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In 1867, Secretary of State Seward accomplished an enduring success in foreign relations for the Johnson administration when he?
What is purchased Alaska from Russia
100
The last major encounter between Native Americans and the U.S. Army. Historical Significance: Remembered today as one of the great injustices perpetrated against Native Americans by the U.S. government.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee
100
President Taft’s policy that American businessmen should invest in underdeveloped countries rather than lend those countries U. S. dollars.
What is Dollar Diplomacy
100
President Theodore Roosevelt supported passage of the Meat Inspection Act largely as a result of this book
What is the Jungle by Upton Sinclair
100
A sensational, often exaggerated style of reporting of the new
What is yellow journalism
200
Outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment
200
The purpose of this act was to weaken tribes, allot land to individual Indians, and promote assimilation.
What is the Dawes Act
200
Provide 3 reasons why the United States declared war on Spain in 1898
What is - Cuban citizens were being put into concentration camps - Yellow Journalism - The explosion of the MAINE - U.S. identified w/ Cubans desire to be independent from a ruler thousands of miles away.
200
Upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
200
This guaranteed equal protection under the law for every American citizen.
What is the 14th amendment
300
Laws passed by Southern states at the end of the Civil War to control the labor, migration and other activities of newly-freed slave and showed that the South sought to keep freemen in an economically dependent and legally inferior status.
What are the Black Codes
300
In accordance to the policies of General Sherman what was the method Americans would use to deal with the “Indian Problem?”
What is Genocide
300
John Hay’s plan that all nations should be granted equal trading rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy
300
Provide an example of a reform to eliminate corruption in the government during the Progressive Era
What is -Initiative -Direct Primary -Referendum -Recall -City councils
300
A supplement to the Monroe Doctrine, it claimed the right of the U. S. to exercise international police power in the Western Hemisphere and intervene in the affairs of Latin American nations.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary
400
Reconstruction agency established to protect the legal rights of former slaves and to assist with their education, jobs, health care, and landowning. – Most of these men ended working as farmers in a sharecropping system.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
400
Describe two ways in which the Railroad influenced the cattle industry in the west.
What is - transporting cattle to markets in the North and the East. - bringing in farmers who fenced the Plains, eventually ending the open-range form of cattle ranching. - helping to make the "long drive" economically feasible.
400
This American naval officer argued that that great empires are based on naval supremacy
Who is Alfred T. Mahan
400
Who were the two African American leaders who argued over the need for immediate equality for African Americans in the early 20th century.
Who are Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. Dubois
400
This company used horizontal Integration, a structure which allowed them to grow tremendously.
What is Standard Oil
500
Denied the president the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by a past president without the advice and consent of the Senate; passed over Johnson's veto and was the reason he was impeached.
What is the Tenure of Office Act
500
A non-fiction book by Helen Hunt Jackson that chronicles the experiences of Native Americans in the U.S.
What is A Century of Dishonor
500
Provide 3 justifications given by those that supported American imperialism in the early 20th century.
What is - Social Darwinism - Competition w/ other nations - Religion - Military strategy
500
A movie by D.W. Griffiths , which Woodrow Wilson showed in the White House and furthered racial prejudice because of the way it depicted blacks.
What is Birth of a Nation
500
The initial Congressional plan for Reconstruction which was vetoed by President Lincoln.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill