American Indians were forced off their lands once again around 1848 for these two reasons - Name one.
Transcontinental Railroad or the California Gold Rush
100
This is the belief that people from Northern Europe and their descendants in the United States are better than anyone else.
What is Nativism or Xenophobia? Also Known As - Anglo-Saxonism.
100
The 18th Amendment ban on the sale, consumption and manufacture of alcohol which led to the birth of Organized Crime.
What is Prohibition?
100
This was a term for shantytowns that emerged during the Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
200
This amendment gave citizenship to African-Americans and introduced the "equal protection clause."
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
200
This Act of 1862 offered settlers up to 150 acres of land for $5 or less as long as they agreed to farm it for three years.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
This law, the result of an expose by Upton Sinclair, protected consumers from tainted food.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act or the FDA?
200
The Triple Alliance consisted of these nations.
What are Germany, Austria, and Italy?
200
This agency was established to ensure bank deposits up to a certain limit.
What is the FDIC?
300
This faction in Congress wanted to punish the South and treat it as a conquered country.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
300
The belief that European Americans were meant to conquer all of the America's from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
As a result of the Treaty of Paris (1901), the US gained these territories. Name 2 of 3.
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
300
During the 1920s, American demographics, living patterns, and dating changed because of this invention.
What is the automobile?
300
When this was created for senior citizens, the average American life expectancy was 62 years.
What is the Social Security Act?
400
This is the term for northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War.
What is a carpetbagger?
400
This law restricted Chinese immigration in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
These are journalists who exposed political corruption and dangerous working conditions in factories.
What are muckrakers?
400
The president during WWI who pushed hard for a League of Nations.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
The federal government paid farmers to limit their crops as a result of this act.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
500
This compromise allowed Rutherford Hayes to become President in exchange for withdrawing the last remaining federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877 or the Hayes-Tilden Election of 1876?
500
The forced "education" of American Indians, the forced housing fenced off from their neighbors, and the adoption of English sounding names instead of traditional Indian names are all a part of this law.
What is the Dawes Act?
500
Andrew Carnegie's attempt to buy all his competition made his monopoly based on ___________ Integration.
What is Horizontal?
500
This was a political scandal that involved members of Warren G. Harding's cabinet.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
500
This British economist was the intellectual foundation for the New Deal.