Reconstruction
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Ended slavery
What was Manifest Destiny?
Supports westward expansion settling coast to coast Atlantic to Pacific.
What was the purpose of Eilis Island?
To process immigrants located in NY
Name the underlying causes of WW !.
Militarism
Alliance
Imperialism
Nationalism
Define Imperialism
stronger more advanced nations take over weaker less advanced nations
What is segregation?
The separation of the races
How did the Homestead Act help settle the western frontier Great Plains Area?
Gave land away to settlers who remain for 5 years
How did policies like the Chinese Exclusion Act & the National Origins Act restrict immigration?
Quotas restrictive immigration did not allow certain groups to come in the US
How did Germany keep supplies from reaching Britain?
Unrestricted submarine warfare
What caused the Spanish American war?
Yellow Journalism- shocking and sometimes untrue reporting inaccurate and sensational news reporting
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
The strict southern laws that separated the races
Who were the Homesteaders?
Farmers who took advantage of the Homestead act and lived in Great Plains in sod houses west of the Mississippi
Why did the immigrants face discrimination?
Different customs, cultures, language, religion
What was the name of the British passenger ship sunk by German sub?
Lusitania
What was Dollar Diplomacy?
the use of the US Military to take care of problems in Latin America
Why was the Plessy v Ferguson case so important?
Supreme Court case that said separate but equal was legal
Who were the muckrakers?
Bonus:Who was Upton Sinclair?
Those who exposed social problems, corruption in gov't and business
Muckraker who wrote about the meat packing industry, The Jungle
What was stated in the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany blamed for the war
-Must pay reparations
-no military
-stripped of colonies
-must join the League of Nations
Why was the Panama Canal built?
To reduce the sailing time between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is a sharecropper?
After the Civil War many former slaves rented land to farm and paid rent in cash and crops
What was the Great Migration?
Many African Americans left the rural south for job opportunities in northern cities
What international organization was set up to prevent wars and work out world problems?
The League of Nations