Gilded Age 1
This term refers to the movement of the economy from the production of handmade goods to machine made goods.
Industrialization
This term refers to intense dislike of foreigners by native born people.
Nativism
The most famous Indian victory in the period after the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Papers like Hearst's New York Journal and Pulitzer's New York World were example of this style of journalism.
What is yellow journalism?
These were reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers who exposed corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications
Who were muckrakers?
Supporters of this idea believed that government should not interfere with the economy
Laissez Faire
This term refers to period when many individuals and families relocated from rural areas of the country to cities, because the cities offered better paying jobs and more.
Urbanization
This broke up the and of nearly all Indian tribes into small parcels to be distributed to Indian families, with the remainder auctioned off to white purchasers.
What is the Dawes Act of 1887?
A United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898.
What is the USS Maine
This reformer was one of the originators of the birth control movement.
Who was Margaret Sanger?
This term refers to railroad entrepreneurs. This term is negative and implies that these individuals had built their wealth by swindling investors and taxpayers.
Robber Barons
This term refers to dark and crowed multi-family apartments.
Tenement
This was a religious revitalization campaign. Its leaders foretold a day when white settlers would disappear, the buffalo would return, and Indians could practice their ancestral customs.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This outlined the role of the United States in Cuba and the Caribbean, limiting Cuba's right to make treaties with other nations and restricting Cuba in the conduct of foreign policy and commercial relations.
What is the Platt Amendment?
New Process of making steel cheaper and faster used by Andrew Carnegie to build skyscrapers.
Bessemer Process
1896 Supreme Court case that said segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities were equal. Became know as the "separate but equal" ruling.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This term refers to an informal political group designed to gain and keep power for a particular party or individual.
Political Machine
This happened in December 1890 when soldiers opened fire on Indians encamped in South Dakota killing between 150-200, mostly women and children.
What is Wounded Knee?
He led Philippine forces first against Spain in the Philippine Revolution (1896–1898), then in the Spanish–American War (1898), and finally against the US.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
This was a movement that influenced Progressives. It held that institutions and policies must be judged by their concrete effects, not their longevity, religious elements, or political beliefs.
In this year, a law barring all immigration from China for 10 years was passed for the first time.
What is 1882?
This word refers to the most famous political machine of all time. William "Boss" Tweed was the leader of this political machine.
Tammany Hall
It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War as people who migrated from states along the Mississippi River in 1879.
What was the Exoduster movement/Kansas Exodus?
In these the SCOTUS found that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the US in the latter part of the 1800s.
What are the Insular Cases?
This authorized Congress to enact a graduated income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?