Reconstruction
This amendment tried to protect African American voting rights after the Civil War.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This inventor and businessman used the assembly line to make cars faster and cheaper.
Who is Henry Ford?
Main immigration station for Europeans entering the U.S. through New York Harbor.
What is Ellis Island?
Journalists who exposed corruption, unsafe working conditions, and unfair practices.
Who are muckrakers?
Term meaning a country expands its power by controlling other lands.
What is imperialism/Expansionism?
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This poor Scottish immigrant rose to become one of the wealthiest men in America by building a powerful steel empire.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Immigration station that processed many Asian immigrants on the West Coast.
What is Angel Island?
First woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Russia sold this territory to the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867.
What is Alaska?
This group used violence and intimidation to stop African Americans from exercising their rights during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Disaster caused by the collapse of a poorly maintained private dam in Pennsylvania.
What is the Johnstown Flood?
Poverty, war, and religious persecution are examples of these reasons people left their homelands.
What are push factors?
African Americans that stressed the importance of higher Education and demanded immediate equality for black Americans?
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This is the act of officially taking control of another land or territory and making it part of your own country.
What is annexation?
Supreme Court case that allowed segregation by saying facilities could be “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights.
What is a Labor Union?
Catholic saint who helped Italian immigrants with schools, hospitals, and orphanages.
Who is Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini?
President whose “Square Deal” focused on consumers, workers, and businesses.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Explosion of this U.S. ship helped push America into war with Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
Organization created to help formerly enslaved African Americans with education, housing, and jobs.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
A term describing huge companies that controlled entire industries and limited competition.
What are monopolies or trusts?
Term describing opposition to immigrants and favoring native‑born Americans.
What is nativism?
Amendment that finally gave women the right to vote nationwide.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Three territories gained by the U.S. after the Spanish-American War.
What is Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?