Reconstruction Era
This amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States.
A. The 13th Amendment or the 8th Amendment
What is the 13th Amendment?
This innovation, patented by Thomas Edison in 1879, revolutionized the way people lived by providing affordable electric light.
A. Phonograph or B. The incandescent Light Bulb
What is the incandescent light bulb?
This 1913 amendment provided for the direct election of senators by the people, rather than by state legislatures.
A. The 10th Amendment or B. The 17th Amendment
What is the 17th Amendment?
This 1917 law allowed for the conscription of young men into military service during World War I.
A. Selective Service Act or B. Postman Service Act
What is the Selective Service Act?
This 1929 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression, leading to widespread economic hardship.
A. Stock Market Crash of 1929 or B. World War II
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
The period following the Civil War when the federal government worked to rebuild the South and integrate newly freed slaves into society.
A. party time or B. Reconstruction
What is Reconstruction?
This strike by railroad workers in 1877 marked the first major national labor conflict in American history.
A. The Autoworker's Strike or B. The Great Railroad Strike
What is the Great Railroad Strike?
This journalist's exposés on urban poverty and corruption helped spark progressive reforms in the early 20th century.
A. Rachael Carson or B. Jacob Riis?
Who is Jacob Riis?
This plan, proposed by President Woodrow Wilson, outlined a blueprint for a just and lasting peace after World War I.
A. the Fourteen Points or B. The Seventy Points
What is the Fourteen Points?
This president's New Deal programs aimed to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.
A. President Franklin Roosevelt or B. Abraham Lincoln
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This agency was established in 1865 to aid newly freed slaves in their transition to freedom by providing food, housing, and medical aid.
A. Fireman's Bureau or B. Freedmen's Bureau
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This act, passed in 1887, sought to regulate railroad monopolies and ensure fair rates for farmers and consumers.
A. The State Commerce Act or B. Interstate Commerce Act
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This woman's suffrage leader founded the National Woman's Party and was a key advocate for the 19th Amendment.
Who is Alice Paul?
This 1919 event marked a backlash against perceived threats to American values, resulting in the deportation of suspected radicals.
A. The Green Scare or B. The Red Scare
What is the Red Scare?
This 1935 act established a system of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance in the United States.
A. Social Security Act or B. The Social Insecurity Act
What is the Social Security Act?
This doctrine, established by the Supreme Court in 1896, legalized segregation in public facilities as long as they were "separate but equal."
A. separate but equal or B. Together and unequal
What is "separate but equal"?
Named after a state senator, this 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
A. Squidward v. SpongeBob or B. Plessy v Ferguson
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This progressive president's policies included trust-busting, conservation, and consumer protection laws.
A. President McKinley or B. Theodore Roosevelt
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This amendment, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote in the United States.
A. The 19th amendment or B. The 1st Amendment
What is the 19th Amendment?
This 1933 act aimed to stabilize banking by providing federal insurance for bank deposits.
A. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or B. Piggy Banks
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
The compromise of 1877 effectively ended Reconstruction, leading to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the restoration of white Democratic rule.
A. The Compromise of 1877 or B. The Connecticut Compromise
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This 1890 massacre of Native Americans by the US Army marked the end of the Indian Wars and the beginning of assimilation policies.
A. Wounded Knee Massacre or B. Battle of Gettysburg
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This 1914 act sought to strengthen antitrust laws by prohibiting unfair competition and regulating monopolistic practices.
A. The Barton Antitrust Act or B. The Clayton Antitrust Act
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
This 1925 trial centered on the issue of teaching evolution in public schools and highlighted the clash between science and religion in American society.
A. The Scopes MonkeyTrial or B. The Cops Bunny Trial
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
What was the Stock Market Crash of 1929 known as?
A. Black Tuesday or B. Gold Friday
What is Black Tuesday ?