CW/Reconstruction
This side of the Civil War was largely agricultural and produced thousands of bushels of tobacco, cotton, and other goods that were sold around the world.
The South
a place that grew quickly to serve the needs of the miners and just as quickly turned to ghost towns
boomtowns
Created to outlaw monopolies and protect consumers.
The Sherman Anti-trust act
Name 2 colonies/holdings the Americans gained in the age of Imperialism
Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, Alaska, Hawaii, Panama Canal
This side was victorious in WWI
What is a style of fighting that involves attacking the enemy's resources, army, & people?
Total War
Railroad that helps travel and trade reach the western frontier
Transcontinental Railroad
Takes advantage of the public in order to get rich
What is a Robber Baron
This event led to the start of WWI in Europe
What is The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Act that allowed Americans to claim western lands for farming
The Homestead Act
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, which was created in 1865 to ease Black peoples' transition from slavery to freedom
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
To become part of a group. Native Americans were forced to assimilate to American Lifestyles and abandon their cultures. This destroyed their cultures and ways of life.
What is assimilate/assimilation?
This was the first symbol for immigrants to see at Ellis Island
What is the Statue of Liberty
What did Americans have to do during the war on the Homefront?
Name 2
Work in factories/Get drafted/enlist/ration food, supplies
Conflict in 1898 marking the U.S.'s entry into global conflicts, including involvement in the Philippines and Cuba.
What is the Spanish American War?
Made Slavery Illegal
What is the 13th Amendment
Belief in the divine mission for Americans to expand across the continent and beyond.
What is Manifest Destiny?
company in control of all or almost all of an industry
Monopoly
the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
What is the Treaty of Versailles
1887 law that divided land owned by Native American tribes, giving pieces of it to individual Native Americans for farming.
What is the Dawes Act
This speech was given by the 16th president of the United States to honor soldiers.
Gettysburg Address
Native Americans were forced to live here and farm like the "white man"
Reservations
reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist pu
What are Muckrakers?
legislation that required millions of men to register for the draft
What is the Selective Service Act
book written by Jacob Riis to show the problems of city life, in particular conditions in the tenements.
What is How the Other Half Lives?