Founding Ideas
This document begins with “We the People.”
What is the Constitution?
“All men are created equal” became a key quote for later reformers, especially in this movement.
What is abolition or women’s rights?
These groups were created to protect workers and demand better pay and hours.
What are labor unions?
The separation of races in schools, transportation, or public areas.
What is segregation?
Westward expansion caused conflict with this group of people already living on the land.
Who are Native Americans?
The Declaration of Independence was mainly written by this man.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This movement fought to end slavery in the U.S.
What is abolition?
Children often worked long hours in factories doing this kind of work.
What is manual labor or dangerous work?
President Harrison is known for supporting this effort to protect forests and natural lands.
What is conservation?
This term describes the belief that Americans were meant to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to protect these.
What are individual freedoms or citizens’ rights?
The temperance movement wanted to limit or ban this.
What is alcohol?
Immigrants from this country built much of the western railroad.
Who are the Chinese?
These laws enforced segregation in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What are Jim Crow laws?
He famously declared, “I will fight no more forever.”
Who is Chief Joseph?
This founding idea means people have a voice in government.
What is popular sovereignty or democracy?
Frederick Douglass fought against slavery using this form of communication.
What are speeches and newspapers?
A worker who organized for better treatment risked losing this.
What is their job or employment?
This Supreme Court case established the idea of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Cities grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, a trend known as this.
What is urbanization?
This protects freedoms like speech, religion, and due process.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Reformers believed America had to live up to this founding ideal meaning “fair treatment for all.”
What is equality?
This law limited Chinese immigration to the U.S. in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These rights are believed to come from nature or God, not the government.
What are natural rights?
This act forced Native tribes to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?