Reconstruction
Westward
Turn of the Century
Wars
Great Depression
Cold War
The 60's and beyond
100
The main goal of this subversive group was to suppress the newly acquired rights of black people.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
Nickname given to Black settlers who moved to the great plains after the American Civil War
Who are the Exodusters?
100
This term means the right to vote
What is suffrage?
100
The outcome of the U.S. participation in this war resulted in the addition of overseas territories to gain raw materials and expand trade.
What is the Spanish American War?
100
The name given to the temporary settlement communities / homeless camps during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
100
The Cold War was mainly a non-military struggle for world-wide economic and political influence and control between these two countries.
Who are the United States and Soviet Union?
100
The US is involved in this part of the world because of this region's reserves of oil and the US economic dependence on oil.
What is the Middle East?
200
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and required that laws be applied equally to all citizens
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This law was intended to make the Native American Indian population to live and act more like the white majority culture of the United States (assimilation).
What is the Dawes Act?
200
Name one of the two main immigration stations for arriving immigrants at the turn of the 19th century.
What are Ellis Island and Angel Island?
200
This was the first Cold War conflict over the spread of communism and resulted in the country being divided with a guarded barrier between the North and South.
What was the Korean War?
200
This event ended the high unemployment which was the primary symptom of the Great Depression.
What was WWII?
200
This was the main U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War.
What is containment?
200
These 2 events / movements during the 1950s-1970s were the cause of wide-spread protests/marches/rallies across the United States.
What is the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War?
300
This federal agency was established to help former slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and some protection from hostile environments in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
This not only provided a means of travel to the West, but also allowed cash crops (corn, wheat), cattle, and hogs to be transported to processing centers which helped major industries such as flour milling and meat processing develop in cities like Chicago.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
300
This is the nickname given to a group of journalists like Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens who criticized big corporations, harsh living and working conditions of the poor, and corrupt politicians.
Who are the Muckrakers?
300
Peace document that brought an end to World War I and heavily punished Germany for their actions as the aggressor.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
300
The Dust Bowl mainly affected this group of people located in this region of the U.S.
Who are farmers on the Great Plains?
300
This event was the closest the United States and the Soviet Union actually came to fighting each other during the Cold War.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
In 1964, Congress passed this, which prohibited segregation in public places, provided for the integration of schools, and made employment discrimination illegal.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
400
Set of laws passed during the end of the Reconstruction period which segregated and discriminated against Black Southerners.
What are Jim Crow laws?
400
The West became more developed as the government provided free land to settlers through this Act.
What was the Homestead Act??
400
President Theodore Roosevelt was given this nickname because he use the government's power to attack and limit the power of trusts (big corporations / monopolies).
What is the Trustbuster?
400
In order to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific during WWII, the United States used this military strategy.
What is island hopping?
400
This outlawed the production and distribution of alcohol and was intended to control the immigrant population, but was repealed in the early 1930s.
What was Prohibition?
400
In order to carry out the policy of containment, the US assisted in the rebuilding of Europe after WWII by giving over $12 billion in economic assistance through this plan.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
This program under President Lyndon B Johnson declared war on poverty, started Medicare and Medicaid, and provided more educational opportunities for needy Americans
What is the Great Society
500
Supreme Court case which legalized the segregation of the races and established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500
This battle marked the end of Native American resistance to the reservation policy in the West at the end of the 1800s.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
500
This Era in American history saw changes such as the start of Prohibition, Women's suffrage, and the Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
What is the Progressive Era?
500
This was the turning point in the Vietnam War. It was a strategic victory for the U.S., but a defeat for moral.
What is the Tet Offensive
500
U.S. President who introduced a wide range of programs, called the New Deal, which focused on three goals: relief, recovery, and reform.
Who is President Franklin Roosevelt?
500
Which U.S. President is given credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and winning the Cold War?
Who is Ronald Reagan?
500
This scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon
What is Watergate?