Westward Expansion
African Americans that fled Southern States and went westward in hopes of land, wealth, and freedom.
What are Exodusters?
Style of economics in which the Government has little interference in the economy
What is Laissez Faire Economics?
Journalists and photographers in which expose Societal Problems in the Progressive Era are called what?
What are Muckrakers?
The sinking of this began US fighting in the Spanish American War
What is the USS Maine?
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
What is Nativism?
The creation of this, made transportation of food and cattle out west much easier and connected East and West Coast
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
These offered immigrants protection, jobs, and housing and returns for votes
What are Political Machines?
This African American Leader believed in Immediate Desegregation and Traditional Education
Who is W.E.B Dubois?
The idea in which Americans are superior and better suited for success is called what?
What is International Darwinism/Social Darwinism?
The process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble those of a dominant group. (Native Americans)
What is assimilation?
What act gave Farmers 160 acres if they lived on it for 5 years and made improvements to the land?
What is the Homestead Act?
The most influential political boss leader and leader of a Political Machine and was later brought down by Thomas Nast is Who?
Who is Boss Tweed?
What Muckraker wrote "The Way The Other Half Lives" and captured the terrible conditions of Tenements
Who is Jacob Riis?
What was the place in which American Businessmen became obsessed with Sugar and jailed Queen liliuokalani
What is Hawaii?
What is a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed POSITIVELY to the country in some way.
What is a captain of industry?
What was the most aspect for the destruction of Native Americans way of Life?
What is the Destruction of the Buffalo?
The type of integration in which companies control every stage of the production process is called what?
What is Vertical Integration?
These two suffrage leaders are seen as the leaders with the New Wave of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Who is Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt
The Committee in World War One in which was tasked with influencing Public Opinion during the War. Did so by creating propaganda cartoons
What is the committee on public information?
When a stronger country takes over a weaker country economically, militarily and politically
What is Imperialism?
The act in which states game money to states for agricultural Colleges is called what?
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act?
The purpose of these acts were an attempt to regulate businesses and taken power out of the hands of big businesses (one act and one commission)
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Interstate Commerce Commission?
What amendment elevated the income tax to where people with higher incomes get taxed more
What is the 16th amendment?
The name of the legislation past in which promises Cuba that the US will not annex them after the Spanish American War is called what?
What is the Teller Amendment?
An extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.
What is Jingoism?