Reconstruction
Westward EXpansion
Industrialization
Immigration
Progressive /Imperialism
100
A plan that ten percent of Southerners must declare their loyalty to the Union in order to regain statehood.
What is Lincoln's 10% plan?
100
A transportation system that was a land link for the east and west coasts of the United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
A significant contribution to the industrialization of the United States which was created by Henry Ford. It simplified the duties that workers had on the job.
What is the assembly line?
100
Things that make a person want to leave his/her home country. Some examples are Irish Potato Famine, War, or economic depression.
What is a push factor?
100
He took took pictures of living conditions, and workers in urban slums.
Who is Jacob Riis?
200
A system that became another form of slavery for black Americans.
What is Sharecropping?
200
The idea that the United States is meant to occupy an area covering the Atlantic to Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
On March 25, 1911, in New York City 146 workers were killed due to the fire that could have been prevented.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
200
The historic site that opened in 1892 as an immigration station.
What is Ellis Island?
200
They contributed to the rise of the Progress Era by exposing corruption in business and government.
What is a Muckraker?
300
An organization that helped freed slaves get food, clothing and shelter.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
300
An act that gave settlers 160 acres of land in the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
When big business leaders would use ruthless business tactics against their competitors. (negative) What were they be called?
What is a robber baron?
300
A new and different society would emerge in America from the blending of all its different ethic groups.
What is the melting pot theory?
300
A United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898.
What is the USS Maine?
400
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation even after the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
400
An act designed to assimilate Native Americans into American society.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
A company that controls or dominates an industry.
What is a monopoly?
400
Areas divided into neighborhoods based on ethnicity and economics.
What is the Salad bowl theory?
400
A law that was passed as a result of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. (2 answers)
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
What is the Pure Food & Drug Act?
500
An 1898 Supreme Court Case that ruled segregation was legal as long as it was "separate by equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
Territory F.
Options; Louisiana Purchase, Gadsden Purchase or Mexican Cession.
What is the Mexican Cession?
500
The theory that the economy functions best when the government does not interfere in business, instead they are hands off.
What is laissez-faire?
500
Acts that set limits on the amount of immigrants that could come into the United States. It also was a representation of nativism. (There are a few answers)
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), the Gentlemen's Agreement (1907), the Immigration Act of 1921(Emergency Quota Act)?
500
This country became a protectorate of the U.S. as a result of the Spanish-American War?
What is Cuba?