Foundations
Popular Sovereignty, Populism, and Suffrage all mean. . .
Voting
Settlers moving West often followed this "Trail"
Oregon Trail
rotten
Progressives though things were going to get better. They operated in the early _________.
1900s
A reporter being put in jail for a story she wrote is a violation of which Amendment?
1st
What right did the 15th amendment give to citizens?
The right for African American men to vote.
Which Act gave settlers land for a cheap price if they would go live there?
Homestead Act
The corrupt business model where the company owns all the parts of production.
Monopoly
Progressives wanted to solve the problems of the ________________ Age
Gilded
A gross book about the Meat Packing Industry that helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act
The Jungle
What is the collective name for Amendments 13, 14 and 15?
Reconstruction Amendments
Which 2 immigrant groups helped to build an intercontinental transportation method?
Irish Americans and Chinese Americans
Explain the significance of Jane Addams' Hull House
Sheltered and educated Woman and their children.
Explain one of the following: Recall, Referendum, Initiative.
Recall: Firing a corrupt politician
Referendum: Citizens vote on an issue to see if Congress will vote on it.
Initiative: a Voter puts an issue before Congress
The invention that interfered with large cattle drives and caused fighting between ranchers and farmers
Barbed Wire
What court case is associated with the 5th Amendment right to remain silent?
Miranda
What industry changed from small individual businesses to a factory industry out in the Great Plains during the 1800s?
cattle
The Supreme Court case which enabled Segregation
Plessy v Ferguson
My pictures showed "how the other half lives"
Jacob Riis
The steel process which allowed for stronger and lighter steel for building skyscrapers
Bessemer Process
Name 3 of Alexis de Tocqueville's 5 values (find it)
Populism, Egalitarianism, Liberty, Individualism, Laissez-Faire
Which act forced Native Americans to Americanize (Assimilate) and divided up Reservations?
Dawes Act
Andrew Carnegie's book that described rich people giving back to the community by building libraries and museums, etc.
The Gospel of Wealth
Which Amendment allowed for the direct election of senators?
17th Amendment
What French aristocrat came to the United States to study Democracy in America?
Alexis de Tocqueville