Civil War/Reconstruction
This book, published in 1853, was published by Harriet Beecher Stowe to expose the evils of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This belief, which was that the U.S. should expand from coast to coast, was believed by many as "God's will to move west"
What is Manifest Destiny?
Jacob Riis, who wrote How The Other Half Lives and Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Jungle were these types of people, who exposed the problems of society to the public
What were muckrakers?
William Seward bought this state for 7.2 million dollars, in what was famously called "Seward's Folly"
What was Alaska?
This event in the Roaring 20s was when there was many African American contributions to the new American Culture
What was the Harlem Renassiance?
In a landmark Supreme Court case, this man sued for his freedom from slavery and lost
Who was Dred Scott?
In the Great Plains, this animal was used by Native Americans in many aspects of life, it was also "native" to the land
What is the Buffalo?
This "ism" was the idea of not liking/having immigrants in the United States, with them not belonging in the country since they just moved
What is nativism?
The United States "Open Door Policy" was to keep trade open between the U.S. and this country
What is China?
Because of the 18th amendment, this was banned in America after the Temperance Movement finally got it's goal after several decades, however the consumption of it got repealed with the passage of the 21st amendment just over a decade later
What is Alcohol?
If President Lincoln was not assassinated, this specific plan that he made would have gone into affect during Reconstruction
What was the 10% plan?
This type of business technique was used by big companies to buy out their competitors, which created trusts
What is horizontal integration?
When Teddy Roosevelt was president of the United States, he passed this deal, which had regulations on products so that they can be safe for consumers
What was the Square Deal?
This ideology was when people called for freedom and self-government, which was used heavily at the start of the World War I
What is nationalism?
On October 29th, 1929, the stock market crashed because there were no buyers, there were only just sellers, which was the main reason that the aforementioned date above was called this
What was Black Tuesday?
The Reconstruction amendments provided rights for African Americans, until it briefly stopped during this time period
What was the 1950s?
in 1887, this law broke up Native American reservations and it divided land between individuals, and heads of families
What is the Dawes Act?
Yellow journalism, which was a common practice for newspapers in the Progressive Era, typically reported more of this, instead of news
What are scandals?
During World War I, this act's purpose was to require young men to be drafted for the military draft
What is the selective service act?
Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and convicted because they apparently did these two crimes, but there was no evidence of them doing the crime
What is robbery and murder?
The Compromise of 1877, which ended Reconstruction, was significant because it let this man become president when he lost the election
Who was (Rutherford) Hayes?
Since Labor unions did not get good working conditions, this type of bargaining was used by them to put pressure on a business to fix their problems
What was collective bargaining?
What was Tammany Hall?
The assassination of this prominent figure in Austria was known as "the spark of WWI"
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
When he was convicted of bribery as Secretary of the Interior, he made significance by becoming the first government official to be convicted of a crime while in office
Who was (Albert) Fall?