Reconstruction
This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the United States.
13th
What was one reason people wanted to move west during the 1800s?
Gold, escape poverty, get land, Manifest Destiny
A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities.
Bessemer Process
Sensational, often exaggerated, news stories.
Yellow journalism
Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings that housed immigrants.
Tenement houses
In 1865, Congress established an agency providing relief for FREEDPEOPLE and certain poor people in the South. What was the name of this agency?
Freedmen's Bureau
How many acres did the Homestead Act give settlers so long as they tended the land for at least 5 years?
160 acres
This person introduced the Model T car in 1908.
Henry Ford
Who was President during the Spanish-American War?
Theodore Roosevelt
The location in New York where immigrants had to check in to the country.
Ellis Island
Laws, or codes, that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.
Black Codes
What were the 3 main jobs during the late 1800s, while people were moving westward?
Farmers, Ranchers, & Miners
Total ownership of a product or service.
Monopoly
In what way did the sinking of the USS Maine hep cause the Spanish-American War?
Americans blamed Spain for sinking the vessel even though there was no direct evidence to back this up. Yellow journalism was a main contributor to this as well.
Neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities to the urban poor.
Settlement houses
This amendment offered people born or naturalized within the United States, citizenship and equal protection of the laws.
14th
The people's perspective that they had a "God-given Right" to move westward and expand is called...
Manifest Destiny
The act where all workers would come together collectively, in the hopes of negotiating with management for higher wages and better working conditions.
Collective Bargaining
What 4 territories did the U.S gain as a result of the Spanish-American war?
Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
Written by Upton Sinclair, this book talked about old meat processing and poor, unsanitary working conditions, including rat feces and men washing their hands with the water used for making sausage.
The Jungle
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th
Types of farms that grew very large and were very profitable during the 1800s were called...
Bonanza Farms
This person invented the first electric lightbulb.
Thomas Edison
What was the name of the Canal built that allowed ships to pass quickly between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans?
Panama Canal
Laws that guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.
Workers' Compensation Laws