Which amendment ended slavery in the U.S. making it illegal to own another human being?
What is the 13th Amendment?
Promised settlers 160 acres for free if they farmed it for five years.
What is The Homestead Act?
Located in New York Harbor, it was the main point of entry into the U.S. for immigrants (mainly from Europe) from 1892 to 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
What company controlled 95% of oil refineries by 1877, was controlled by John D. Rockefeller and Muckraker Ida Tarbell exposed their monopolistic practices?
What is the Standard Oil Company?
Supreme Court case which declared "separate but equal" to be constitutional. Led to legal segregation in the South.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were passed by Congress after President Roosevelt read_________ by ________
What is THE JUNGLE by UPTON SINCLAIR?
American naval vessel that was sunk by the Spanish in Havana Harbor Cuba; started the Spanish American War.
What is USS Maine?
Name the two alliances in World War I.
What is the Central Powers, (Germany and Austria-Hungary, joined by Ottoman Turkey) and Allied Powers, (Britain, France, Russia and later Italy)?
This group called the ______________ __________ wanted to give freed slaves homesteads, economic independence, and the right to vote. This group also wanted to punish the south.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
These government lands were for tribes that signed a treaty with the federal government. In return the indian tribes promised not to go beyond the borders of these lands.
What is the Reservation System?
Reduced the cost of making steel by more than 80% while also making it stronger and more durable.
What is Bessemer Process?
These tactics were used by who during the Labor Movement - Yellow Dog Contracts, Blacklisting, Lockouts and Strike breakers.
What is tactics of Management to resist labor?
One big difference between the "Old Immigrants" and "New Immigrants" is that the New Immigrants ______________
New Immigrants did not speak English and had very different religions. They were mainly from Southern (Italy) and Eastern Europe?
Journalists, photographers and authors who published their work in order to raise awareness of social issues and injustices.
What is a muckraker?
A technique for selling more newspapers by sensationalizing and distorting the facts in stories written.
What is Yellow Journalism?
A policy of not choosing sides in a conflict; it was the reason the U.S. was slow to enter World War I.
What is neutrality?
Which amendment gave all people born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens and all citizens have equal protection under the law?
What is the 14th Amendment?
Some reformers encouraged Indians to adopt American ways and institutions such as priviate property. It was thought that Indians could become part of mainstream society.
What is Americanization?
Thomas Edison invented ________
George Pullman invented _____
What is Light Bulb?
What is Sleeping Car?
This famous "riot" in 1886 killed a police officer. The German anarchists thought to be associated with this riot were taken into custody. These eight anarchists were found to be guilty. Four of the eight were hanged, one committed suicide and two served life in prison.
What was the Haymarket Riot?
The belief that native-born Americans were superior to others and that immigrants and their diverse cultural influences were undesirable.
What is Nativism?
This amendment provided for the direct election of Senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
Spanish Ambassador wrote that the President of the United States was ,"weak" indicating that the Spanish were not being truthful with Cuba of the U.S.
What is The De Lome Letter?
A coded message sent by the German Foreign Minister to Mexico proposing a military alliance against the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Note, (Telegram).
A welfare agency created to provide aid, school, healthcare, and clothing to poor whites and newly freed slaves.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Threatened the survival of Indian culture.
A law that let the federal government divide up reservations (land that belonged to Native American tribes), and give pieces of them to individual Native Americans instead.
What is the Dawes Act?
A Captain of Industry made his fortune in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Who faced these problems: Impersonal working conditions, long working hours, low wages, Lack of opportunity for advancement and Child Labor?
What is Problems Faced by Industrial Workers?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
Taken together, these increased the power of voters in the political process.
What is initiative, recall, and referendum?
Built to shorten the distance that ships had to travel to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
The widespread migration of millions of African Americans from the South to the North and West during the 20th century.
What is the Great Migration?
This Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The last major conflict between the U.S. Army and Native Americans in which an overwhelming force of U.S. soldiers killed over 200 men, women, and children of the Lakota Indians.
What is Wounded Knee?
Banned this group of laborers from immigrating to the U.S. for ten years because their efforts to build the railroad in the West created anger in white laborers.
What led to the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This labor union was founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers. It became a powerful force in fighting for workers' rights through strikes and through politics.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
An economic philosophy that the government should not interfere in the free market (Hint: "hands off")
What is Laissez-faire?
A civil rights group founded in 1909 to work to end racial discrimination.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
A treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that gave the U.S. increased control over the island in order to protect U.S. interests in the Caribbean.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This "treaty" brought an end to WWI, it imposed harsh penalties on Germany including losing much of its territory, signing a War Guilt Clause and required to pay large repartations and Included the League of Nations.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War intended to deny former slaves their full civil rights.
What are Black Codes?
Transported raw materials used in industrial production, such as coal and iron ore
Were also one of the largest consumers of raw materials in their own
Connected the East Coast with the West Coast
What is the railroad industry or trancontinental railroad?
This California based immigration center processed immigrants arriving mainly from Asia.
What is Angel Island?
More factories created many more job opportunities in cities. People move from rural areas to large urban locations. Minorities and immigrants increased these numbers.
What was the impact of immigration on urban America?
A deadly disaster in a New York City sweatshop that started a national movement to pass laws providing safety and fire codes in factories.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
Laws in the South based on race. They enforced segregation between white people and black people in public places such as schools.
What are Jim Crow laws?
A foreign policy statement by Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 that claimed the right of the United States to intervene in the domestic affairs of Western Hemisphere nations to maintain stability.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This was an international peacekeeping organization that was part of President Wilson Fourteen Points. It would be rejected by the U.S. Senate.
What is The League of Nations?