Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction is also known by this name.
What is Radical Reconstruction
Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller used this business strategy to gain a monopoly on the market.
What is horizontal integration?
This political strategy gave the US the mandate to intervene in Latin America if European powers tried to invade or assert influence.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This film helped to spark the rise of the second Klu Klux Klan. It was also screened at the White House.
These statements are usually read at the beginning of events, or on websites, and are increasingly common in higher education as a way to mark the theft of Native American territory.
What are land acknowledgments?
The Amendment that gave black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This group said: "We believe that the power of government—in other words, of the people—should be expanded (as in the case of the postal service) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of experience shall justify, to the end that oppression, injustice, and poverty shall eventually cease in the land."
Who is the Populist Party?
He was Secretary of Navy, leader of the Rough Riders, inspiration for the teddy bear, and the 26th President of the United States
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This controversial theory was not endorsed by Charles Darwin, despite its name.
What is Social Darwinism?
This act broke up reservations and allowed the US government to sell huge amounts of Native American land.
What is the Dawes Allotment Act?
Restrictive laws passed in ex-Confederate states to limit black freedoms.
What are Black Codes
This was the worst workplace disastor in NYC history before September 11, 2001.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This "house" was a place for immigrants to get a cheap meal, take an English class, and more.
What is the Hull House?
This animal, which once roamed the plains in the millions, was all but gone by the 1880s.
What are bison?
He wrote: "To restore measurable peace and quiet to Texas will require, for a long time, that troops be stationed at many county seats, until, by their presence, and aid if necessary, the civil law can be placed in the hands of reliable officers, and executed."
The term used to descibe a monetary system based on both silver and gold.
What is bimetalism?
This US state was annexed by the US after a coup facilitated by sugar planters.
What is Hawaii?
This Progressive Reformer used journalism to try and get anti-lynching legislation passed.
Who is Ida B. Wells
This is where Native American children were sent to be "educated."
What are Indian Boarding Schools?
This period of Reconstruction massively expanded black freedom, but most progress was erased after 1877.
This American author gave the Gilded Age its name.
Who is Mark Twain?
The sinking of this ship kickstarted US involvement in the War for Cuban Indepence/Spanish American War.
the USS Maine.
Because of the implimentation of Jim Crow laws and the high number of lynchings, this is the term used to describe the "low point" of black life in America.
the Nadir
He coined the "Frontier Thesis"
Frederick Jackson Turner