Social Studies Orange 8 Review

Reconstruction

100

What did the 13th Amendment do

Abolished Slavery

200

This Amendment gave African American men the ability to vote

15th Amendment

300

This Supreme Court case ruled Jim Crow Laws constitutional with the term "separate but equal" becoming the reasoning

Plessy v. Ferguson

400

This practice of employment in the south kept former slaves in a cycle poverty and prevented them from owning land

Sharecropping

500

Due to Jim Crow Laws, KKK, racism etc. many African Americans left the south and moved west and to northern cities. What was this called?

The Great Migration

Progressive Era

100

Many Immigrants who moved to big cities found themselves living in these

Tenements

200

These were a group of people who exposed corruption and poor conditions (working, living, food safety etc.) throughout American life

Muckraker

300

Teddy Roosevelt helped signed this act after Upton Sinclair's The Jungle exposed the meat packing industry

Pure Food and Drug Act

400

This muckraker helped expose the issue of child labor

Lewis Hine

500

Due to a false report, a mob white men attacked a black neighborhood taking over 300 lives in 1921. What was the name of this event? 

Tulsa Race Massacre

Roaring 20's

100

Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and W.E.B Dubois were all apart of this time period when African Americans prospered in the arts and literature

Harlem Renaissance 

200

Another term for the era where a temperance movement successfully created the 18th amendment and banned the making and selling of alcohol

Prohibition

300

The Women's Suffrage Movement pushed for this

Voting Rights

400

This term is best used to describe 1920's women who were finding new ways to reinvent themselves by dressing and acting different from more traditional ways

Flapper

500

This was the term for when people bought stocks using installment buying/credit

Buying stocks on the margin

Immigration/Migration

100

This helped connect the east and west coasts while making travel time faster and safer

Transcontinental Railroad

200

This act in 1862 encouraged settlers to move west by offering them land as long as they built a home and settled the land

Homestead Act

300

Native Americans were moved off their land and forced to assimilate into American culture. Name 1 way Native Americans were relocated and 1 way they were forced to assimilate. (Only answers from 8th grade!)

Reservations and Boarding Schools

400

This term would be used for someone who was against immigration and new cultures coming to America

Nativist

500

The New Colossus is a poem that encourages immigrants of all kinds to come to America, and is even on the Statue of Liberty. Who wrote this poem?

Emma Lazarus 

World War I

100

This was the short term cause (lit the fuse) of World War 1

Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand 

200

Leading up to WWI, there were 4 MAIN causes involved. Militarism, Imperialism and Nationalism. The last one (A) helped cause the war become a global conflict

Alliances

300

This sinking of the Lusitania, a major cause of the U.S entering the war was a type of controversial strategy used by the Germans

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

400

This group was created after WWI to prevent international conflicts, a group the U.S did not join, causing them not to sign the Treaty of Versailles

League of Nations

500

What year did the United States join WWI?

1917