Reconstruction and Moving West
This was the southern states attempt to preserve the structure of Southern society during Presidential Reconstruction.
What are Black Codes?
This inventor patented a series of inventions for trains and street cars, including a multiplex telegraph that could send signals between stations and moving trains.
Who is Granville T. Woods
This style of newspaper reporting emphasized sensationalism over facts and contributed to America entering the Spanish-American War.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This sinking of this ship stirred up anti-German feelings and a desire for revenge within America.
What is the Lusitania?
At this event, nations agreed to the world's first partial disarmament and the 5:5:3 rule for battleships.
What is the Washington Naval Conference?
This amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This pair of inventors created the first airplane.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
This ship exploded in Havana Harbor, February 15, 1898. It was a factor in the start of the Spanish-American War.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
A German technology that allowed "surprise" attacks on ships traveling in the water.
What is the U-boat?
These two marketing practices helped give rise to consumerism in America during the 1920s.
What are advertising and credit (installment purchasing)?
This Amendment prohibited slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Who is Lewis Howard Latimer?
Manifest Destiny, new technology, the need for raw materials, and competition with European powers were all reasons given in favor of this.
What is American Imperialism?
National self-determination, the reunification of Poland, freedom of the seas, equal trade terms, reduced armaments, an end to secret alliances, and the creation of an international peace-keeping organization were all goals of this proposal to end World War I.
What is Wilson's 14 points?
These two Italian immigrants were thought to be anarchists and were convicted of murder in 1920. This is one of the most controversial trials in U.S. history due to the extreme bias shown by the judge and the jury in the case.
Who are Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?
Plots of land set aside by the federal government for the Indians to relocate on.
What are reservations?
This inventor obtained several patents for lubricators for steam engines.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
What is the Panama Canal?
This clause in the Treaty of Versailles called for Germany to pay huge reparations to the Allied nations.
What is the "War Guilt" clause?
What is the 18th Amendment?
Places that American Indian children were sent to in an attempt to assimilate, or "Americanize," them.
What are boarding schools?
This inventor wanted to help those living in cramped city apartments by inventing the cabinet bed.
Who is Sarah E. Goode
The United States gained its first three territories, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines at the end of this conflict.
What is the Spanish American War?
This event led to Russia ending their role in World War I, which also helped America decide to become involved in the war.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?