Reconstruction/Westward Expansion
The belief that the United States had the divine right to expand westward—and that all such exploration and expansion was God-ordained.
Manifest Destiny
Which reform did the 19th Amendment enact?
Women's Suffrage
Harvard graduate who criticized Booker T. Washington founder of the NAACP
W.E.B. Du Bois
the U.S. could not annex Cuba but only leave "control of the island to its people."
Teller Amendment
Widespread panic in which great numbers of people tried to redeem their paper money
Bank Run
African Americans in the post Civil War Era faced discrimination, especially in what area?
Southern Regions
A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
Nativism
The Populist party consisted mainly of what group of people?
Farmers
What was Roosevelt's foreign policy called?
Big stick policy
A policy that the Germans made stating that their submarines would sink any ship in enemy waters
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest
Ida B. Wells
Processing station where immigrants come and could potentially spend weeks to months awaiting entry into the U.S.
Angel Island
Goal of the Americanization program during Progressive era?
Make immigrants more loyal and moral citizens
America's open door policy in China was designed to
Trade in China without controlling territory
Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Court-Packing
Common agricultural practice in the American South after the Civil War where farmer works the land of a landowner in exchange for a portion of the crop
Sharecropper
Traditionally, immigrants had to come to America for religious freedom and what?
Economic opportunity
Established the separate but equal precedent in public spaces
Plessy v. Ferguson
Name the countries that were put in control of the US after the Spanish-American War
Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico
Curtailed the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during time of war
Sedition Act of 1918
What agreement officially ended reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
steelworker strike near Pittsburgh against the Carnegie Steel Company. Ten workers were killed
Homestead strike
What did the populist party want to help raise the price of famer's crops?
Free coinage of silver to cause inflation
A foreign policy that president Taft implemented that used financial resources to promote its business interests abroad and increase its influence over Latin American countries
Dollar Diplomacy
Amount by which spending exceeds revenue over a particular period of time
Deficit Spending