Unit 1
The name given to the collection of Southern states during the Civil War
What is The Confederacy?
Belief that Americans were destined to expand West
What is Manifest Destiny?
Treaty to peacefully end WWI
What is Treaty of Versailles?
Immigration Station in California
What is Angel Island?
The Reconstruction amendment officially ended slavery in the United States
What is 13th Amendment?
This term refers to the act of formally leaving a country or political territory
What is Secession?
Term that describes the policy of favoring the interests of native-born Americans
What is Nativism?
Things happening in the United States which gives people reasons to immigrate into the United States
What are pull factors?
The Reconstruction Amendment that granted African American men the right to vote
What is 15th Amendment?
This invention increased the amount of cotton in the South and increased the demand for slave labor
What is the Cotton Gin?
This invention allowed factories to operate 24/7
What is Electric Lighting/Lightbulb?
This was intercepted between Germany and Mexico, which forced the US to join WWI
What is the Zimmerman Telegram/Note?
The Progressive Amendment established graduated income tax
What is 16th Amendment?
The Progressive Amendment that granted women the right to vote
What is 19th Amendment?
These were given at polls specifically to try to disenfranchise African American voters
What are Literacy Tests?
The process of large numbers of people moving to a single area, causing cities to form
What is Urbanization?
This was passed by Congress to increase the size of the army through a draft
What is the Selective Service Act?
Government agency that was designed to help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom by providing food, clothing, and labor contracts
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The Progressive Amendment that prohibited alcohol
What is 18th Amendment?
Describe the economic difference between the North and the South leading up to the Civil War
What is... The North had an industrial economy and the South had an agriculutral economy?
Exams that immigrants had to pass before immigrating into the United States (Ellis Island)
What is the medical exam and legal questionarre?
What is the Sedition Act?
This territory was imperialized by the US for economic interests and military value (due to its location)
What is Hawaii?
The Progressive Amendment that granted direct election of senators by the people
What is 17th Amendment?