Unit 5
The belief that the United States was destined by God to spread its “empire of liberty” across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Five slave states — Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia — that did not secede during the Civil War.
What is Border States?
A battle between the U.S. Army and the Dakota Sioux, in which two hundred Native Americans and twenty-nine U.S. soldiers died.
What is Wounded Knee?
Organized by Theodore Roosevelt, this was a colorful, motley regiment of Cuban war volunteers consisting of western cowboys, ex-convicts, and effete Ivy Leaguers.
Who are the Rough Riders?
An American aviator who made history as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Inflow of thousands of miners to northern California after news reports of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in January of 1848.
What is the California Gold Rush?
Declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free but did not affect slavery in nonrebelling Border States.
What is the Emancipation
Proclamation?
A tycoon who came to dominate the steel industry. His company, later named United States Steel, was the biggest corporation in U.S. history in 1901.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Well-educated Filipino leader who first fought against Spain and later led the Philippine insurgency against U.S. colonial rule.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
A creative outpouring among African American writers, jazz musicians, and social thinkers, centered around Harlem in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem
Renaissance?
Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Created to aid newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support.
What is the Freedmen's bureau?
The second national labor organization. Known for their efforts to organize all workers, regardless of skill level, gender, or race.
What is Knights of Labor?
Wrote exposés of widespread corruption in American society. Subjects included business manipulation of government, white slavers, child labor, and the illegal deeds of the trusts and helped spur the passage of reform legislation.
Who are Muckrakers?
A court case that took place during the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, over the issue of whether evolution could be taught in public schools.
What is Scopes Monkey
Trial?
Antislavery party in the 1848 and 1852 elections that opposed the extension of slavery into the territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
An agricultural system that emerged after the Civil War in which black and white farmers rented land and residences from a plantation owner in exchange for giving him a certain “share” of each year’s crop.
What is Share Cropping?
A reform movement led by Protestant ministers who used religious doctrine to demand better housing and living conditions for the urban poor.
What is the Social Gospel?
A ferocious blaze broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City, resulting in 146 worker deaths. Sparked widespread outrage and inspired legislation to improve workplace safety.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist
Fire?
Nickname for the Great Plains region devastated by drought and dust storms during the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Federal arsenal in Virginia seized by abolitionist John Brown in 1859.
What is Harpers Ferry?
Laws passed throughout the South to restrict the rights of emancipated blacks.
What is Black codes?
Popular uprising of whiskey distillers in southwestern Pennsylvania in opposition to an excise tax on whiskey.
What is the Whiskey Ring?
A period of intense anticommunism.
What is the Red Scare?
Specialists in law, economics, and welfare.
What is Brain Trust?