Key Terms
The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
What is Monopoly
The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.
Founder of the UNIA, Black Star Line Fleet and Black Pride nationalist movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey
What is Manifest Destiny
A political party formed in 1834 by opponents of President Andrew Jackson and his Jacksonian Democrats.
What is the Whig Party
A theory that emerged in the 1870s, which applied the concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics, and politics.
What is Social Darwinism
The first highly publicized trial concerning the teaching of evolution
What is the Scopes Trial
Young woman known for wearing short dresses and bobbed hair and for embracing freedom from traditional societal constraints.
What are Flappers
White supremacist terrorist hate group founded in 1865.
What is the KKK
The period between 1865 and 1920 was marked by the increasing concentration of people, political power, and economic activity in urban areas
What is Urbanization
Led to more rights for women and eventually minorities, specifically for voting.
What is Suffrage
One of the largest movements of people in United States history, with approximately 6 million people moving from the south.
What is the Great Migration
He established the constitutionality of laws by not moving on the train, this lead to the supreme court decision of mandating separate but equal public accommodations for African Americans and whites.
Who is Plessy and/or Plessy v Fergusuon
They began specializing in importing and distributing alcohol during the time when it was illegal to have alcohol.
What is organized crime
Is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. Became a legalized form of slavery
What is Sharecropping
A period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of World War I (1917) and the onset of the Great Depression and lead up to World War II (the 1930s).
What was the Harlem Renaissance
This American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights
What is the NAACP
An anti-lynching crusader who used the power of journalism to raise awareness about the most extreme horrors of life under Jim Crow.
Who is Ida B. Wells
A home where destitute immigrants could go when they had nowhere else to turn. It provided family-style cooking, lessons in English, and tips on how to adapt to American culture.
What are Settlement Houses
This declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Inspired labor groups across the country to organize and fight to protect the rights of workers in industry.
What is a Labor Union
This transition went from creating goods by hand to using machines.
What was the Industrial Revolution
A Trinidadian-born rapper and singer based in the United States.
Who is Nicki Minaj
This began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba
What is the Spanish American Cuban War
This was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts.