Reconstruction & Late 1800s
This president who came after Lincoln was almost impeached (narrowly avoided by ONE vote)
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Emma Lazarus wrote this work about Ellis island immigration: specifically, the statue of Liberty that 17 million immigrants saw when coming in to Ellis Island.
What is the New Colossus?
What is the Spanish American War?
What was FDR's policy to combat the depression?
The New Deal
Who is Eisenhower?
These were restrictions on black Americans’ basic rights: A way to continue slavery/racial injustice in a roundabout way to continue slavery/extreme discrimination.
What are the Black Codes? (Later Jim Crow Laws)
This is the muckraker who fought against lynching and racism?
Who is Ida B wells ?
What was Oct 29th 1929?
Black Tuesday-Stock Market Crash
Who was FDR's VP who ended the war?
Truman
This man called the Soviet Union an evil empire.
Who is Reagan?
This Bureau aided 4 million newly freed African Americans.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
There was a rise in fundamentalism vs. rationalism at this time as seen in this trial.
What is the Scopes trial?
What are the MAIN causes of WWI?
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
This type of government occurred under Mussolini in Italy.
What is Fascism?
JFK had a struggle with Fidel Castro during this crisis.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
These were the 3 goals of Reconstruction.
1) Bring the South back into the Union (politically participating)
2) Guarantee Rights to Former Slaves
Education, Political Rights: Voting and Elected Officials, Social Reform in Terms of Race
3) Rebuild & establish new infrastructure (transportation and communication)
Who had the following policy: Big Stick Foreign Policy?
Teddy Roosevelt
What was the case involving 2 italian anarchists whose trial polarized the nation?
Sacco & Vanzetti
When was DDay?
June 6 1944
What are the 2 asian wars over communism we fought in the later 1900s?
The Korean War & the Vietnam War
What were the 3 Civil Rights amendments passed at this period? (define what they each did)
13th: Abolished slavery
14th: Equal protection under the law
15th: Black males can vote
Who is the Titan of Industry for railroads?
Who is the Titan of Industry for… Oil? (Standard Oil)
Who is the Titan of Industry for…Steel
Vanderbilt
Rockefeller
Carnegie
What are 3 struggles of Trench warfare?
Trench rats, trench foot, shellshock, disease
When did the US join the war? What was FDR's famous phrase on this day?
Pearl Harbor
Dec 7 1941
a day which will live in infamy
What landmark legislation did LBJ pass for civil rights and what his domestic policy called?
Civil Rights Act of 1964 & The Great Society