The Law
This amendment freed the slaves
13th amendment
How did colonists respond to the Tea Act?
Boycotting tea and tossing it into Boston Harbour
This is where most immigrants entered America
Ellis Island
The belief that relations with other countries should be guided by national self-interest is called
Realism
Term given to journalists who exposed social, political & economic problems
Muckrakers
This amendment ensured due process of the law & defined citizenship as those born in the US
14th Amendment
This side of the Civil War had greater manufacturing capabilities
The North
This Act barred Chinese immigrants from immigrating to the US in 1882
Chinese Exclusion Act
When war broke out between France and Great Britain in 1793, the United States adopted a policy of
Neutrality
What tool can labor unions use when negotiations with business owners fail?
Strike
The right to decide whether a state would be a slave state by voting
Popular Sovereignty
This battle of the American Revolution brought in the French and was considered the turning point of the war
The Battle of Saratoga
A community people live in who share a similar culture such as language, food and religion
Ethnic neighborhood
This message said Germany would help Mexico regain territory in the United States.
Zimmerman Telegram
This group of people SUPPORTED prohibition
Traditionalists
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Laws limiting what black people could do in the south
Lincoln’s victory in the Election of 1860 directly led to what?
The South seceding from the Union
The process by which a person or culture becomes more similar to a dominant culture
Assimilation
Name of the country the US acquired as part of the Spanish-American War
Puerto Rico
Name of the act requiring each new tenement to be built with a central courtyard and to have a bathroom in each apartment.
Tenement House Act
What was the decision in Plessy vs Ferguson?
Separate but equal was constitutional
John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry caused widespread fear of what in the South?
Slave rebellion
Why were many "new immigrants" discriminated against after 1880?
Competed with Americans for jobs as unskilled laborers
What was the fate of Germany's colonies at the end of World War I?
They were given as mandates to Allied nations to prepare them for self-rule.
The name of the act that attempted to enforce the 18th amendment
Volstead Act