Reconstruction & Gilded Age
This Constitutional amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Journalists who exposed social, political, and economic problems in the early 1900s earned this nickname.
What are muckrakers?
Prohibition led to increased organized crime after this amendment banned alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The U.S. foreign policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This activist delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Southern laws designed to restrict the freedoms of African Americans during Reconstruction.
What were Black Codes?
The Spanish-American War resulted in the U.S. gaining these two territories.
What are Puerto Rico and the Philippines?
One of the main causes of the Great Depression was the failure of these institutions—leading to loss of savings.
What are banks?
This massive U.S. aid program rebuilt Western Europe after WWII to prevent communist influence.
What was the Marshall Plan?
Students used this method during the Civil Rights Movement to peacefully challenge segregated lunch counters.
What are sit-ins?
This 1896 Supreme Court case legalized segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The 19th Amendment, passed in 1920, granted this group the right to vote.
Who are women?
This New Deal program provided jobs building national parks, trails, and conservation projects.
What was the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
Senator Joseph McCarthy became famous for leading this anti-communist campaign.
What is McCarthyism?
The U.S. entered the Vietnam War primarily to stop this from spreading.
What is communism?
Rapid industrial growth in the late 1800s was often fueled by business leaders like Rockefeller and Carnegie, who critics called this term.
What are robber barons?
President Wilson’s peace plan after WWI called for self-determination and a League of Nations.
What were the Fourteen Points?
The surprise Japanese attack on this U.S. naval base led to American entry into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared segregated schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1965 law ended literacy tests and gave federal protection to Black voters in the South.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Farmers created this political movement to fight railroad rates, unfair lending, and the gold standard.
What was the Populist Movement?
This act, passed during WWI, made it illegal to speak against the war effort or the U.S. government.
What is the Espionage Act?
The U.S. strategy of capturing strategic Pacific islands on the way to Japan was known as this.
What is island hopping?
The U.S. space program gained momentum after this Soviet satellite became the first object launched into orbit
What is Sputnik?
The 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide.
What is Roe v. Wade?