Period 5
A railroad in the U.S. connecting on the U.S. Pacific coast
What is the Trans-Continental Railroad?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
A term often used for racial segregation
What is Jim Crow?
26th president of the United States and was a rough rider for the Spanish American War
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Gave people the opportunity to communicate over long distances in the U.S.
The idea that the United States was destined by God
What is Manifest Destiny?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are called what?
What is the Civil War Amendments?
The belief that only the fittest survive in human, political, and economic struggle
What is Social Darwinism?
A U.S. battleship that exploded and sank in Havana Harbor in 1898; killing more than 200 Americans
What is the USS Maine?
A poet that wrote about African Americans and life
Who is Langston Hughes?
5 separate bills passed by the U.S., it defused political confrontation between slave and free states
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Laws that were passed in different time periods in the southern U.S. to enforce segregation and to end the power of Black voters
What is the Black codes?
Black intellectual who challenged Booker T. Washington's ideas on combating Jim Crow
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
Journalists who exposed the dirt, corruption, and ills of American society
What is Muckrakers?
Cut quotas for foreigners from 3% to 2% of the total number of immigrants
What is Immigration Act of 1924?
The belief that native born Americans are superior to foreigners
What is Nativism?
In the Civil War, a decision stopped the Confederate invasion of Maryland that was named the greatest confederate threats to D.C.
What is Antietam?
The first major labor organization in the U.S., that was to end child labor and had equal pay for men and women
What is Knights of Labor?
Migration of more than 400,000 African Americans from the South moving up North to escape Jim Crow
What is the Great Migration?
The first talkie feature film presented, this was the decline of silent films and increase of talkies
What is "The Jazz Singer"?
A political party founded in northern states in 1854 by anti-slavery activist, modernizers, and ex-whigs
What is the Republican Party?
A U.S. general of the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
A strategy in which companies gain ownership of other related companies in the same industry
What is Horizontal Integration?
Mass fire at a clothing facility in which the workers got locked in and burned to death
What is Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
"New Negro Movement"; started in New York and influenced black writers, musicians, and artists
What is Harlem Renaissance?