This amendment to the U.S. constitution granted blacks American citizenship.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
100
While offering a way to resume agricultural production, this economic system forced many blacks to remain dependent on white landlords.
What is sharecropping?
100
As of 1900, this was the major entry point for immigrants coming to the United States on the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island?
100
An 1886 violent confrontation between police and workers during a labor rally in Chicago.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
100
This hallmark of American foreign policy was put to the test in 1895 when the United States insisted that it negotiate for the British in its territorial dispute with Venezuela.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
200
The inclusion of black suffrage in this legislation initiated the period of radical reconstruction.
What is the Military Resconstruction Act of 1867?
200
This started as a social club, but it eventually became an institution associated with terrorism in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
These immigrants tended to originate from southern and eastern Europe.
What are late 19th Century Immigrants?
200
This 1892 event pitted workers’ rights, represented by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, against private property rights, represented by the Carnegie Steel Company, in a bloody strike.
What is the Homestead Lockout/Strike?
200
In 1900, a secret society opposing missionaries and other foreigners in China, staged this rebellion.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
300
Federal legislation that granted blacks “full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens” and that passed after Congress overrode a presidential veto.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
300
The establishment of this in 1865 significantly raised ex-slaves’ hopes of owning their own land.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
Located in the San Francisco Bay, this immigration station was designed to keep out “undesirables.”
What is Angel Island?
300
This 1877 spontaneous and unorganized strike was put down when President Hayes called out the army to protect business owners’ property.
What is the Great Railroad Strike?
300
American sugar interests failed to annex this territory after fomenting a rebellion against a local queen.
What is Hawaii?
400
This law made Lincoln’s “10 percent plan” moot.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
400
This political party was made up primarily by carpetbaggers, scalawags, and freedmen.
What is the Republican Party in the South?
400
The 1882 legislation severely restricted future immigration by a once- numerous and prominent Asian minority group in the West.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
This 1893 strike was primarily about the company’s control of the work process and it ended when the courts issued an injunction leading to the imprisonment of the workers’ union leader.
What is the Pullman Strike/Boycott?
400
Apaches despised this desolate piece of desert into which they had been relocated in 1882.
What is the San Carolos Reservation?
500
This legislation was intended to protect southern Republicans from Ku Klux Klan violence.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
500
This northern denomination gave freedmen a chance to worship without the white oversight they had experienced during slavery.
What is the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
500
These recently freed slaves managed to pull together enough resources to move from Mississippi and Louisiana to take up land in Kansas.
What are Exodusters?
500
The primary issue that triggered this 1894 strike was owners’ efforts to lengthen the workday from eight to ten hours.
What is the Cripple Creek Miners' Strike?
500
This series of provisions granted the United States the right to intervene to protect Cuba’s “independence,” as well as the power to oversee Cuban debt so that European creditors could not find an excuse for intervention.