Early American History
The belief that American settlers were destined to expand across North America and bring Christianity to “civilize” people.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Total control over an industry or service.
What is a monopoly?
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This event triggered a series of events that led to World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The westward edge of settlement that marked the boundary between settled and unsettled land.
What is a Frontier?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This act prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
The right to vote.
What is Suffrage?
During the early years of World War I, U.S. policy of neutrality meant...
That the United States attempted to remain neutral and avoid direct military involvement.
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
A term for Northern whites who moved to the South after the Civil War.
What is "Carpetbaggers"?
The process by which immigrants adapt to and adopt the culture and customs of their new country.
What is assimilation?
The ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
What is prohibition?
The MAIN causes of World War I.
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
The three regions of the 13 Colonies were:
What is New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
The first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?
The two railroad companies that built the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific?
Henry Ford is best known for...
Pioneering the use of assembly line production methods.
A message from Germany proposing Mexico to attack the US.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This document was mainly written by Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Reconstruction ended with...
What is the The Compromise of 1877?
The rapid growth of cities and the increasing proportion of people living in them.
What is urbanization?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This formally concluded World War I and imposed harsh penalties on Germany.
What is the treaty of Versailles?