Reconstruction
How did Abraham Lincoln’s assassination impact Reconstruction plans?
What is it led to a more lenient approach under Andrew Johnson and conflict with Congress?
What are large companies that control entire industries and limit competition?
What are monopolies and trusts?
What kinds of problems did Progressives try to fix?
What are poverty, child labor, corruption, and unsafe working conditions?
What law gave 160 acres of free land to settlers who agreed to live and farm on it for five years?
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
What U.S. foreign policy promoted open trade in China for all nations?
What is the Open Door Policy?
What were the main goals of Reconstruction?
What are to restore Southern states to the Union, rebuild the economy, and protect African American rights?
What law was passed to limit monopolies, though weakly enforced at first?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
What are journalists who exposed corruption and social problems to inspire reform?
What were muckrakers, and what was their role in the Progressive Era?
What major railroad connected the East and West coasts of the U.S. in 1869?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What U.S. ship exploded in Havana Harbor, pushing the U.S. toward war with Spain?
What is the USS Maine?
What amendment granted African American men the right to vote?
What is the 15th Amendment?
What was a major effect of rapid urbanization in cities?
What is overcrowding, poor sanitation, and rise of tenement housing?
What was the goal of the temperance movement?
What is to ban or limit the use of alcohol?
Who built much of the transcontinental railroad under difficult conditions?
Who are Chinese and Irish immigrants?
What does the acronym M.A.I.N. stand for when discussing the causes of WWI?
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
How did Southern states try to stop African Americans from voting after Reconstruction?
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?
How did political machines gain support from immigrants?
What is by providing jobs, food, and housing in exchange for votes?
How did Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal reflect Progressive goals?
What is it aimed to protect consumers, regulate big business, and conserve natural resources?
What law broke up tribal lands and gave individual plots to Native American families?
What is the Dawes Act of 1887?
What was the name of the movement of African Americans to northern cities during WWI?
What is the Great Migration?
How did the Compromise of 1877 impact African Americans in the South?
What is it left them unprotected, leading to the rise of Jim Crow laws?
What is the belief that only the strongest businesses or people succeed in society?
What is Social Darwinism?
What was the goal of the 19th Amendment?
What is to give women the right to vote?
What kind of schools were created to assimilate Native American children?
What are boarding schools?
What international peace organization did Wilson support, but the U.S. never joined?
What is the League of Nations?