Reconstruction
Imperialism
Progressive Era
Key Dates/Years
WWI
100
Northerners moved to the South during Reconstruction to make money
What are Carpetbaggers
100
Strong country takes over weak, the stronger country does this by using their military and political influence
What is Imperialism
100
Founder of Hull House (settlement house) to help immigrant women and children
Who is Jane Addams
100
Stock Market Crashed
What is 1929
100
4 causes of WWI . . . think "MAIN"
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
200
Congressional group who took a harsher stance, wanting the government to force change in the South; fought for protection of Freedmen
Who were Radical Republicans
200
exaggerated/tabloid like journalism used during Spanish-American War
What is Yellow Journalism
200
Journalists who exposed scandal, corruption, injustices
What are Muckrakers
200
Lasted 1914 to 1915
What is WWI
200
Spark was his assassination (leader of Austria-Hungary)
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand
300
Amendment that abolished slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment
300
Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown by American farmers to gain this territory
What is Hawaii
300
Theodore Roosevelt's Reform Plan to balance the needs of all in society, break up bad trusts, protect consumer health, conserve the U.S. natural environment
What is Square Deal
300
Sputnik/Soviet satellite launched
What is 1957
300
Note from Germany to Mexico wanting them to attack the U.S.
What is Zimmerman Telegram
400
system of providing labor to land-owners and sharing their crops with them
what is sharecropping
400
Formal suggestion by Secretary of State Hays to have free trade in China
What is the Open Door Policy
400
Direct election of Senators (gave people more power to elect their officials)
What is Seventeenth Amendment
400
U.S. becomes world power by acquiring Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines
What is 1898
400
Act used to draft men for military
What is Selective Service Act
500
Amendment that granted voting rights to African American men
What is the Fifteenth Amendment
500
U.S./Teddy Roosevelt's policy of using the military might of the U.S. to intervene in foreign conflicts if necessary . . . "Speak Softly"
What is Big Stick
500
This book by Upton Sinclair helped to pass the Meat inspection act by exposing the unsanitary meat industry.
What is the Jungle
500
U.S. lands on Moon
What is 1969
500
US President during WWI
Who was Woodrow Wilson