Progressivism
What term describes journalists who exposed corruption to create reform?
Muckrakers
What is imperialism?
When a stronger country takes over a weaker country for economic and political gain
Railroads were an important part of Westward expansion because...
What is they connected different parts of the country, making it easier to relocate and travel?
Most urban working-class families lived in multifamily apartment buildings called...
What are tenements?
What problem did the period of Reconstruction attempt to solve?
What is rebuilding the country after the Civil War?
What was the main goal of the Progressive Movement?
To improve poor conditions in society
What argument did anti-imperialists make against U.S. expansion?
Imperialism is morally and ethically wrong
Regarding Native Americans, the policy of Americanization was meant...
What is to force Native Americans to adopt white American culture and values?
Which policy best reflect the idea of laissez-faire?
What is a domestic policy that involves little interference from the U.S. government?
What did the case Plessy v. Ferguson legalize and establish?
What is segregation and "separate but equal?"
What book exposed poor living conditions in American tenements?
How the Other Half Lives
The Open-Door policy of the late 1800s refers to a policy that...
What is allowed countries to trade with China?
What was the conflict between Native Americans and the U.S. Army discussed in class?
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
One of the major effects of urbanization in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was…
What are the growth of cities and the rise of tenements?
The poll tax and grandfather clauses were used to...
What are stop African Americans from voting?
Booker T. Washington believed the primary goal of African Americans should be...
What is achieving economic equality?
A protectorate is...
What is a state that is controlled and protected by another?
Why did westward expansion increase conflict between the U.S. government and Native Americans?
What is the government tried to force Native Americans to relocate to reservations?
Define and explain horizontal and vertical integration.
What is horizontal integration: Buying out other companies and corporations that make similar products.
What is vertical integration: Owning all aspects of production (think of it like a ladder).
Define and explain the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
13th Amendment: Abolished slavery.
14th Amendment: Establishes birthright citizenship
15th Amendment: Allows all MEN to vote regardless of skin color.
How did progressive era reforms impact American society?
What is they made workplaces and environments safer?
How did Hawaii become a U.S. territory?
What is Hawaii was ANNEXED by the U.S. military for their sugar plantations? The power was SIEZED from Queen Liliuokalani.
Provide 2-3 reasons why American settlers wanted to move out West.
What is...
1. The gold rush?
2. Opportunities for land?
3. Mining jobs
4. Ranching jobs
5. The Dawes Act and allotments
Political machines maintained power in cities by...
What is providing jobs to recent immigrants in exchange for votes?
What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
What is helping formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom?