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Settlement of the West
Reconstruction
Imperialism
Big Business
Labor Problems
300

The spiritual movement of the Lakota Native Americans to summon the buffalo (which was almost extinct) and drive away the White Settlers

What is the Ghost Dance?

300

After the Civil War this was made legal under Plessey v. Ferguson.

What is Segregation/Jim Crow

300

The type of Newspaper that exaggerated the horrors of the Spanish to sell more newspapers, convinced many war was necessary

What is Yellow Journalism

300
The king of the Oil Industry during the Industrial Revolution.
Who is John Rockefeller
300
The first major labor union in the United States.
Who are the Knight of Labor
350
The process of "educating" young Native Americans to be more like Christian White Americans, forcing them to go to boarding schools, shave their hair, forbade their religion and language. "Kill the Indian, save the Man"

What is assimilation/Americanization. 

350
An example of violence use by the South to limit African-American's access to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment.
What is the KKK
350

This President became famous as a war hero as a part of the "Rough Riders" down in Cuba during the Spanish-American War

Who is Teddy Roosevelt 

350
An industrialist who got his start in Railroads and then began a career of buying and selling other companies.
What is JP Morgan
350
An example of a conflict between labor and management that took place at Andrew Carnegie's Steel Plant.
What is the Homestead Strike
400

The settlement Westward was made easier because of this achievement of technology, worked on mostly by underpaid immigrant labor.  

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

400
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.
What is Sharecropping
400

This state was once an independent nation, overthrown by US friendly corporations and the US marines. 

What is Hawaii

400
An example of political corruption at the state and local level who exchanged favors for votes.
What are Political Machines
400

The progressive era labor/moralist groups that advocated for the prohibition of Alcohol. 

What is the Temperance Movement
450

Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led resistance against the US Government and defeated Col. Custers forces at the battle of little big horn

Who is Sitting Bull

450

This ended Reconstruction

What is the Compromise of 1877

450
This was a continuation of the Monroe Doctrine, basically saying that the entire Western Hemisphere was the property of the United States. 

What is the  Roosevelt Corollary 

450
An example of the justification of wealth created by a small group of people despite the majority of people living in poverty.
What is Social Darwinism or the Gospel of Wealth
450
An example of a conflict between labor and management that erupted after an 8 day strike and a bomb being thrown into the crowd.
What is the Haymarket Riot
500

The great exodus of the Southern States after the Civil War, many African Americans moved north for work or west to farm. This was known as what.......

What is the Great Migration

500

Describe the Lost Cause myth, why that is dangerous, and why many states still have confederate monuments/flags. 

The Lost Cause myth is a pseudohistorical interpretation of the American Civil War that attempts to portray the Confederacy in a favorable light. The myth was developed by white Southerners after the war to help them cope with defeat and reconcile with the North.

500
Explain the "white mans burden" Poem

The phrase "white man's burden" refers to the idea that white people had a duty to manage the affairs of nonwhite people. In the poem, Kipling argues that Western nations had a moral obligation to bring civilization to less enlightened people in the South and East

500

These two laws were in response to unchecked capitalism and monopolies 

What is the Clayton and Sherman Anti-Trust laws

500

This allowed for federal income tax and a "progressive tax" on income and finally had the richest Americans pay their fair share

What is the 16th Amendment