People
The President that gave the Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
A widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
Manifest Destiny
Sherman's March to the Sea utilized this total war method.
Scorched Earth/Total War
These groups aided immigrants for political purposes.
Government economic policy during the Gilded Age
Laisseze Faire
The President who achieved Manifest Destiny
James K. Polk
Why was Texas not allowed to join America after fighting for independence from Mexico?
It wished to be a slave state, would upset balance.
Conflict over slavery focused primarily on its legality in this area
New territories.
Various laws in southern states that reinforced Black economic subjugation to their former slaveowners.
Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws
Explain the difference between vertical integration and horizontal integration business activities.
Vertical integration- buying out the means of production.
Horizontal integration- buying out the competition.
Lakota leader who led his people in a resistance movement against US expansion. Killed by federal officers.
Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse
This act allowed anyone to receive land in the west as long as they could pay a $10 filing fee
The Homestead Act
Name three disadvantages the Confederacy had during the Civil War.
North had...
more factories
more people
a better navy
a better railroad system
more money
Landmark court case that declared segregation was legal as long as facilities were 'separate but equal'.
Plessy v. Ferguson
An example of the justification of wealth created by a small group of people despite the majority of people living in poverty.
Gospel of Wealth or Social Darwinism
Leader of Tammany Hall
William Boss Tweed
California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming were territories gifted to the United States in this treaty after the Mexican American War.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This piece of legislation proved that popular sovereignty was not the way to answer the slavery question.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What factors gave rise to the Populist Party (People's Party).
Farmers were stuck in a cycle of debt. They blamed the railroad companies, banking industry, and the money policy. They wanted to advocate for change.
The first major labor union in the United States.
Knights of Labor
The man who coined the term Manifest Destiny
John O'Sullivan
The promise of the Dawes Severalty Act
This act promised Native Americans land and citizenship if they gave up their traditional communal living.
This statement from Abraham Lincoln gave new purpose to the war.
Emancipation Proclamation
Purpose of the Pendleton Civil Service Act:
This act ended the Spoils System. The act mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage.
An example of a conflict between labor and management that took place at Andrew Carnegie's Steel Plant.
What is the Homestead Strike