Civil War and Reconstruction
These three laws abolished slavery, called for equal citizenship, and the right to vote for African Americans.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment.
This animal played a crucial role in the Plains Indians' way of life.
Buffalo
This term describes negative circumstances that cause people to want to leave their home country to immigrate to another one.
Push Factor.
Newspapers who sensationalized events and published biased stories against the Spanish during the Spanish-American War were demonstrating this type of journalism.
Yellow Journalism.
Term for the movement (not the law) to ban alcohol.
Temperance.
Best selling anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book was written to shed light on poor working and living conditions of immigrants, but readers focused more on the lack of sanitation in the meat packing industry.
The Jungle
These industrialists made their wealth by exploiting their workers or damaging the economy.
Robber Baron.
This policy allowed for the U.S. and European countries to trade with China.
Open Door Policy.
Term for extreme patriotism that often takes the form of aggressive foreign policy.
Jingoism.
This act allowed two new states to choose whether or not they would allow slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Jacob Riis are all examples of this type of journalist who exposed corruption in government and businesses.
Muckraker.
This workplace tragedy caused the death of over 100 women and girls and led to the creation of building safety laws such as fire escapes and doors opening outward.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
The phrase "splendid little war" refers to which conflict?
Spanish-American War.
The name of the collection of state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the south following the Civil War.
Jim Crow Laws.
This organization was created to assist former slaves following the Civil War.
Freedmen's Bureau.
This piece of legislature was passed to encourage settlers to migrate west and promised 160 acres of land in exchange for a minimal filling fee and continuous residence for 5 years.
Homestead Act.
The creation of what type of railroad cars led to advancements in the meat industry?
Refrigerated Cars.
This document stated that the U.S. would not intervene in European affairs unless European countries tried to colonize any countries in the Americas.
Monroe Doctrine.
African Americans who migrated to Kansas for land and opportunity.
Exodusters.
This Reconstruction Plan, proposed by Lincoln, allowed for any Confederate state to rejoin the Union if a certain percentage swore an oath of loyalty.
The Ten Percent Plan.
Which company was the first to start mail order catalogs beginning with selling pocket watches to train conductors?
Sears.
Revolutionary process for inexpensively mass producing steel brought to the U.S. from the U.K. by Andrew Carnegie.
Bessemer Process.
Who led the Filipino people in a war for independence following the Spanish-American War?
Emilio Aguinaldo.
Term used when a state was able to decide itself (rather than the Federal government deciding) whether it should become a free state or slave state.
Popular Sovereignty.