Throw back Thursday
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation and strengthened the federal government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Conflicts over slavery and its expansion increased this regional tension.
What is sectionalism?
The invention that boosted the plantation system in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
“Old” immigrants were more likely to assimilate than these newer arrivals from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Who were the “New Immigrants”?
Workers joined these groups to fight for better pay and conditions.
What are labor unions?
Shays’ Rebellion revealed this weakness in the national government.
What is that the Articles of Confederation were too weak?
The 1850 law requiring escaped enslaved people to be returned led to this act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
When a company controls all stages of production, like Carnegie’s steel industry.
What is vertical integration?
This 1882 law banned Chinese immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Workers used these tactics to pressure employers during disputes.
What are strikes?
The first form of self-government in the colonies was this Virginia assembly.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The government’s effort to break up reservations and assimilate Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
When a company buys out all competitors in the same industry, like Rockefeller’s oil business.
What is horizontal integration?
Nativists feared immigrants would do this to native-born Americans.
What is take their jobs?
This law was the first attempt to limit monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The highest legal authority in the United States.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This group of African Americans left the South after Reconstruction to escape racial violence.
Who were the Exodusters?
Andrew Carnegie believed the rich should use their wealth to improve society — this idea is known as what?
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Immigrants tended to settle in these areas as industrialization increased.
What are cities?
Farmers formed this group that led to the Populist Party.
What is the Farmers’ Alliance?
This 1776 document stated that “all men are created equal.”
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The federal government attempted to “Americanize” Native children through these institutions.
What are Native American boarding schools?
This 1890 law gave the government power to limit monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Mark Twain called the late 1800s the “Gilded Age” because...
What is a few were rich while most were poor?
This civil rights leader believed equality should come immediately, not gradually.
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?