Westward Expansion
What was the event where the U.S. military massacred Native Americans in 1890?
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
What laws were designed to enforce racial segregation in the southern United States?
What are Jim Crow Laws?
hat was one of the major effects of industrialization on American cities?
What is urban overcrowding
What secret society was formed to promote white supremacy and terrorize African Americans after the Civil War?
KKK
Which technology, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, revolutionized communication?
Phone
What law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands?
What is the Dawes Act?
This law allowed the U.S. government to survey and divide Native American tribal lands into individual plots.
Dawes act
what was the first type of organization created to protect workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution?
What are labor unions?
What was the legal basis for segregation, upheld by the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?
What is "separate but equal"?
This type of transportation was key to moving goods and people quickly across the expanding United States.
Train
What was a major driving force behind the demand for cowboys in the 1800s?
What is the demand for beef?
What type of rule determined a person’s race based on having any African ancestry?
One drop rule
Which economic policy emphasizes minimal government intervention in the economy?
What is laissez-faire economics?
This phrase represents the post-Civil War promise made to former enslaved African Americans, granting them land and the means to cultivate it, though it was later revoked.
What is "40 acres and a mule"?
What invention made mass production of goods possible in factories?
Assembly Line
This event involved the U.S. Army attacking a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in 1864.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
Passed in 1862, this act granted 160 acres of public land to settlers for a small fee, encouraging the westward movement of Americans and immigrants.
Homestead Act
This was a proccess marked by the rapid expansion of factories, railroads, and large businesses.
industrialization
What social system emerged in the southern United States that enforced racial segregation and inequality after Reconstruction?
What is racial segregation?
The introduction of this mode of transportation dramatically changed both travel and shipping in the water
Steamboat
he U.S. government’s policy toward Native Americans aimed to mesh them into American society. What was this policy called?
What is assimilation?
What was the series of laws that aimed to limit the rights of African Americans after the Civil War?
What are the Black Codes?
What term refers to the movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North during this period?
What is the Great Migration?
This ideology promoted the belief that white people were superior to people of other races and was a key driving force behind the actions of groups like the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1800s
White Supremecy
: What innovation allowed for more people to live in crowded urban areas during the late 1800s?
Skyscrapers