American Founding
The document that established the 2nd government of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
Used to communicate and send messages easier.
What is the telegraph?
The growth of businesses that manufacture products through the use of machinery.
What is industrialization?
This book exposed the meat packing industry.
What is Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"?
The constitutional amendment that creates an income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
The document that separated America from English rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Law that gave land away to settlers who farmed.
What was the Homestead Act?
The name of the US Supreme Court case that approved segregation, saying "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
The former president who formed the Progressive/Bull Moose Party.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
The 1st president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
The first reason white settlers traveled to California.
What was the Gold Rush?
The French term that means the government should not interfere with business or the economy.
What is "laissez-faire"?
Prohibited monopolies and also made strikes and boycotts legal.
What was the Clayton Anti-trust Act?
The constitutional amendment that ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The document that established the first government for the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The forced relocation of Native Americans from their homelands to Indian territory.
What was the Trail of Tears?
This Gilded Age law prevented the immigration of a group of people into the United States.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Puts a potential law on a ballot for citizen voting - to allow for public approval or rejection.
What is a referendum?
The constitutional amendment that guarantees free speech and freedom of religion.
What is the 1st Amendment?
The state in which the Civil War started.
What is South Carolina?
The location where the "golden spike" was driven.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
The inventor who created a way to get electricity into homes and businesses.
Who was Thomas Edison?
Published a photo journal called "How the Other Half Lives."
Who was Jacob Riis?
The president who completed the Louisiana Purchase.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?