Reconstruction
This amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Completed in 1869, this transportation achievement dramatically connected the Eastern and Western United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Journalists who exposed corruption and societal issues in the early 20th century were given this nickname.
Who are muckrakers?
This doctrine warned European nations against further colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The assassination of this Austro-Hungarian archduke sparked World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This agency, established in 1865, assisted freed slaves with education, health care, and employment.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
He founded Standard Oil and dominated the oil industry during the Gilded Age.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
This policy, established in 1899, called for equal trading rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This message proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico contributed to the U.S. entering the war.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This term refers to Northern Republicans who moved South after the Civil War to participate in Reconstruction.
Who were Carpetbaggers?
This 1887 act was the federal government's first attempt to regulate interstate commerce, particularly railroads.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
She founded Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants and was a key figure in social reform.
Who is Jane Addams?
President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy was described using this African proverb.
What is "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?
This act required American men to register for military conscription during World War I.
What is the Selective Service Act of 1917?
This 1867 act divided the South into five military districts under Union control.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
This 1890 legislation aimed to curb monopolies by prohibiting business practices that restrained trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This amendment established the direct election of U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This amendment, passed by Congress in 1898, promised that the U.S. would not annex Cuba after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Teller Amendment?
Woodrow Wilson's peace proposal to end World War I was outlined in this speech.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This 1877 compromise effectively ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This philosophy justified wealth and inequality by claiming the strongest and most capable succeed in society.
What is Social Darwinism?
This disaster in 1911, which killed 146 garment workers, led directly to reforms in labor laws and workplace safety standards.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
This addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserted the U.S. right to intervene militarily in Latin American countries.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This controversial clause of the Treaty of Versailles required Germany to accept full responsibility for causing World War I.
What is the War Guilt Clause (Article 231)?