Indigenous Genocide
The 1890 massacre linked with the suppression of the Ghost Dance movement
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre
The belief in the divine right to expand the US across the continent from ocean to ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The term for Gilded Age billionaires that gained their wealth through unethical business practices
What is a "robber-baron?"
The type of journalists that would expose corruption and social injustice
What is a muckraker?
The battleship that mysteriously exploded off the coast of Cuba, sending the US into the Spanish-American War
What is the USS Maine?
The US state that was promised as a permanent Native American Reservation until the discovery of oil in it.
What is Oklahoma?
The over 2,000 mile long road from the Mississippi to the Pacific coast that settlers and homesteaders would take.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The economic policy that favors little to no government regulation to encourage market growth. (I will accept both French and English)
What is Laissez Faire or the Free Market?
The constitutional amendment that granted women's suffrage (right to vote)
What is the 19th Amendment?
The policy declaration made by a US president opposing European colonization in Latin America
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The forced 2,200 mile march and relocation of the Cherokee people from their homeland to reservations in Oklahoma
What is the Trail of Tears?
The 1862 federal law opened 500 million acres to settlers, offering 160 acres per adult male for $1.25
What is the Homestead Act
What workers of color would form as an alternative because they were disallowed from unions
What are Black Brotherhoods?
Type of laws created to prevent monopolies
What are antitrust laws?
Political philosophy claiming westerners had the divine right to civilize and christianize the world
What is the "white man's burden?"
The 1864 massacre where a militia attacked a village of men, women, and children in Colorado despite negotiated relocation to a reservation.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre
The US law passed in 1882 that banned all Chinese immigration for 10 years
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The Gilded Age steel making process that sped up industrial production
What is Bessemer Steel?
A union of unions. Where trade unions allied together and commanded greater power over industry
What is the American Federation of Labor?
The island territory granted to the US as part of Spain's surrender in the Paris Treaty
What is Puerto Rico OR Guam?
One of the Indigenous war chiefs at the Battle of Little Big Horn
Who is Geronimo or Crazy Horse
The federal law/funding program paid private companies to build a transcontinental rail line and telegraph across the U.S.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act (1862)?
The process by which a business buys out all it's competitors within an industry
What is horizontal intigration?
The government agency created in 1913 to regulate unfair business practices
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
The US purchased these islands for $20 million after the Spanish surrendered in the Spanish-American War
What are the Philippines?