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Name the system that allowed newly freed slaves to farm but kept them in debt and poverty.
Sharecropping
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Independence
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and these all promoted segregation and allowed blacks to have fewer rights.
Sharecropping
Nineteenth Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Committee of Public Information
In this ruling, the Supreme Court upheld Jim Crow laws by creating the established “Separate but equal” defense.
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Sharecropping
Espionage and Sedition Acts
He founded the Tuskegee Institute.
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. DuBois
Woodrow Wilson
Booker T. Washington
Not only was this person the first African American to earn a PHD at Harvard, he founded the NAACP and helped launch the Niagara movement in the hopes of ending segregation.
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. DuBois
William Howard Taft
Quite the character, this man hoped for segregation from white people for African Americans and tried to encourage them to start their own businesses.
W.E.B. DuBois
Teddy Roosevelt
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
For her part of the women’s movement, she promoted suffrage on a state by state basis.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony and this woman were early suffragettes and didn’t allow men to join their groups.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This amendment would finally give women the right to vote.
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
Equal Rights Amendment
Many Americans were opposed to early attempts at American Imperialism because as a tradition, our values did not support this idea.
Colonialism
Independence
Jim Crow Laws
19th Amendment
Americans went to war against Spain for many reasons, including yellow journalism that promoted the war, the need to protect our investments in Cuba, and the explosion of this battleship.
Teddy Roosevelt
Spanish American War
Espionage and Sedition Acts
U.S.S. Maine
During this war, yellow fever killed more Americans than anything else.
Civil War
Spanish American War
World War I
As part of the treaty that ended the Spanish American War, Cuba and the Philippines were given this, despite resisting American rule and being made a territory of the US.
Independence
Colonialism
Sharecropping
He was the president that wanted an association of nations, even before World War I.
Teddy Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
W.E.B. DuBois
He would have said this as president: "Today, more than ever before, American capital is seeking investment in foreign countries, and American products are more and more generally seeking foreign markets."
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
Booker T. Washington
William Howard Taft
This feisty president not only oversaw the creation of the Panama Canal, he also justified US interventions in Latin American through his own “Corollary”; an update to the Monroe Doctrine.
Marcus Garvey
William Howard Taft
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
He wanted American influence to promote peace, freedom and democracy throughout the world.
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
This was one of the final actions that would catapult the Americans into World War I.
Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare
U.S.S Maine
Jim Crow Laws
For the most part, the United States kept out of World War I for a long time as we practiced our policy of ____________.
Colonialism
Isolationism
Independence
Espionage and Sedition Acts
The result of the US entry into World War I, would see the tide of the war change and this country’s defeat: ______________.
Germany
Spain
Japan
Serbia
African Americans and _______________ would step in to fill the void left in America’s factories and helped manufacture the war materials needed to win the war.
Women
Booker T. Washington
Selective Service Act
This government department was in charge of creating propaganda in order to encourage Americans to support the war efforts.
Railroad Administration
Selective Service Act
Committee of Public Information
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Part of the American growth in government departments and spending, was the Food Administration, the War Industries Board, and this which was meant to control the transportation of goods and services across country.
Committee of Public Information
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Railroad Administration
Selective Service Act
The draft that was a required enlistment.
Selective Service Act
Committee of Public Information
Espionage and Sedition Acts
The passage of these pretty much put down any efforts Americans may have wanted to put forth in disagreeing with the War.
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Selective Service Act
Jim Crow Laws
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