Reconstruction
Hate group formed to prevent freedmen from gaining civil rights
Ku Klux Klan
A reformer who wanted change and wanted to fix the problems caused by industrialization & urbanization during the Gilded Age is known as a:
Muckraker
This compromise brought two new states into the union in 1820, one slave and one free
Missouri Compromise
The Committee on Public Information produced ____________ to convince Americans to support WWI.
What is propaganda
A policy in which a nation exerts their power over a weaker/smaller territory.
What is Imperialism
Laws in southern states designed to prevent Freedmen from gaining equality passed during the Reconstruction era.
What were Black Codes
What is the nickname for businessmen who engaged in unfair business practices and greatly profited during the Gilded Age?
Robber Baron
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
What does the acronym, MAIN, stand for?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
Booker T. Washington and WEB Dubois were activists in which movement?
What is Civil Rights
Government agency that set up schools to educate former slaves and provide job training after the Civil War
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
This individual exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry.
Upton Sinclair
What was President Lincoln’s goal at the beginning of the Civil War?
To reunite the nation - bring the South back.
Which two events drew America into WWI?
Sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram.
This US Supreme Court Case ruled that slaves were not citizens of the US and that Congress had no authority to regulate slavery.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford
This President was impeached during the Reconstruction Era:
Who is Andrew Johnson
This individual used photography to expose difficult living conditions in NYC during the Gilded Age:
Jacob Riis
What is the Compromise of 1850
What was the result of trench warfare during the early years of WWI?
A stalemate
This US Supreme Court Case upheld Jim Crow Laws under the separate but equal clause.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
This event marks the end of the Reconstruction Period in US History:
What is the Compromise of 1877
President Teddy Roosevelt passed what act after reading Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle?
The Meat Inpspection Act
"Four score and seven years ago" is the beginning of what?
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Its sinking increased the USA’s call for war with Spain in Cuba.
This is an exaggerated form of journalism, used during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is Yellow Journalism
Northerners who traveled south to educate freedmen or to profit from Reconstruction were known as _____________ by southerners.
carpetbaggers
This tragic event led to the death of many young garment workers and ushered in demands for workeplace safety
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
This battle marked the "high point" of the Confederacy
Battle of Gettysburg
Of Wilson's 14 Points, this was the one most dear to him and was included in the Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Written by Andrew Carnegie, this essay outlined the philanthropic obligations of a man of wealth.
Gospel of Wealth
In order, the 13th 14th and 15th amendments did the following
13th-ended slavery
14th-extended citizenship to freedmen
15th-granted suffrage to black men
Growing control of an industry by owning all aspects of manufacturing a product is known as
Vertical integration
The 5 "border states" consisted of
Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky, Deleware, West Virginia
Sanford Dole encouraged the US to incorporate the place in order to avoid the American tariff on his sugar
Hawaii
American civil liberties were lessened during WWI through the passage of these two pieces of legislatiuon
Espionage Act and Sedition Act