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Gilded Age
Civil War
Progressive Era
Amendments
WWI
100
Period from 1865 to 1900 where entrepreneurs were able to reap huge profits for themselves. It was a period of new innovations, rise of new industries, and production.
What is Gilded Age?
100

The Union's plan to cut off the Confederacy's supplies and strangle them.

Anaconda Plan

100

Muckraker that wrote History of Standard Oil.

Ida B. Wells

100

Gave women the right to vote

19th amendment

100

Regulated the amount of goods that a consumer could obtain to save food for soldiers.

Rationing

200
Inventor of the light bulb. The creation of electricity lead to the rise of machines, streetcars and subway trains.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200

Political Party during Reconstruction that supported rights for Freedmen.

Radical Republicans

200

What was the Muckrakers' goal?

To expose the evils of industrialization and urbanization.

200

The amendment to the U.S. Constitution that put a prohibition on the sale of alcohol.

What is 18th Amendment?

200

President Wilson's foreign policy for the U.S. at the beginning of WW1.

Neutrality

300
Labor union that was created by Samuel Gompers, was a national federation of Different craft unions of skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
300

Name of 2 battles that were turning points in the Civil War for the Union.

Gettysburg and Vicksburg.

300

Movement of religious groups that provided aid for the poor during Urbanization.

Social Gospel Movement

300

Amendment that allows for the direct election of senators?

What is 17th Amendment?

300

A German submarine sank this passenger ship, killing more than 1,000. What is the name of this sink?

What is the Lusitania?

400

First mass for of transportation that was completed in 1869. It made it possible to travel to California.

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

400

Supreme Court case that stated slaves were property and NOT U.S. citizens.

Dred Scott Case

400

He believe African Americans should return to Africa and form their own country.

Marcus Garvey

400

This amendment was created in response to Black Codes and Jim Crow laws in the South.

14th Amendment

400
The U.S. rejected the Treaty of Versailles because we had to join this organization of countries.

The League of Nations.

500

What is the name of the event where labor leaders were blamed when a bomb exploded during the demonstration of striking workers at Square in Chicago.

What is Haymrket Affair?

500

Main Causes of the Civil War

1) Election of Lincoln

2) Sectionalism

3) States Rights

4) Tariffs

5) Slavery

500

Law/agency created as a result of the book, The Jungle.

Pure Food and Drug Act -> Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

500

This Amendment was created as a response to grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and literacy tests.

15th Amendment

500

Consequences for Germany after WW1.

1) War Guilt - Had to pay for war

2) Reduce military

3) Pay reparations

4) Give up territories