Reconstruction Era
This president took over after Lincoln’s assassination.
Andrew Johnson
The belief that Americans were destined to expand westward.
Manifest Destiny
Business who has complete control over an industry and its production.
Monopoly
What does YMCA stand for?
Young Mens Christian Association
A policy in which a stronger nation works to build an empire.
Imperialism
The agency created to help freed slaves with food, education, and jobs.
Freedman's Bureau
This law gave settlers 160 acres of land to families who would live on and cultivate the land for at least 5 years.
Homestead Act
Which invention from the Gilded Age caused the upward expansion of cities and made the ‘mega city’ possible?
Steel
Journalists who exposed corruption were called _____.
Muckrakers
This explosion pushed the U.S. toward war with Spain in 1898.
USS Maine
This railroad connected the East and West coasts.
Transcontinental Railroad
Which invention, used by Henry Ford in his factories, helped factories produce products faster and cheaper?
Assembly line
This book exposed meatpacking conditions.
The Jungle
Connected the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
Panama Canal
Native americans were expected to give up their culture and traditions in exchange for white culture in the policy known as
Assimilation
This act aimed to break up monopolies but was too weak. President Teddy Roosevelt strengthened it giving it more power.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Deal Roosevelt offered the American people
Square Deal
This policy opened China to trade.
This event marked the symbolic end of Native resistance after the death of sitting bull
Wounded Knee
What innovation, or new way of making steel, caused the availability of steel to rise along with the cost of it to go down?
Bessemer Process
Absence of government regulation in the marketplace
Laissez Faire
White culture had the duty or responsibility to civilize the uncivilized parts of the uncivilized world.
White Mans Burden