Reconstruction
Court case that established "Separate but equal" as the law of the land.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Belief that the United States was meant to expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
2 immigration stations in the United States. One is in New York for processing European immigrants, the other in California for processing Asian immigrants.
What is Ellis Island and Angel Island?
Journalists who tried to uncover corruption in society.
What are muckrakers?
Policy by which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker nations.
What is imperialism?
Assisted formally enslaved people by providing them food, clothing, and education.
What is the Freedman's Bureau
160 acres of free land given to anyone who agreed to live and improve the land for 5 years. Encouraged people to move out West.
What is the Homestead Act?
2 Goals of unions (what did they fight for?).
Shorter work days
Better/equal pay for workers
End of child labor
Safer working conditions
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist factory?
Style of journalism that exaggerates and sensationalizes the truth.
Yellow Journalism
Reconstruction amendments (3) that were added to the Constitution to give legal rights to African Americans.
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
Linked the nation from East to West and economically.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Message of Emma Lazarus "New Colossus" Poem.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost, to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This was built to shorten the distance and time it would take for ships to travel between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
Farming practice that encouraged a cycle of poverty for newly freed slaves.
What is sharecropping?
Banned monopolies and trusts that interfered with free competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act (Clayton Antitrust Act)?
2 Pull factors for immigration to the United States.
Opportunity to star over; Healthy Living
Freedom and tolerance
Abundant affordable land
During the Progressive Era, states began to use these to give people more of a say in directly electing their representatives to government.
What are Primary Elections?
As a result of American imperialism, list 2 areas of the world the United States expands to/ takes over?
Alaska/Hawaii
Puerto Rico
The Philippines
Panama Canal
Cuba
Guam
2 ways to disenfranchise African Americans (keep them from voting) in the South.
Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes
Grandfather clause
Intimidation from KKK members
2 ways Native Americans were forced to assimilate.
The Dawes Act
Sending Native American kids to white boarding schools.
Teaching Native American kids to English
2 Push Factors for immigration to the United States.
Religious and political turmoil (unrest).
Overcrowding due to population growth.
Debt and hunger from crop failures.
2 Major changes Teddy Roosevelt made as President.
Broke up bad trusts - "Trustbuster"
Square Deal
Conservation - National Parks
Pure Food and Drug Act
1 Impact of the Spanish American War.
America becomes an empire
Philippines become an American colony
Cuba under US military control
Puerto Rico becomes a US territory