The West and Native Americans
The 19th century belief that the expansion of the U.S. expansion throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
Manifest Destiny
An Era from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to 1965 where state and local laws were passed by which white southerners asserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights
Jim Crow
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
Capitalism
A political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded (ignored) by established elite groups
Populism
The practice of spreading a nation’s power through economic, political, and/or military means
Imperialism
Ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote
19th Amendment
Why did Forty-niners and others rush to California?
California Gold Rush
Laws that restricted black people in many ways including property rights, business rights, and the use of public accommodations and facilities; stop gathering in the same place
Black Codes
The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale
Industrialization
An organized group of workers who unite to make decisions about conditions affecting their work
Labor Unions
April to December 1898, was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America; Guam, The Philippines, and Puerto Rico.
The Spanish-American War
The ability of an individual or organization to obtain goods or services before payment, based on an agreement to pay later
Credit
Name given to African Americans who migrated to the western territories from the eastern and southern states
Exodusters
The ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races." This legalized racial segregation.
Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896
The process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
Urbanization
A time period in U.S. history that emphasized political and social reform and specifically fights against corrupt business practices while promoting economic reform and social welfare
Progressive Movement
This island nation was acquired by the United States in 1898 and became a state in 1959.
Hawaii
Legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment
Prohibition
A period between 1831-1850 where Native Americans were forced to move from their sacred lands east of the Mississippi River to places west of the Mississippi River (Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri)
Trail of Tears
An examination to determine whether a person meets the literary requirements for voting
Literacy Test
A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century).
Robber Barons
Journalists who exposed and investigated the challenges and corruption that came with industrialization and urbanization
Muckrakers
The type of fighting that came to dominate in World War I that consisted of armies attacking, counterattacking and defending. New weapons led to massive death tolls.
Trench Warfare
The longest and most severe economic downturn in American history. It was characterized by reduced industrial output, bank failures, high unemployment, and increased poverty. It began with the stock market crash of 1929 and ended in the late 1930s
The Great Depression
Any adult citizen (21 years or older) or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the United States could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land
Homestead Act of 1862
A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
Sharecropping
A time period from late 1870s to early 1900s that consisted of intense industrialization, often associated with corrupt business practices, ethics, and ideals, ends with the Progressive Era
Gilded Age
“The Trustbuster” Took over presidency in 1901, after William McKinley was assassinated. 26th President of the U.S. Won the 1904 Presidential Election.
President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Treaty created by U.S., France, Italy, and Great Britain to end World War I; signed by Germany in 1919
Treaty of Versailles
A series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans
The New Deal