History Midterm Progressive Era (Gilded Age and WWI)

3 Reconstruction Amendments

13, 14, 15

The Compromise of ____ ended Reconstruction

1877

Reconstruction Act of 1867 removed authority of Reconstruction from President Johnson and required states to ratify these amendments to rejoin the union

13 and 14

Laws in the South were passed before the Reconstruction Act of 1867. They briefly reduced ex-slaves to an almost slave status, restricting them to plantations and prohibiting them from not having jobs

Black Codes

Government office protected former slaves in the South, enforcing contracts, establishing Black schools, and setting up its own court system

Freemen’s Bureau

Belief that the poor are destined to naturally die off and stay poor, in a curel twist on Charles Darwin’s theory of nature

Social Darwinism

Gilded Age was an era of much labor unrest and massive strikes

1) Great Railroad Strike 1877

2) Pullman Strike 1894

3) Homestead Strike 1890 

This robber baron believed in the “gospel of wealth,” and donated much money to libraries, universities, and to the poor

Andrew Carnegie

Gilded Age president was elected in a contested election in 1877 and agreed to end Reconstruction to be appointed president

Rutherford B. Hayes

Act split up land in Native American reservations with this 1883 law

Dawes Act

Progressive President lost a presidential election after splitting from the Republican Party, forming the “Bull Moose Party.” He was shot on the campaign trail but survived

Theodore Roosevelt

In order to construct a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Roosevelt supported the independence of this country from Colombia

Panama

Spanish-American War led to the US annexing the Philippines. Name one other territory in the US annexed as a result

Puerto Rico or Guam

Theodore Roosevelt’s famed expression: “Speak softly and ____”

Carry a big stick 

Journalists who exposed corruption and inequality such as Upton Sinclair in his book The Jungle 

Muckrakers 

The US President During WWI

Woodrow Wilson

Inciting incident of US involvement in WWI

Zimmerman Telegram

Ship was sunk by the Germans, killing many Americans and agitating the American public

Lusitania

Name of the Austrican archduke whose assassination in Sarajevo caused the outbreak of WWI

Franz Ferdinand

German plan to bypass French forts and invade France through Belgium in WWI

Schleiffen Plan

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s plan to turn the country around during the Great Depression

New Deal

Trial over evolution being taught in a Tennessee school led to the conviction of an instructor teaching evolution as fact

Scopes Monkey Trial 

Republican president before FDP who advocated for a small government

Herbert Hoover

2 Italian men were accused of murder and executed in the 1920s

Sacco and Vanzetti

Name one of the New Deal projects FDR created to help end the Great Depression

CCC, WPA, AAA, TVA