Westward Expansion
This belief said it was America's destiny to expand west across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Conflicts happened because settlers moved onto this land that Native Americans depended on.
What are the Great Plains?
This policy warned European countries not to create colonies in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This movement worked to fix problems caused by industrialization and unfair conditions.
What is the Progressive Movement?
Millions of people moved to the U.S. in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is immigration?
This railroad connected the East and West coasts of the United States in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This Lakota leader fought to protect Native American land during battles with the U.S.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This war in 1898 helped the United States gain territories like Puerto Rico and Guam.
What is the Spanish-American War?
These laws in the South enforced racial segregation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Many immigrants worked long hours for low pay in these places.
What are factories?
These settlers moved onto the Great Plains and claimed land through the Homestead Act.
What are homesteaders?
This famous battle in 1876 was a Native American victory against U.S. soldiers led by General Custer.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This canal built by the U.S. connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This movement saw many African Americans move north for better jobs and fewer restrictions.
What is the Great Migration?
Children were often hired to work long hours in dangerous jobs.
What is child labor?
This law forced many Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Many Native Americans were forced to leave their homes and move west in this tragic journey.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This economic idea says prices change depending on how much people want something and how much exists.
What is supply and demand?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Workers formed these groups to fight for better pay and safer conditions.
What are labor unions?
This system moved Native Americans onto specific lands set aside by the government.
What is the reservation system?
This conflict happened when settlers, railroads, and the army pushed Native Americans off their land.
What are the Indian Wars?
An example of a major invention from this time that improved communication.
What is a telephone?
This was the long struggle for equal rights for African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Many immigrants lived in crowded city housing called these.
What are tenements?