A House Divided
This pre-Civil War doctrine allowed the people living in a territory to decide by vote whether or not to permit slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This term describes the movement of people to towns and cities, leading to the growth of urban areas.
What is Urbanization?
This policy involves a nation extending its authority over other nations through territorial acquisition or economic dominance.
What is Imperialism?
These are conditions in a migrant’s home country, such as poverty or war, that make it difficult or impossible to live there.
What are Push factors?
This was the nickname given to writers and journalists who "dug up the bad things" and exposed corruption in society.
What are Muckrakers?
This was Abraham Lincoln’s primary goal throughout the duration of the Civil War.
What is preserving the Union?
This 19th-century belief held that it was the right and duty of Americans to control all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Although later investigations suggested an internal malfunction, the sinking of this battleship in Havana Harbor was blamed on Spain by "Yellow Journalists," serving as the main catalyst for the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
This term refers to the process by which people give up their heritage and language to fit into a new cultural group.
What is Assimilation?
This "muckraking" journalist and photographer published the 1890 book How the Other Half Lives, using powerful imagery to expose the cramped and dangerous living conditions of New York City’s poor.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision central point was that enslaved people had no rights as citizens anywhere in the United States.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This Eli Whitney invention revolutionized the textile industry by speeding up the processing of raw fibers.
What is the cotton gin?
These were the four territories the United States gained as a direct result of the Spanish-American War.
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba?
These multi-family urban dwellings were often overcrowded, poorly ventilated, and lacked indoor plumbing. In the late 1800s, they became the primary housing option for the wave of immigrants arriving in New York City.
What are tenements?
Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle led directly to the passage of this law regarding food safety.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This Constitutional Amendment, ratified in 1868, defined citizenship and extended it to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This act was passed by Congress specifically to make monopolies and trusts illegal.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Although it eventually proved to be a bargain rich in gold and oil, the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia was initially mocked by critics and given this two-word nickname.
What is Seward’s Folly?
This policy or belief, which favored the interests of native-born inhabitants over those of immigrants, is known as what?
What is nativism?
This is the spread of ideas used to help a cause or hurt an opposing cause, often used during times of war.
What is propaganda?
Under the Missouri Compromise, this specific requirement had to be met every time a slave state was admitted to the Union.
What is a free state had to be admitted as well? (To maintain balance).
During the Civil War, this technological advancement provided fresh supplies of arms, men, and medical equipment directly to army camps.
What is the Railroad?
After fighting alongside Americans against the Spanish, many Filipinos were outraged when the United States did not grant them immediate independence, leading to a bloody three-year conflict known by this name.
What is the Philippine-American War?
This deliberate act is marked by the desire to keep one’s heritage alive for future generations.
What is cultural preservation?
This term describes the act of making amends or paying for a wrongdoing or injury, often discussed after wars.
What is reparation?