Reconstruction
Laws that generally limited the freedoms of African Americans
Black Codes
An area below a ships deck where many immigrants traveled to the US in
steerage
This amendment gave ladies the right to vote
19th
During the 1880's the United States shifted its foreign policy from an isolationists nation to a .....
imperialist nation
The Jungle
Became President after Lincoln was assassinated
Andrew Johnson
These powerful organizations used both legal and illegal methods to get candidates elected (think Boss Tweed)
Political Machines
This amendment allowed the government to tax your income
16th
Teddy Roosevelt added this to the Monroe Doctrine. It said the US should have international police powers.
Roosevelt Corollary
The USS Maine
This Radical Republican was an opponent of Andrew Johnsons, was known to have a sharp tongue, and argued for full equality for African Americans
Thaddeus Stevens
The forced separation of people is called what?
Segregation
The two most popular immigration check points in the United States from 1880-1920
Ellis Island
Angel Island
This author and Naval officer wrote a book on why having a strong Navy was so important?
Alfred T. Mahan
Teddy Roosevelt led this group during the Spanish American War
The Compromise of 1877 essentially ended the Reconstruction Period when it called for the removal of what
Federal Troops in the South
What Southern Democrats called white Southern Republicans because they felt they had betrayed the South
Scalawags
Neighborhood centers in urban areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities
Settlement Houses
In order to build the Panama Canal, the US had to first support the Panamanian government in a fight with which South American country?
Columbia
Upton Sinclairs book helped lead to the passage of this Act that made it a law for the US to have safe meat and place labels on food
The controversial election of 1876 featured these two candidates for president
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Tilden
A Progressive Era journalists nickname
Muckraker
Jacob Riis was a photographer who photographed the horrible conditions that many people lived in in Americas biggest cities. He compiled these photographs in a book called what?
How the Other Half Lives
Open Door Policy
He was assassinated in 1901 (then Teddy Roosevelt became president)
William McKinley