Civil War
This strategy involved blockading southern ports and taking over the Mississippi River valley to divide the south and force surrender
Anaconda Plan
This law banned slavery in all the states
13th Amendment
Political party of the farmers and laborers that formed in the west
Populist party
This innovation allowed for cheaper stronger mass produced steel
Bessemer Process
Labor union that included skilled and unskilled workers; accepted women and minorities
Knights of Labor
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Big stick policy
Missouri and mitted as a slave state, Maine is a free state; slavery prohibited above 36 30 parallel
Missouri Compromise
Who was this: Tennessee Democrat; opposed punishing Confederate states; Opposed Congress Reconstruction allowed Confederates to join Congress; was impeached
Andrew Johnson
This law gave settlers land for extremely cheap rates to encourage expansion
Homestead Act
This inventor created the telegraph and a system of communication using dots and dashes
Samuel Morse
Individuals who believed society is in competition and only the strongest survive
Social Darwinists
Journalists who exposed the wrongdoings of industry
muckrakers
This book inspired Roosevelt to build the power of the US navy
Alfred Mahan's The influence of Sea Power upon History
This event was the final event that led the south to secede
Lincoln wins election of 1860
The 14th Amendment stated anyone born/ naturalized in the US is a citizen, and citizens are entitled to due process and ____ _____ _____ ______
Equal protection under law
Farmers in the west struggled due to high____ _____ and low ______ ______
railroad prices; crop prices
The practice of a business owning all the levels of production to control costs
Vertical integration
federation of multiple unions that only accepted skilled workers; no women; immigrants or minorities accepted
American Federation of Labor
The largest and most powerful political machine during the Progressive era
tammany hall
This refers to journalism stirring feelings of the public using exaggerated stories
yellow journalism
General Grant won here to take control of the Mississippi river Valley
Vicksburg
Northerners who moved to the SOuth and supported Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
Dawes Act
The process of a company eliminating its competitors to control the market
horizontal integration
During this protest, explosion led to union leaders being arrested; unions became associated with violence and anarchism
Haymarket Riot
This amendment led to direct election of senators
17th amendment
Territories acquired during us imperialist era
PR, Guam, Phillipines, Hawaii
Slaves were declared free in rebellious states; did not actually free anyone
Emancipation Proclamation
The practice of working the land for a plantation owner in exchange for a portion of the harvest
sharecropping
This law was passed to regulate the Railroad rates; first time government really intervenes in business practices
interstate commerce act
Telegraph, lightbulb, bessemer process, stock market all innovations of the ____ industrial Revolution
2nd Industrial Revolution
In this protest, Carnegie and Frick decided to break the strike; state militia sent in; workers were locked out. Union gave in and lost
Homestead Strike
This progressive president used the Sherman Antitrust act to break multiple monopolies during his presidency
Theodore Roosevelt
The _____ ______ and the sinking of the USS Maine led to the US declaring war against Spain
DeLome Letter
After this battle, the South suffered heavy casualties, and never invaded the North again
Gettysburg
Laws meant to separate individuals by race
Jim Crow laws; segregation laws
Cross of Gold Speech
ANdrew Carnegie
Political ideology that says workers should own means of production; does not call for violent revolution
socialism
This reformer exposed the corruption of Standard Oil Corporation
Ida Tarbelll
This amendment says the US would promise not to annex cuba
teller amendment
California was admitted as free state; Slavery banned in D.C.; incuded Fugitive Slave ACt; popular sovereignty in land acquired from Mexico
Compromise of 1850
The practice of being unable to leave service if a farmer could not pay back his loans to the landowner
debt peonage
This law was briefly passed to increase the money supply by supporting bimetallism but was repealed later
Sherman Silver Purchase act
Oil Tycoon; supported horizontal integration
John Rockefeller
Individuals should own the means of production and the market should be based solely on supply and demand
capitalism
Japan; China
This was built to be able to pass from the Pacific, and atlantic ocean, greatly benefitting american trade
Panama Canal