Government Questions
The 19th President of the United States who brought Reconstruction to an end.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The US government adopted these policies to try and change Native-American Culture.
Assimilation.
Amendment that granted women the right to vote.
19th Amendment.
This type of news reporting that was sensationalized.
Yellow Journalism.
People who expose political and social corruption.
Muckrakers.
An informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election.
Compromise of 1877
In 1877 this act said that Native-American tribes could no longer own land.
The Dawes Act.
Amendment that gives congress the power to collect taxes.
16th Amendment.
Hearst and Pulitzer rarely let facts get in the way of selling their newspapers and attempting to run the other's newspapers out of business.
Newspaper Wars.
This term came to define the tumultuous years between the Civil War and the turn of the 20th century. During this era, America became more prosperous and saw unprecedented growth in industry and technology.
The Gilded Age.
State and local laws that enforced segregation.
Jim Crow Laws.
Violence erupted as desperate Dakota Indians attack white settlements. The Dakota were eventually overwhelmed by the US military in six weeks. 38 Dakota Sioux were hung and the rest expelled from Minnesota.
Dakota Sioux Uprising.
Amendment that United States Senators will be chosen by the people of their state in elections.
17th Amendment.
This war was fought over Cuban Independence, the Philippines, and Spain's influence in the Americas.
The Spanish-American War.
Market situation where one producer ( or group of producers acting together) controls the supply of a good or service.
A Monopoly.
Governments that wanted to save their states from freedmen and their influence.
Redeemer Governments.
A formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries.
A treaty.
Amendment that banned alcohol in the US.
18th Amendment.
The sinking of this Battleship in Havana Harbor, was blamed on the Spanish and sparked the Spanish-American War.
The USS Maine.
The first federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
US Supreme Court case, verdict issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation.
Plessy VS Ferguson.
One of the most controversial policies of the Bureau of Indian affairs; the decision to educate native children in separate boarding schools.
Indian Boarding Schools.
These organizations worked to ban alcohol in the US.
Temperance groups.
This treaty ends the Spanish-American War, Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam, and ________ Islands?
The Philippines.
A system of taxation in which persons or corporations are assessed at a greater percentage of their income according to their theoretical ability to pay.
Graduated income tax.