Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
The muckracker who revealed the unsanitary conditions in meatpacking factories.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This Amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The year that slavery ended.
What is 1865?
An adjective Andrew Jackson would use to describe the Indian Removal Act.
What is generous, necessary, etc.
The crucial ally to ending the American Revolution.
What is France?
Examples: John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan
Who are Robber Barons?
The period after the American Civil War when the United States sought to rebuild and integrate the Southern states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
In the Missouri Compromise, ________ was added as a slave state, and _______ was added as a free state.
Missouri; Maine
An agreement in 1803 between brokered by Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The two parts of Congress.
The House of Representatives and the Senate.
The process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group
What is assimilation?
July 1863 Battle that is known as a turning point in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg or Vicksburg?
An abolitionist who took over an armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
People who faced these problems: Extreme weather conditions, disease, and lack of food and water.
What is travelers on the Oregon Trail? (Though Trail of Tears could also fit)
April 19, 1775
When were the battles of Lexington and Concord?
The belief in promoting the rights and interests of native-born inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
Literacy tests, poll taxes.
What are ways Black men were prevented from voting?
A gathering in 1848 to address women's rights and issue the Declaration of Sentiments.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
Identify 3 of the groups/figures/concepts in the painting "American Progress" (show image)
1. Columbia, the personification of America
2. Pioneers on the Oregon Trail
3. Native Americans running away
4. Buffalo running away
5. Trains
6. Industrialization and the building of cities
The 3 parts of the Constitution.
What are the preamble, the articles, and the amendments?
_______ are the organization of several businesses in the same industry and by joining forces, the trust controls production and distribution of a product or service, thereby limiting competition.
________ are businesses that have total control over a sector of the economy, including prices.
What are Trusts; Monopolies
List four qualifications needed to currently vote in Massachusetts.
Must be 18 years old.
Must register to vote.
Must be a US Citizen.
Cannot be currently incarcerated for a felony.
List at least 3 of the 5 parts of the Compromise of 1850.
California was admitted as a free state.
The remainder of the Mexican cession was divided into the two territories of New Mexico and Utah.
The claim of Texas to a portion of New Mexico was satisfied by a payment of $10 million.
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their masters.
The slave trade was outlawed in the District of Columbia.
1. Agrarian Economy
2. Strong state governments
3. Against the Constitution
4. Against Industrialization
4. Against the National Bank
What are the beliefs of Democratic-Republicans?
List 3 rights in the Bill of Rights
1. Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition
2. Right to keep and bear arms in order to maintain a well regulated militia.
3. No quartering of soldiers.
4. Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
5. Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, double jeopardy.
6. Rights of accused persons, e.g., right to a speedy and public trial.
7. Right of trial by jury in civil cases.
8. Freedom from excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishments.
9. Other rights of the people.
10. Powers reserved to the states.