Civil War
The belief that U.S citizens should be more loyal to their region than the country itself
What is sectionalism?
This government agency provided education, healthcare, and food to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This belief claimed it was the "god-given" right of the United States to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This economic system is based on private ownership and competition between businesses.
What is capitalism?
This immigration station processed most European immigrants entering the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
This policy used by Theodore Roosevelt encouraged the U.S. to negotiate peacefully but use force if necessary.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
This policy kept the United States out of World War I at the beginning of the war.
What is neutrality/isolationism?
This Union strategy used naval blockades to cut off Southern ports and supplies.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
These laws were created in the South to restrict the rights of African Americans after slavery ended.
What are Black Codes?
This law gave settlers cheap or free land to encourage western settlement.
What is the Homestead Act?
This business practice occurs when one company controls an entire industry.
What is a monopoly? (bonus 100 for naming an example)
This term describes discrimination or prejudice against immigrants.
What is nativism?
This explosion helped push the United States into the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
This German policy involved attacking ships without warning.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare? (bonus 100 if you can name the strategy to overcome this policy)
This compromise admitted California as a free state and established popular sovereignty.
What is the Compromise of 1850? (Bonus 100 if you can define popular sovereignty)
This Reconstruction plan was considered the harshest on the South and demanded full civil rights for freedmen.
What are the Radical Republicans’ Plan?
This railroad connected the eastern United States to the West and increased settlement and trade.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This labor strategy involves workers negotiating as a group for better wages and conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
These journalists exposed corruption and problems in American society during the Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers? (bonus 200 if you can name one of them AND their reform!)
This amendment allowed the United States to intervene in Cuba after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This telegram encouraged Mexico to attack the United States during World War I.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This declaration freed enslaved people in the Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Supreme Court case established the idea of “separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This policy forced Native Americans onto small plots of land and caused a decline in Native culture.
What is the reservation system?
This law was passed to break up monopolies and limit the power of trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
These organizations provided jobs and services to immigrants in exchange for political support and votes.
What are political machines?
This addition to the Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States could intervene in Latin American countries when necessary.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The four M.A.I.N causes of World War 1
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
These three Reconstruction Amendments abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights for African Americans.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
These three methods were used to limit African American voting rights during the Jim Crow Era.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause?
This battle was a major Native American victory against U.S. forces led by General Custer during westward expansion.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn? (bonus 200 if you can name the other 2 native conflicts.)
These two labor unions differed because one accepted only skilled workers while the other accepted skilled and unskilled workers.
What are the AFL and the Knights of Labor?
These two policies attempted to limit Asian immigration to the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What are the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gentlemen’s Agreement?
These three territories were gained by the United States after the Spanish-American War.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
These two laws limited free speech and punished criticism of the U.S. government during World War I.
What are the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act?