Amendments
This Amendment outlawed the institution of slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This tragic 1911 disaster ended up leading to major workplace safety reforms.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This act banned the sale of contaminated food products, harmful medical products, and required truth in labeling.
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This set of laws outlined a legal system of segregation in the South for decades after the Civil War.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This belief states that it was America's god given right to expand Westward to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This Amendment banned the importation, manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This term is used to criticize industrial tycoons like Rockefeller and Carnegie for cruel and unfair business practices.
What is a robber baron?
This 1890 act would result in several lawsuits that required monopolies to split up.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This practice involved the cultural conversion of Native Americans, including sending Native American youth to boarding schools.
What was assimilation?
This journalistic practice involves exaggerating details of news stories in order to increase readership.
What is yellow journalism?
After this Amendment, all adult US citizens constitutionally had the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Members of these two demographic groups served as the primary labor force behind the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who were Chinese and Irish immigrants?
This 1882 act restricted immigration from a well-known country in Asia.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This institution replaced slavery as a major labor source on plantations following the Civil War.
What was sharecropping?
From 1890 to 1920, the largest group of immigrants to America came from this region of the world. (Be more specific than a continent).
What was eastern and southern Europe?
This Amendment legalized a graduated federal income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This practice is commonly used by labor unions in order to gain better pay, working conditions, and working hours.
What is collective bargaining?
This landmark Supreme Court decision established that segregation was acceptable provided that facilities were "separate but equal."
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This group of people had their rights stripped by the Bayonet Constitution, lost their right to vote, and did not have a say in whether or not their home was annexed by the United States.
Who were Native Hawaiians?
Amusement parks, increased access to printed materials, and beachgoing are all examples of this postindustrial phenomenon.
What is mass culture?
This Amendment established that all people born or naturalized in the US are citizens (besides Native Americans) and that all citizens have equal protection under the law. It also forbade former Confederate leaders from returning to elected government positions.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This individual served as a labor union leader and would be jailed for his involvement in the Pullman railroad strike.
Who was Eugene V. Debs?
This corrupt private deal ended military occupation in the South, effectively bringing an end to the Reconstruction era, while allowing the Republican candidate to win the presidential election.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Segregated public schools, transportation, and marriage were all examples of this type of segregation.
What was de jure segregation?
This imperialistic ideology and its founder centered around making the world "safe for democracy."
What was Woodrow Wilson's moral diplomacy?