Westward Expansion (2)
Upside to this innovation which changed America forever: easier transport of goods and people, downsides: eradication of the buffalo, two financial collapses, destruction of natural beauty...
What are railroads?
Executive Order during the Civil War that freed all the enslaved...in the Confederacy.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The nickname given to reporters and others who exposed the problems of the Gilded Age that would be addressed by progressive reforms.
What are muckrakers?
The name for sensational and often irresponsible news headlines and stories (like the controversy about the Zimmerman note)
What was Yellow journalism?
The day the stock market crashed heralding the Great Depression (not the actual date but what the day is known by).
What was Black Tuesday?
This purchase done by a skeptical Jefferson doubled the size of the United States.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The battle of Vicksburg completed this Union plan by taking the last fort on the Mississippi.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
The main purpose of "trust-busting" in the Progressive Era was to break-up this kind of business.
What is a monopoly?
The Open Door Policy (the agreement between nations to equally exploit China) was the result of this failed revolt against foreign interference.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
Who was Herbert Hoover? (just Hoover is okay)
This war added Arizona, Nevada, California and eventually Texas to the US.
What was the Mexican-American War?
Between 1820 and 1862 THIS was the most debated topic regarding slavery in US politics.
What was the expansion of slavery to the territories (or something along those lines)?
Upton Sinclair's famous book exposing dangerous and unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.
What is "The Jungle?"
The U.S. treatment and occupation of this country after they had won independence from Spain greatly intensified the debate over imperialism.
What is the Philippines?
The name for the region and historical period where Black artistic and intellectual creativity blossomed.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Not really "westward" expansion but more imperialism this war added Guam, Cuba (kinda), Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as US territories.
What was the Spanish-American War?
This Union general's "March to the Sea" and embrace of "Total War" helped win the Civil War and get Lincoln re-elected to a second term.
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?
The first immigration restriction passed against an entire country/people in US History.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This was the addition to the Monroe Doctrine that the US would intervene militarily in Central and South America to promote US interests.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
One of the primary modern criticisms of the New Deal was that Roosevelt's programs completely ignored this ongoing issue.
What were Civil rights/systemic racism?
This conflict in Minnesota, that ended with the largest mass execution in US history, set a tone for the treatment of Native Americans during the last decades of western expansion.
What was the US Dakota War?
This was the term for allowing new states and territories to vote on whether they would allow of outlaw slavery.
What is "popular sovereignty?"
Famous speech by Booker T. Washington calling for educational equality for African-Americans (at the expense of other freedoms).
What is the Atlanta Compromise speech?
This philosophy loosely based on actual science was used to justify imperialism (like the White Man's Burden) as well as systemic racism, manifest destiny, and the wealth disparity of both the age of Robber Barons and the 1920s.
What is Social Darwinism?
Also known as the First Red Scare and named for the US Attorney General who created the FBI this was one of the nativist and extreme capitalist reaction to the spread of Communism in the Soviet Union.
What were the Palmer Raids?