Unit 5
This group advocated for the end of slavery in the US
What is abolitionists?
This amendment, passed in 1865, ended slavery in the US.
What is the 13th amendment?
This court case upheld the "separate but equal" thinking relating to people of color vs white people in America.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
What is nativism?
This was a naval base attack on Hawaii by the Japanese.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This law authorized the breakup of Indian American lands, in favor of it being parceled out to individuals.
What is the Dawes Act?
This movement advocated for the banning of alcohol in American society.
What is temperance?
This was the system used by political leaders to gain supporters through bribery.
What is the Spoils System?
This stated that the US had a responsibility over the nations in the Western Hemisphere and that European powers were not to interfere through colonization.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This court case established segregation in schools to be illegal.
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
This proclamation helped the civil war come to an end and declared enslaved people to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This African-American leader was known as "Black Moses", and helped enslaved people escape through the underground railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This was one of the first organized unions in America and advocated for 8-hour work days and health and safety regulations for workers.
What is the Knights of Labor
This was the scandal under President Harding's administration which included the leasing of petroleum locations to private companies at non-competitive rates.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This Boycott protested the unfair rules regarding race and seating on buses in the 1960s.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This compromise included popular sovereignty and made the Fugitive Slave Acts more powerful.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What is the Election of Ulysses S. Grant?
This Act banned the immigration of a specific group of people to the West Coast of the US.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This event which included the sinking of an American ship turned public opinion against Germany in the period leading up to WW1, contributing to American involvement in the war.
What is the Sinking of the Lusitania?
This military alliance was formed after WW2, and established between many Western nations in Europe and North America.
What is NATO?
This act created two new territories in the Midwest and allowed popular sovereignty in both regions, leading to violent conflict within the territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This President, elected after the assassination of Lincoln, vetoed legislation passed by Congress to protect the rights of those freed from slavery.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
This massacre of Indian Americans marked the end of violent Indian resistance to white settlers
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This change in American class dynamics happened with the emergence of white-collar work and an excess of income.
What is the Middle Class?
This President served during WW1 and proposed the 14 points treaty.
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?