Span/Am War
This state of the art ship mysteriously exploded in Havana Harbor, leading the U.S. to blame Spain
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
This war served to jumpstart America's industrialization, being responsible for the creation of many of America's first factories.
What is the American Civil War?
This Island served as the western port for immigrants coming into the United States, much like its sister Ellis Island in New York.
What is Angel Island?
This term refers to the process by which a country/region's city population becomes a larger percentage than its rural population.
What is Urbanization?
This term refers to the action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender. It implies the physical separation of people in everyday activities, in professional life, and in the exercise of civil rights.
What is Segregation?
This new form of journalism took the form of exaggerated headlines, bold fonts, and large pictures to grab readers attentions.
What is yellow journalism?
This new transportation method revolutionized American travel for both people and trade goods, allowing markets to spread across the entire continent.
What are railroads?
This term refers to the things that would lead one to want to move OUT of the country/region they currently live in.
What is a Push Factor?
This term refers to the often times over crowded apartment complexes, that would frequently hold upwards of a dozen people per unit.
What are tenements?
This landmark Supreme Court case originating from Louisiana, culminated in the famous "Separate but Equal" doctrine, which legally allowed for segregation between races in the U.S.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This letter, written by the Spanish Ambassador to the U.S. was filled with inflammatory language that called the United States president weak.
What is the De Lome letter?
This wealthy business magnate is most famous for at one point in history owning at least 90% of the American Oil Industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This region of the United States received almost NO immigration, mostly due to a complete lack of available jobs.
What is The South?
The name for workers on America's first skyscrapers. Beginners were called snakes and veterans were called fixers.
What are Roughnecks?
This early black civil rights leader fought for the immediate pursuit of political rights and challenging racial injustice.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
These islands were gained by the U.S. from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War.
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and The Philippines?
This journalist was often labelled a "muckraker" by his detractors. He is most well known for his work cataloging the horrors of child labor in early 1900's America.
Who is Lewis Hine?
This act declared (in 1882 by the federal government) that no new Chinese immigrants were to be let into the U.S., it would later be repealed in 1943.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This journalist was most for his work exposing the poor living conditions in American slums in the 1900s. His work was collected and published in a book titled "How the Other Half Lives."
Who is Jacob Riis?
This early black civil rights leader believed that Black people should accept racial discrimination and focus on hard work and material prosperity to gain respect from whites, so as to push for equality later.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This unit of volunteer cavalry was formed by future president Theodore Roosevelt, and served in many of the battles on the Cuban mainland.
Who are the Rough Riders?
This tragic workplace accident occurred in Manhattan, when an accidental fire burned down an entire clothes factory, killing the majority of the workers within. Most of whom were teenage girls.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This movement formed in response to the sudden influx of immigrants into America in the 1900's. It fought to only grant jobs to American born workers, and to push back against people who were seen as too "other" from the rest of current U.S. population.
What is the Nativist Movement?
This social movement preached that to achieve true salvation, one must dedicate their lives to service to the poor.
This American civil rights organization was founded in 1909 to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all people and eliminate race-based discrimination.
What is the NAACP?