CHAPTER 1
As a result of the Columbian Exchange, Europeans began growing what 2 crops
Maize & Potatoes
Which of the following best characterizes the nature of the difference between northern and southern states in the late 1700s and early 1800s?
economy
The Interstate Commerce Commission was created to oversee __________ operations.
railroad
In which way did Jacob Riis work for social reform?
In which way did Jacob Riis work for social reform?
The completion of the Panama Canal depended on
scientific breakthroughs in the treatment of tropical diseases.
Following the French and Indian Wars, the British Parliament needed money to
Pay War Debt
What was a major effect of the 1858 Illinois senatorial debates?
Which item did the Chinese Exclusion Act enforce?
Immigration from China was banned for a 10-year period.
What came about as a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in NYC
Safer working conditions
Why did Emilio Aguinaldo lead an insurrection against the United States?
Aguinaldo disliked that the United States maintained possession of the Philippines following the Spanish-American War.
Spanish invaders that conquered South and Central America
Conquistadors
For what did the Second Great Awakening encourage people to work?
African American voting rights
Which of the following was a reason for rapid industrial expansion in the United States?
Abundance of Raw materials
“goods produced under fair, safe, and healthy conditions"
National Consumer League
Who did the US buy the Philippines from?
Spain
Democratic-Republicans favored what country?
France
What act forced southern Native American tribes to relocate to Indian territory
Indian Removal Act
The term used to describe industrialists who built their fortunes by paying low wages.
Robber barons
Progressives favored the policy of __________ meaning they tried to make everyone follow white, middle-class ways of life.
Americanization
What did Secretary of State William Seward purchase in 1867
Alaska
The power for the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality on the acts by Congress or the President
Judicial Review
In the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was admitted as a_____
slave state
Landowners dictated the crop and provided the farmer a place to live
Sharecropping
16th Amendment
Graduated income tax
President Howard Taft's diplomacy is Latin America
Dollar Diplomacy