Reconstruction
This amendment to the constitution reads: " The right of citizens... to vote shall not be denied or abridged... on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th amendment?
This not only linked the East coast to the West coast, it also increased interstate commerce nationwide.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
This is the most common example of an urban area.
What are cities?
Name given to a person who is known to expose the harmful practices in American business and government?
Who are Muckrakers?
A style of journalism that exaggerates and sensationalizes the truth.
What is Yellow Journalism.
This was used to block the new voting rights of African American males.
What were Literacy Tests?
What was the Grandfather Clause?
What were Poll Taxes?
What were threats made by members of the Ku Klux Klan?
This piece of legislation gave land to settlers out West for no cost as long as they improved the land over 5 years.
What was the Homestead Act?
This type of housing led to dangerous living conditions as city populations grew.
What was tenement housing?
This is the author of the book, The Jungle.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
This event caused Americans to declare war on Spain.
What is the sinking of the USS Maine?
This amendment to the constitution read: “Neither slavery or involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction..”
What is the 13th amendment?
These are the 4 time zones found across the United States. They were created to standardize train schedules.
What are the Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific Time Zones?
Both of these facilities processed millions of immigrants during the late 1800s.
What are Ellis Island and Angel Island.
This is the industry that the book, The Jungle, exposes unsanitary conditions.
What is the meat packing industry?
List 1 reason the United States sent a warship to Havana Harbor in Cuba before the start of the Spanish American War.
To protect America's economic interests.
These 3 amendments were added to the constitution to grant legal rights to African Americans.
What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
List 2 impacts settlers moving West had on the Plains Indians.
Forced Native Americans to assimilate.
Deadly battles between US troops and Plains Indians
Decrease in the number of buffalo
Forced to give up land and move onto reservations.
This man made a fortune in the railroad business before dying and passing his legacy on to his son.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This is the title of Jacob Riis' book that exposed slum conditions in urban areas.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
List the 4 territories the United States gained as a result of the Spanish-American War.
The Philippines
Guam
Puerto Rico
Cuba
This 1896 Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal as long as a separate facility was made available to both races.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
List an event that signified the closing of the frontier.
The Oklahoma Landrush
The US Census Bureau declares the frontier no longer exists.
This is a poem written by Emma Lazarus that welcomes new immigrants to America.
What is "The New Colossus" poem?
This amendment gives women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This man purchased the New York Journal and published exaggerated stories to sell more newspapers than his competitors.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?