Unit 1 (Founding Documents)
This was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence
What is to separate the colonies from Great Britain
What is the Bessemer Process
This immigration station is located in San Francisco on the West coast
What is Angel Island
These people (or this movement) wanted to protect workers, help the poor, fight big business (monopolies), and improve moral behavior in society
What is a Progressive
This explosive event helped lead to the Spanish American war
What is the sinking of the USS Maine
This document set up a plan to admit new states as the US grew in territory (no slavery, had to have population that equaled smallest state)
What is the Northwest Ordinance
This US practices this form of economic system (includes free markets, big business, and consumers)
This nickname for America refers to many cultures living together in the US
What is The Melting Pot
These were passed to stop monopolies and protect consumers
What are Anti-Trust laws (consumer protection laws)
This form of media helped influence American citizens to support the Spanish American War
What Yellow Journalism
This term refers to a system where power is shared between the state governments and the national governments
What is Federalism
These three things kept African Americans from voting in the South
What is poll tax, literacy test, and Grandfather clause
this act tried to eliminate all Chinese immigrants from entering the United States
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
This book exposed unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry
What is the Jungle by Upton Sinclair
this rebellion occurred in China as rebels tried to remove all foreign influence
What is the boxer rebellion
This was America's first attempt at a constitution
What is the Articles of Confederation
What is separate but equal was legal in public places
this is when someone appoints a friend to a political position
What is patronage
Woodrow Wilson (democrat) won the 1912 presidential election because of this
What is a split in the republic party (between Roosevelt and Taft)
The US acquired these 2 states during Imperialism
What is Hawaii and Alaska
This event demonstrated the weakness of the Articles of Confederation
What is Shays Rebellion
This was the effect in the South when federal troops left
What is It allowed racial discrimination to be continued without Union supervision.
This Act required that the most qualified people were hired for government jobs
What the Pendleton Civil Service Act
What is Democratic
These are economic reasons for Imperialism (2)
What is a desire to sell cheap goods to new people and acquire cheap raw materials