Westward Expansion
The railroad that changed America by connecting the east to the west and made commerce vaster.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Groups formed by workers to protect the interests of its members. Most of these groups focused on higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions.
What are labor unions?
This French term is the name of the government’s hands off approach to regulating big businesses.
What is laissez faire?
With 50,000 casualties, this battle was the bloodiest battle in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This Amendment prohibits the federal government or any state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
This system’s main purpose was to clear federal lands for settlement by railroads, ranchers, and farmers.
What is the reservation system?
These run-down apartment buildings were cramped and often airless, allowing disease to flourish. Industrial workers often lived in these.
What are tenements?
This philosophy stressed that inequalities were part of natural selection.
What is Social Darwinism?
This compromise established the policy of popular sovereignty in two new territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A system that developed in the South after the Civil War. Under this system, a landowner allowed a tenant to live on and farm a piece of land in exchange for a portion of the harvest.
What is sharecropping?
A political movement in the late 19th century that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers against the elites and established political powers
What is the Populist Party?
Nativists' outcry against Chinese immigrants led to this act being passed. It prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers and prevented Chinese immigrants from becoming citizens.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The Sherman Antitrust Act tried to regulate which market structure?
What is a monopoly?
This was issued by Pres. Lincoln January 1, 1863, freeing those enslaved in the South, and ultimately paved the way for the end of slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This reconstruction plan imposed military districts on the South, required states to ratify the 14th/15th amendments, and prohibited confederate leaders from holding elected office.
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
This significant conflict between the US federal troops and Native American tribes resulted in a victory for the Native Americans.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
A weapon used by labor unions when negotiations with business owners fail. This action oftentimes shut down factories, railroads, and mines.
What is a strike?
This act attempted to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry by regulating things like shipping rates.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This event sparked the secession of South Carolina in 1861.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln as President?
The loopholes that southern lawmakers tried to implement to circumnavigate the amendments and worsen circumstances for black individuals.
What are black codes?
Native American culture believed land could not be owned. This act broke up reservations into individual plots of land rather than group ownership to weaken indigenous land claims.
What is the Dawes Act?
The Haymarket Affair involved a meeting arranged by anarchists. It was largely peaceful until police officers stormed in to break up the meeting. A member threw this at the police officers.
What is a bomb?
The process of buying up companies to eliminate competition is known as this.
What is horizontal integration?
This is the approximate word length of the Gettysburg Address given by Pres. Lincoln to dedicate a cemetery in the Battle of Gettysburg’s honor.
What is 250 words?
Jim Crow Laws were put in place under the principal of "separate but equal." This precedent was established in this court case.
What is Plessy vs Furguson?