Reconstruction
This amendment ended slavery in the United States
13th Amendment
The main goal of the Americanization movement was to do what?
Assimilate people of various cultures into the dominant culture
These people provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States.
Muckraker
The United States gained control of the land it needed to build the Panama Canal by...?
Encouraging and supporting Panamanian independence
Franz Ferdinand
This person pushed for a lenient path for the South to be readmitted back into the Union pushing for policies like the 10% Plan
Abraham Lincoln
146 women died in this factory tragedy because there were no safety exits
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
What did Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle, expose?
Unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry
This called for a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial integrity of Qing China
Open-Door Policy
What was a result of the Selective Service Act?
Men were required to register for military service
This amendment allowed African Americans the right to vote
15th Amendment
How did Laissez-Faire capitalism negatively impact society?
This amendment allows for direct election of senators by the people
17th Amendment
What war ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1898?
Spanish-American War
What was the name of the British ship that German U-boats sank?
Lusitania
This granted Americans 160-acre plots of public land for the price a small filing fee.
Homestead Act
Who organized the Industrial Workers of the World?
Radical unionists and socialists
He was known as the “trustbusting” President
Theodore Roosevelt
What was included in the DeLome Letter?
Criticisms of McKinley
What reason did Senators give for opposing U.S. membership in the League of Nations?
It would drag Americans into European conflicts
Laws in the South created different sets of rules for African Americans and Whites in the South as well as rules for etiquette in the South as well
Jim Crow
Vertical integration, a business strategy used by steel mogul Andrew Carnegie, involves what?
Buying out raw material producers and distributors
In the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled what?
Racial segregation in public facilities was legal
What did the United States insist that Cuba include in its constitution?
Platt Amendment
The most compelling reason for the U.S. to enter World War I was?
The outrage of American citizens over the sinking of the Lusitania and German submarines sinking ships