Reconstruction
This amendment bans slavery in the US & any of its territories
What is the 13th amendment?
This reason for moving west is related to its discovery in California in 1848.
What is gold?
This immigrant processing center was where most Europeans went through when they immigrated to America?
What is Ellis Island?
This means the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This event led to the US getting involved in the Spanish-American War.
What is the sinking of the USS Maine?
These laws were passed by southern states to prevent blacks from having full freedom.
What are Black Codes?
Before the Civil War, many people saw the Great Plains as a "____________ ____________."
What is a treeless wasteland?
Explain the difference between a tenement and a ghetto.
A tenement is an overcrowded apartment building, while a ghetto is a neighborhood where a similar group of people lived.
This is the name of the movement where people wanted to ban alcohol.
What is temperance?
This is a type of journalism that rarely relies on facts and is prone to exaggeration
What is yellow journalism?
This former Confederate general wanted Southerners to reconcile with the North when some wanted to continue fighting.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This Native American leader fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
Describe a monopoly.
What is the sole control of a business or resource?
This amendment banned alcohol in the United States
What is the 18th amendment?
The United States began to act as an "international police force" as a result of what?
Name the three Reconstruction amendments and what rights each of them gave.
What is the 13th amendment (freed the slaves), 14th amendment (citizenship), and 15th amendment (right to vote for all men)?
Explain assimilation.
What is forcing a group of people to adapt a new, more popular culture and abandon their traditional one?
Name three entrepreneurs and the business they had a monopoly over.
Cornelius Vanderbilt- railroads, John D. Rockefeller-oil, Andrew Carnegie-steel, Thomas Edison-lightbulb, and Alexander Graham Bell-telephone.
This man wanted to end segregation through vocational education, learning a skill to get a job.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This organization was created to keep the peace after World War I; it was a part of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points.
What is the League of Nations?
This ended Reconstruction and caused the federal troops to leave the south.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Name all six of the inventions/adaptations that helped people live on the Great Plains.
What is the windmill, barbed wire, steel plow, Transcontinental Railroad, McCormick's reaper, and sod houses?
These four reasons were why people immigrated to the United States.
What is religious freedom, hope for better opportunities, adventure, and escape from oppressive governments?
Child labor, unsafe working conditions, and long work hours were all negative effects of what?
What is industrialization?
Explain the MANIA causes of World War I.
What is militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism, and assassination?