Reconstruction
Which group used violence to terrorize African Americans and their White allies?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Instead of going to school, this group of people would work long hours in unsafe factories.
Children
What was the number one way that a child immigrant could assimilate into America culture?
Learn English in school
Which part of the United States voted in support of Women's Suffrage first:
Western States, Eastern States, or Southern States?
Western States
One of Ainley’s favorite fall activities involves this cozy beverage often enjoyed during chilly autumn days.
Chai Latte
What was the goal of Reconstruction?
To unify Northern & Southern United States into one country
This innovation help speed up the transportation of raw materials and people into cities, leading to an increase in factories and industry.
Railroad
This group of people saw immigrants as a threat to traditional American society.
Nativists
These journalists had the goal of exposing social injustices and political corruption.
Muckrakers
This is Ainley's favorite coffee shop in town.
Mission Coffee
This system led to African Americans becoming even more in debt to White landowners, and kept them from becoming financial independent.
Sharecropping
These people used unfair monopolies to control businesses and underpaid their workers. Also, give an actual real example of one of these people.
Robber Barons: Carnegie or Rockefeller
This allowed immigrants the ability to continue practicing their cultural traditions and languages.
Living in ethnic neighborhoods
Expanding a nation’s influence through control of other territories. Either physical control, financial control, military control, etc.
Imperialism
Ainley’s favorite place to buy fall treats...we need one in Visalia!
Trader Joe's
This group provided schools, social reforms, job opportunities, etc. to former slaves, but lacked the resources to fully support.
Freedmen's Bureau
Harsh working conditions and low wages led to workers forming THESE to organize for better rights.
Labor Unions
These people offered favors like jobs, housing, education, etc. to immigrants in exchange for votes.
Political Machines
This author was a muckraker who brought awareness to the unsanitary conditons in the meatpacking industry.
Name the AUTHOR and NOVEL!
Upton Sinclair and The Jungle
Ainley's favorite fall fashion piece.
Oversized flannel (200 points if just flannel)
This event led to the end of Reconstruction by withdrawing Northern troops from the South, allowing for racial discrimination in the South.
Compromise of 1877
How did monopolies impact small businesses?
They limited competition and destroyed small businesses.
What was the goal of the Americanization Movement?
Assimilate into American society through education
Teddy Roosevelt maintained a strong US military in THIS AREA to keep European powers away from the Western hemisphere.
Latin America
(Panama - 250 points)
Ainley’s favorite fall/winter movie to watch for seasonal inspiration is this.
Harry Potter