Westward Expansion
Imperialism
Turn of the 20th C
Immigration/Urbanization
Progressive Era
100
belief that God wanted white American settlers to possess all of North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
when stronger nations attempt to control less developed nations
What is imperialism?
100
1896 Supreme Court case that legalized segregation in the U.S.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
name given to late 19th c. immigrants arriving to America from southern and eastern Europe
What is "new immigrants"?
100
name given to journalists who sought to expose political and economic corruption during the Gilded Age
What is muckraker?
200
late 19th c. political movement led by southern and western American farmers
What is Populism?
200
Secretary of State Seward help negotiate the acquisition of this territory from Russia in 1867
What is Alaska?
200
laws passed by southern state legislatures that sought to marginalize African Americans
What are Jim Crow laws?
200
port of entry for most southern and eastern European immigrants during the late 19th century
What is Ellis Island (NY)?
200
legislation passed by Congress in 1890 that served to break up monopolies
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
300
Native American battle that served as a victory for Sioux/Lakota over U.S. Cavalry
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
300
territories gained by the U.S. following the Spanish American War
What is Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
300
civil rights organization that sought to combat segregation through U.S. court system and interpretation of the 14th amendment.
What is the NAACP?
300
port of entry for most Asian immigrants arriving to the U.S. during the late 19th century
What is Angel Island (SF, CA)?
300
name given to President Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Era programs
What is the Square Deal?
400
Native American battle that brought an end to Native American resistance against the U.S. government
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
400
name given to efforts made by Secretary of State John Hay to establish equal trading rights with China
What is the Open Door Policy?
400
radical women's suffrage movement organization of the late 19th century
What is NAWSA?
400
name given to group of Americans who believed old and new immigrants to be inferior to Americans of white, Anglo-Saxon heritage
What is Nativism?
400
progressive era reformer who established Hull House in Chicago to benefit urban poor and newly arriving immigrants
What is Jane Addams?
500
term used to describe the systematic effort made by the U.S. federal government to deculturize Native Americans and confine them to reservations.
What is assimilation?
500
Respective nicknames for Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson's foreign policies
What is Big Stick Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, and Moral Diplomacy?
500
late 19th century newspaper publishers who encouraged sensational reporting, or yellow journalism
Who are William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer?
500
negotiation between Japan and President Roosevelt to calm growing tension between the two countries over the immigration of Japanese workers.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
500
financial progressive reform passed by Woodrow Wilson that sought to regulate the United States' currency
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
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