Westward Expansion/Native American Experience
An attempt to "Americanize" Indians, this government policy gave Natives their own land and in exchange they paid taxes.
What is the Dawes Act?
With the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, this state would be the first of six lower South states to immediately secede from the union.
What is South Carolina?
The government's promotion of private entrepreneurship while maintaining a "hands-off" approach to the US economy.
What is laisse-faire capitalism?
Progressives often acting out of a sense of moral responsibility based on religion.
What is Social Gospel Movement?
Sensationalized newspapers and reports that distorted events that fanned America's desire to interfere in Cuba.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
This Northern strategy was proposed to limit bloodshed by "strangling" the South through a Naval blockade to seize control of the Mississippi River and essentially cutting supplies.
What is Anaconda Plan?
Men like Carnegie, Rockefeller, JP Morgan, and Vanderbuilt...
What is Captains of Industry?
A new form of journalism that gave widespread exposure to the abuses of industrial society and stimulated the desire for reform.
What is Muckrakers?
This approach as the "Big Stick" policy asserted that the US would intervene in any Latin American dispute with foreign powers.
What is Roosevelt's Corollary?
Land given by the federal government to states to develop for churches and colleges/universities that focused on agriculture and mechanics.
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act?
The loss of freedom to move away because of debts to landlords or business owners brought about by sharecropping.
What is debt peonage?
In this process, a monopoly can be accomplished by complete control over all stages of production and distribution.
What is vertical integration?
In 1911, this tragic industrial accident in New York City spurred state reformers to change state laws providing better fire safety codes for factories and further influenced more regulations benefitting workers.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
Under this US policy, the US quickly defeated Spain and annexed former Spanish colonies in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam but Cuba remained independent but under indirect US control.
What is the Teller Amendment?
It was this compromise that no slavery be allowed in the Louisiana Purchase above the 36o30'N line of latitude.
What is the Compromise of 1820?
This Reconstruction Amendment guaranteed "due process" and "equal protection under law" to all United States citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Federal law that prohibits the combinations of businesses that limit or restrict interstate trade.
Teddy Roosevelt promised Americans fair play and equality of opportunities post-Gilded Age.
What is the Square Deal?
Americans feared European powers might cut off their trade with China when European powers began establishing this.
What is Spheres of Influence?
As a result of the Mexican-American War, over 1/2 million acres was added to United States territory including California which was admitted as a free state. What system was applied to other territories taken from Mexico?
What is popular sovereignty?
This doctrine included literacy tests, poll taxes, and the "grandfather clause" which resulted in Southern democrats regaining control in Congress, effectively circumventing the 15th amendment.
What is Black Codes?
In his partnership with John D. Rockefeller, this businessman's fascination with Florida built the luxurious Ponce de Leon Hotel and the Florida East Coast Railroad to bolster tourism and extend trade to Central America?
Who is Henry Flagler?
This amendment allowed for the direct election of senators during progressive political reform in the wake of political machines like Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall.
What is the 17th amendment?
After Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, Theodore Roosevelt mediated peace between the two countries, earning him the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is the Treaty of Portsmout?