Amendments
Gave women right to vote
19th amendment
Many freed slaves found themselves in a position where they lived on someone else's land and were paid not with money but a share of the crop they helped produce.
Sharecropper
This man was a Captain of Industry who used the Bessemer Process to mass produce Steel in the United States.
Andrew Carnegie
State laws that codified segregation of whites and blacks in the south
Jim Crow Laws
Economic policy that believes government should NOT regulate business or get involved in the economy.
laissez faire
abolished slavery
13th amendment
When one cultural group is absorbed into another, and old customs and attitudes are replaced with new ones this is called the process of .....
assimilation
This president is remembered for giving the Gettysburg Address
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This law gave settlers 160 acres of land if they could pay a $10 fee and live on the land for 5 years.
Homestead Act
Poverty, lack of employment, overcrowding, and religious intolerance are all examples of?
push factors
Prohibited the transportation, sale, and manufacturing of intoxicating liquors.
18th amendment
The political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native-born or indigenous people over those of immigrants
What is nativism?
This President developed a foreign policy known as Big Stick diplomacy in which he used the threat of U.S. intervention to promote U.S. interests abroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
This Law was passed after Upton Sinclair published the Jungle.
Meat Inspection Act
OR
Pure Food and Drug Act
Which term from the 1920s is most closely associated with Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes?
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Gave African American men the right to vote
15th amendment
What was the negative nickname given by southerners to northerners who moved south after the Civil War to try and make a profit during reconstruction.
Carpetbaggers
This president was responsible for creating the New Deal to stimulate the American economy during the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
While not a formal law this foreign policy dominated U.S. actions abroad for over 80 years. The policy warned European nations to stay out of the affairs of the western hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
What was the name of the organization founded by WEB Dubois to fight for the civil rights of African Americans during the Progressive Era.
N.A.A.C.P. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
16th amendment
The right of women to vote in elections
What is women's suffrage?
(or the 19th Amendment)
This person was a famous muckraker who tried to reveal the overcrowded and dirty living conditions in American cities.
Jacob Riis
These 2 laws were passed to limit the power of Monopolies during the progressive era. Name 2.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
Major reforms and projects in the 1930's aimed at reviving the economy, reducing unemployment, and improving infrastructure.
What was the New Deal?