The Postbellum South
Laws legalizing racial segregation of African-Americans and whites were enacted in Southern states beginning in the 1880s and enforced through the 1950's.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Many in the US saw it as a natural extension to Manifest Destiny.
What is Imperialism?
This idea stated that it was God's will for the US to conquer the entire continent of America, from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
An Act passed by Parliament in 1765 requiring the colonists to pay a tax on any paper good in order to raise funds to pay for debts from the French & Indian War.
What is the Stamp Act?
A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop that kept African-Americans in poverty after the Civil War.
What is Sharecropping?
The U.S. annexed this future state in 1898 under President McKinley with the support of future President Teddy Roosevelt.
What is Hawaii?
An 1882 Act that banned Chinese immigration into the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A canal in upstate NY which connected the East Coast to the Midwest increasing manufacturing opportunities.
What is the Erie Canal?
A supreme court case in 1896, which established the idea of “separate but equal” where segregation was legal under the law.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
A period during the early 20th century during which Americans grew afraid of a Communist takeover, caused by the Russian Revolution.
What is the Red Scare?
A federal law promoting westward expansion by allotting acres of public land to individual settlers for cheap prices.
What is the Homestead Act?
The transformation of the US economy with a focus on internal manufacturing of goods due to advances in mass production and transformation in the early 1800s.
What is the Market Revolution?
This amendment forbade the states and the federal government to deny suffrage to any citizen on account of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
What is the 15th Amendment?
The policy under President Teddy Roosevelt that the U.S. has the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in the Western Hemisphere through whatever means necessary.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
A political party that emerged in the 1890s gained much support from farmers who turned to them to fight political unfairness and used a progressive platform.
What is the Populist Party (or People's Party)?
The US foreign policy crafted after the war of 1812 which stated any intervention by European powers in the Americas would be considered a hostile act against the US.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
A statue in Charleston of this famous South Carolina pre-civil war politician who argued that slavery was “a positive good" was taken down in 2020.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
A British passenger ship torpedoed by a German submarine in 1915 on its way from the US to the UK. 1,198 passengers and crew were killed, including 128 Americans. Americans were horrified but Germany claimed the ship was carrying weapons and ammunition to Britain
What is the Lusitania?
The Federal Government shifted to this policy towards Indigenous Americans with the use of boarding schools.
What is Assimilation?
A pamphlet written in 1776 by Thomas Paine inspired by Enlightenment ideas which called for the colonists to realize their mistreatment and push for independence from England.
What is Common Sense?