Reconstruction
This amendment to the constitution gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
The time period the Gilded Age is known for this.
What is rapid industrialization, the rise of big business, or growing inequality between the rich and poor (i.e. poverty, worker exploitation, child labor, horrible working conditions)?
Suffrage means this
A pull factor for immigrants coming to the United States
What are jobs and economic opportunities / a better economy?
The belief that the Americans were destined to expand from coast to coast, as if ordained by God
What is Manifest Destiny?
To stop African Americans from voting after Reconstruction politicians in the south did this
What are literacy tests, poll taxes, or the grandfather clause?
Industrial tycoons known for expanding the infrastructure of the United States, creating jobs, amassing wealth, and generous philanthropy
Who are the Captains of Industry?
Teddy Roosevelt's name for his domestic policy that aimed to create fairer conditions in society for everyone
What is the Square Deal?
Industrial tycoons known for cunning and monopolistic business practices, exploitation of workers, breaking labor strikes, and greed
Who are the Robber Barons?
The railroad that connected the East Coast with the West Coast
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The politicians who fought for constitutional rights for newly freed African Americans
Who are the Radical Republicans?
Overcrowded, dirty, and unsafe apartments in New York City were called this
What are tenements?
The amendment in the Constitution that gives women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
The government used these to stop and slow immigration from Southern / Eastern Europe and Asia in favor of immigration from Northern and Western Europe
What are immigration quotas?
The poem "New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus welcomes immigrants on this national monument?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
The landmark Supreme Court Case that justified racial segregation with the infamous words "separate, but equal"
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
This 1882 federal law was the first major U.S. law to ban immigration based on nationality, specifically targeting Chinese laborers and reflecting growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the American West
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The muckraker who exposed the corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company and John D. Rockefeller
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This law was too vaguely worded and hard to enforce because it did not define monopoly or trust
What is a major flaw in the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The law that gave people 160 acres of land if they farmed it for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
The biggest failure of Reconstruction was that after it ended a period of racial segregation followed that was also known as this
What is the Jim Crow Era?
The belief that a country does not need immigrants
What is Nativism?
The law Teddy Roosevelt used to force the break up of many monopolies
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890?
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Ratified in 1913 during the Progressive Era, this amendment changed the way U.S. Senators are chosen by allowing voters to elect them directly instead of having them selected by state legislatures.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
In 1887 the government passed this law that allowed Native American land to be divided into smaller lots and sold off resulting in the loss of 90 million acres for the Native American Tribes.
What is the Dawes Act?