This president clashed with Congress over how to rebuild the South after the Civil War
Who is Andrew Johnson?
He led the steel industry and practiced vertical integration.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Main entry point for European immigrants on the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island?
This movement aimed to fix social and political problems in America.
What is the Progressive Movement?
The first African American U.S. Senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
Extending control over other countries, often for economic or military gain.
What is imperialism?
This political group wanted harsh penalties for the South and full rights for freedmen.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This act was passed to outlaw monopolies and trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This 1882 law severely limited immigration from one Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Journalists who exposed social ills and corruption were called this.
What are muckrakers?
The amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These two non-contiguous territories were acquired for strategic and economic purposes.
What are Hawaii and Alaska?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Theory that justified wealth inequality by “survival of the fittest.”
What is Social Darwinism?
She founded Hull House and helped poor immigrants in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
This amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
This group used violence and terror to suppress African American rights during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Sensationalist journalism that stirred public support for the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism?
This set of three constitutional amendments—passed after the Civil War—sought to abolish slavery, grant citizenship, and protect voting rights for African Americans.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This agreement ended Reconstruction and led to the removal of federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This labor conflict occurred at Carnegie Steel and turned violent.
What is the Homestead Strike?
Term describing the blending of many cultures into one American identity.
What is the Melting Pot?
Upton Sinclair’s novel that exposed the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
The organization founded to fight for African American civil rights.
What is the NAACP?
Teddy Roosevelt’s cavalry unit that fought in the Spanish-American War.
Who are the Rough Riders?
Southern laws that restricted the rights of newly freed African Americans.
What were Black Codes?
This type of business strategy involved buying out competitors.
What is horizontal integration?
These overcrowded and unsanitary buildings were common in urban slums.
What are tenements?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This Supreme Court decision upheld racial segregation with “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This U.S. policy allowed intervention in Latin American affairs to protect U.S. interests.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?