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Reconstruction
Native Americans/Expansion
Urbanization
Progressive Era
Imperialism
100
Fee people had to pay to vote.
What are poll taxes?
100
The most significant food source for Native Americans
What is the buffalo?
100
Growth of cities caused by rise of industry.
What is urbanization?
100
Muckraker and photographer; exposed corruption in society
Who is Jacob Riis?
100
creation of empires to gain economic and political control over weaker nations.
What is imperialism?
200
reading test given to vote
What are literacy tests?
200
Encouraged Native Americans to give up their culture and become American citizens
What is the Dawes Act?
200
Growth of factories to manufacture goods.
What is industrialization?
200
muckraker; author of The Jungle
Who is Upton Sinclair?
200
Built to shorten the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
What is the Panama Canal?
300
Northerners who moved down south to start businesses
What are carpetbaggers?
300
Expanded trade after the Civil War; connected the east coast to the west coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
300
New York City immigration processing station
What is Ellis Island?
300
Established to prevent the formation of monopolies
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust?
300
Purchased from Russia to expand U.S. territory. Many Americans mocked this purchase.
What is Alaska?
400
Legalized segregation between African Americans and whites
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
400
Claimed the government should own the railroad companies; formed due to lack of support from politicians.
What is the Populist Party?
400
company that sells stock to the public
What is a corporation?
400
Influenced the public opinion by exaggerated headlines to sell newspapers.
What is yellow journalism?
400
Annexed due to natural resources, such as sugar cane. Even though annexation by the United States was disliked by the natives.
What is Hawaii?
500
Discriminated against African Americans to prevent them from exercising their rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
500
Forced Native Americans off their lands and slaughtered the buffalo.
What is settler impact on Native Americans?
500
Monopolized the steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
Investigative journalists who wanted to expose corruption in society.
What is a muckraker?
500
Gave foreign nations in China rights to trade, protected United States investments.
What is the Open Door Policy?