the East and West coasts, vastly accelerating westward migration.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This term describes the rapid growth of cities, largely caused by industrialization and the influx of immigrants.
What is urbanization?
This acronym represents the five main causes of World War I: Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination.
What is M.A.N.I.A.?
This 1896 Supreme Court decision legally permitted racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This economic system relies on private ownership and free markets, which the U.S. government favored via a hands-off, "laissez-faire" approach.
What is capitalism?
These investigative journalists and writers exposed corruption, poverty, and corporate abuses to reform society.
Who are muckrakers?
This conflict was triggered by the sinking of the USS Maine and sensational yellow journalism, resulting in the U.S. acquiring an overseas empire.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Southern legislatures passed these discriminatory laws and codes to bypass the Reconstruction amendments and restrict Black freedom.
What are Black Codes (or Jim Crow laws)?
This destruction of a specific animal population symbolized the loss of the Plains Indians' traditional way of life and independence.
What is the death of the buffalo?
This specific muckraker exposed the horrific and unsanitary conditions of the Chicago meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This international peace plan was rejected by the U.S. Senate because they feared it would drag America into future foreign conflicts.
What is the Treaty of Versailles (or the League of Nations)?
This post-Civil War era aimed to rebuild the South and integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into the nation.
What is Reconstruction?
He revolutionized the automobile industry by utilizing the assembly line to make cars affordable for the average American.
Who is Henry Ford?
This group of people held strong anti-immigrant views, believing that native-born Americans were superior to newcomers.
Who are nativists?
This Supreme Court ruling established that speech could be limited during wartime if it presented a "clear and present danger" to national security.
What is Schenck v. United States?
This popular anti-Reconstruction era song reflected the deep-seated anger, bitter resentment, and refusal to cooperate among many white Southerners.
What is "Good Ol' Rebel"?
This labor leader founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), successfully fighting for better wages and shorter hours for skilled workers.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
These three progressive political reforms gave voters more direct power by allowing secret voting, the removal of corrupt officials, and direct voting on laws.
What are the secret ballot, recall, and referendum?
The U.S. government used this powerful media tool during WWI to shape public opinion, encourage rationing, and sell war bonds.
What is propaganda?