Westward Expansion & Migration
This was the belief that the United States was destined by God to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This term describes the late 1800s, when the surface looked golden but corruption and inequality hid underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
This is the term for the belief that native-born citizens should be favored over immigrants.
What is nativism?
This is the term for journalism based on sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
What is yellow journalism?
This was the policy of not taking sides in a war.
What is neutrality?
This term refers to African Americans who moved west after the Civil War to escape racial discrimination and find land.
Who were the Exodusters?
This was one major impact of industrialization on the American workforce.
What is the creation of low-paying jobs for unskilled workers?
This 1882 law banned Chinese laborers from entering the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This is the term for the quest for colonial empires.
What is imperialism?
These TWO laws made it illegal to criticize the government or the war during WWI.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This was a push factor that drove many people to leave crowded eastern cities and move west.
What is poverty (or overcrowding) in eastern cities?
These were wealthy industrialists who were seen as greedy and corrupt, OR as heroes who helped the country grow.
Who were the robber barons / captains of industry?
These were crowded, unsanitary apartment buildings where many immigrants lived in cities.
What are tenements?
The United States acquired Hawaii and the Philippines primarily for this reason.
What is to improve the transport of goods to increase global trade?
This telegram, sent from Germany to Mexico, was a major factor in the U.S. entering WWI.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This 1887 law broke up tribal lands and gave individual Native Americans 160 acres to farm, with the goal of destroying communal land ownership.
What is the Dawes Act?
This was the main cause of the trend shown in the table "Percent of American Residents Living in Urban Areas, 1830–1950."
What is the rise of factories and mass production technologies?
This photographer wrote "How the Other Half Lives" to expose the problems of urbanization.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This is the most common belief of Americans who opposed imperialism in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is the desire to avoid overextending military resources and costly conflicts?
These programs (School Garden Army, War Bonds, Self-Rationing) had this impact on the American public.
What is increased national unity and patriotism?
This 1890 event marked the end of armed Native American resistance and symbolized the brutal nature of westward expansion.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This 1892 event at a Carnegie steel plant ended with 10 deaths and the destruction of the union.
What is the Homestead Strike?
These are TWO developments that responded to the conditions shown in the 1901 tenement photograph.
What are the rise of muckrakers and the passage of Progressive Era reforms?
This event, fueled by yellow journalism, pushed the U.S. into the Spanish-American War and led to the acquisition of new territories.
What is the explosion of the USS Maine?
This is why many U.S. Senators rejected the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
What is the fear that the treaty would force the country into global conflicts?