Westward Expanssion/Settlement
This was the belief that Americans were divinely tasked to settle the West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This compromise was one of the major factors that lead to the Civil War. It had four parts: the Futigive Slave Act, Californa became a Free State, the salve trade ended in Washington DC, and gaven the territories of Utah and New Mexico Popular Sovereignty.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Folliwing the end of the war, the South enacted these specific laws that targeted newly freed African American citizens.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
During the Gilded Age, the second portion of this revolution was in progress.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
During this time period, workers across America banded toghter in these types of groups to fight against low pay, dangerous working condtions, and unfair working hours.
What were Labor Unions/Worker's Unions?
The creation White settlements and the Transcontentintal Railroad caused the displacement of this group of people.
Who were Native Americans?
This president's election was one of the main causes for the South secession from the Union.
Who Abraham Lincoln?
This person was a famous general during the Civil War and as the 18th President of the United States, he fought for the rights of African Americans and to keep peace between the North and South. He was also named after a famous hero Greek Mythology.
Who was Ullysses S. Grant?
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and JP Morgan were extremely wealthy indusrialists that went by this title.
Who were the Robber Barons?
This 52 day long strike occured when wages were cut for the third year in row for railroad workers.
What was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
As the US gained more land from the Mexican Cession, Northerners and Abolitionists were afraid that this instituion would spread across the West.
What was Slavery?
In 1863, this decree by the 16th President of the United States freed the enslaved people of the South, but not the Border States.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Poll Taxes, Grandfather Clauses, and Literacy Tests, were all this type of tactic that white southerners used to stop African Americans from exercising thier right to vote.
What is voter supression?
Immigrants from China, Southern Europe, and Eastern Europe were known as this type of Immigrant due to how different they were then Anglo-Americans.
What were New Immigrants
This steel factory strike turned violent when Henry Frick had the Pinkerton Detective Agency get involved.
What was the Homestead Strike?
This compromise dictated slavery would not be allowed anywhere above the state it was named after.
This act by congress created two new states, gave them popular soveringty, and effectively got rid of the Missouri Compromise. It also led to wide spread conflict, riots, and murder throughout one of the states.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This group was formed by W.E.B Dubois, Ida B. Wells, and other like minded activists to help support African Americans across the United States.
What was the NAACP?
This supreme court case dictated that Segregation was legal on the grounds of "Seperate but equal."
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This book was written by Upton Sinclair, although a work of fiction, depicted the unsanitary working condtions of the meat packing industry and helped to cause widespread reform.
What was The Jungle?
These schools were created to strip the cultural identiy of Native American children in hopes of making them more "Americanized."
What were Indian Schools/Regional Schools?
These 3 Constituional Amendment help to secure the legal freedom, safety, and right to vote for African American following the end of the Civil War.
What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This backroom deal got Rutherford B Hayes elected as President, but is also viewed as the end of Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
In the late 19th Century, William Jennigs Bryan helped to form this short lived political party whose focus was on poor rural farmers.
What was the Populist Party?
Women's suffrage/the right to vote, was granted by this Constituional Amendment in 1920.
What was the 19th Admendment?