Civil War and Reconstruction
Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River
Speech given by Bryan which advocated free coinage of silver and inflationary economic policy
Theodore Roosevelt's policy of creating and using, when necessary, a strong military to achieve America's goals
Young women from the 1920s who defied traditional ruled of conduct and dress
The day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war.
Congressmen who advocated full citizenship rights for African Americans along with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the South
The belief held by some in the late nineteenth century that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over them
List of terms for resolving World War I and future wars outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson
A period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz
President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements
1870 Constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude
A political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.
Fought in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence
Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
Contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons
Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction
An American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, first based in Ohio. He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of what became the Florida East Coast Railway.
British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boat during World War I
An ethnic cleansing and mass deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans from the United States between 1929 and 1936
1962 conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba
System in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter's land in return for a share of the crop
1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
Sending troops home and re-entering them into the work force.
An attempt in 1924 to solve the World War I reparations problem that Germany had to pay, which had bedevilled international politics following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles.
Eased the return of World War II veterans by providing education and employment aid