Reconstruction & Gilded Age
This amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
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The United States joined World War I because Germany resumed this.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This event in 1929 is considered the starting point of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
WW2 started on this date when Germany invaded Poland.
What is September 1, 1939?
This leader gave the “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr?
This term describes the period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and former slaves gained rights
What is Reconstruction?
This lively decade after WW1 was known for jazz music and flappers.
What is the 20s (Roaring 20s or 1920s)?
This term describes the severe economic downturn in the 1930s when many people lost jobs.
What is the Great Depression?
The United States entered World War II after Japan attacked this naval base in 1941.
What is Pear Harbor?
This war in the 1950s was the first time the Cold War heated up.
What is the Korean Conflict (Korean War)?
These laws in the South restricted the rights of African Americans after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This amendment to the Constitution banned the sale of alcohol in the United States during the 1920s.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This president created the New Deal to help Americans during the Great Depression.
Who was FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)?
This was the code name for the massive Allied land, sea, air invasion that took the beaches of Normandy, France.
What is Operation Overlord?
This war in the 1960s and 1970s was fought to stop communism in Southeast Asia.
What is the Vietnam War?
This era, named for its wealth and corruption, saw big businesses and inventions like the telephone.
What is the Gilded Age?
These were secret bars where people drank illegally during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
This New Deal program built dams and provided electricity to rural areas.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This was a tense period of rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What is the Cold War?
This Supreme Court case upheld segregation laws in the United States.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This wealthy Titan of Industry/Robber Baron built his fortune on oil.
Who is J.D. Rockefeller?
World War I was described using this six word phrase.
What is "the war to end all wars"?
These were shantytowns where homeless people lived during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
This term describes the fear of communism spreading in the United States during the Cold War.
What is the Red Scare?
This Supreme Court Case desegregated public schools leading to mass riots and public protest, especially among southern schools.
What is Brown v the Board of Education?