Civil War/
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
The Union’s military strategy, aimed at blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River to split the Confederacy.
The Anaconda Plan.
This policy aimed to integrate Native Americans into American society by encouraging them to adopt farming, education, and European/ American customs.
Assimilation
The Major economic problems facing farmers (name at least one).
Unfair shipping rates
“Middlemen” who forced farmers to sell at a low price
Inflation
Natural disasters
International Competition
This Inventor is credited with creating the practical electric lightbulb and establishing the first electrical power distribution system.
Thomas Edison
This was the name given to the strategy to sell more newspapers by sensationalizing or distorting news events to arouse interest and evoke empathy.
Yellow Journalism
Trick for remembering the Three Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th)
FREE-CITIZENS-VOTE
Completed in 1869, this major infrastructure project connected the eastern US with the West Coast, accelerating westward expansion.
The Transcontinental Railroad
This late 19th century movement started as a social and educational group for farmers to combat economic challenges and eventually pushed for political reforms.
The Granger Movement
This process revolutionized steel production by making it faster and cheaper, fueling industrial growth in the late 19th century.
Bessemer Process
This 1898 conflict lasted only about 4 months but resulted in the US gaining Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, while Cuba gained independence under American influence.
The Spanish-American War.
This federal agency was created during reconstruction to provide food, housing, medical aid, and education to former slaves in the south.
The Freedmen’s Bureau.
The belief that the United Sates was divinely ordained to expand its dominion across the entirety of North America.
Manifest Destiny
This political party, known as “the People’s Party, stemmed from the Granger Movement and Farmers alliances, and was later merged with the Democratic Party.
The Populist Party
This type of business integration involves controlling every step of production from raw materials to finished products and delivery.
Vertical Interation
After supporting Panama's independence from Colombia in 1903, the United States began construction of this 50-mile waterway that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The Panama Canal
This term describes the period after Reconstruction when racial violence, segregation, Jim Crow laws, and discriminations against Black Americans reached its peak.
The Nadir
Westward expansion, and war against native Americans led to the decline in population of this American animal.
Buffalo or Bison
Populist Party Platform (Name at least one).
Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver
Direct election of Senators
Secret Ballots
Graduated Income Tax
Government ownership of Railroads
8-hour work day
This Theory, often applied to business and society during industrialization, justified competition and the survival of the fittest in economics.
Social Darwinism
This president's foreign policy motto was "speak softly and carry a big stick," and he won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
This system replaced slavery economically by having freedmen work land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crop.
Sharecropping
Passed in 1887, this law divided tribal lands into plots to encourage Native Americans to farm and abandon communal land ownership.
The Dawes Act
Many ideas from the Populist Party were later adopted by this early 20th-century reform movement.
The Progressive Era
This Industrialist used Vertical Integration to build a steel empire and became one of the richest men in history.
Andrew Carnegie
Proposed by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899, this policy sought to ensure equal trading rights for all nations in China and prevent any single country from monopolizing Chinese trade
The Open Door Policy