Reconstruction
The war that ended shortly before Reconstruction began
The Civil War
The purchase of French land nearly doubled the size of the U.S. and led to american expansion westward
Louisiana Purchase
American inventor of over 1,000 patents including the power plant
Thomas Edison
An economic system in which private businesses run most industries
Capitalism
The practice of extending a nation's power by gaining territories (extroverted country)
Imperialism
The act of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public official
Impeachment
The belief that is was America's right to expand across to the Pacific
Manifest Destiny
A number of companies legally grouped together under a single board of directors
Trust
A workplace accident that took the lives of 146 workers
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Event that sparked public outcry in the U.S. for military intervention in Cuba
Sinking of the USS Maine
This individual was a Confederate sympathizer who assassinated President Lincoln in Ford's Theatre
John Wilks Booth
A railway system that connected the East and West coasts
Transcontinental Railroad
A process developed in the 1850s that made it faster and cheaper to make steel
Bessemer Process
A procedure that allows voters to approve or reject a law proposed or passed by the government
Referendum
Resolution promising Cuba the U.S. had no interest in their land
Teller Amendment
A reconstruction plan stating only 10 percent of voters in former Confederate states needed to be loyal to the new state government for them to be readmitted into the Union
The 10-Percent Plan
The U.S. Army's killing of 150 Sioux in South Dakota
Massacre at Wounded Knee
A society based on Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection
Social Darwinism
Constitutional amendment that outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S.
Eighteenth Amendment
American army commander who led an expeditionary force in Mexico to find and capture Pancho Villa
John J Pershing
The first African American to hold office in the U.S. Senate
Hiram Revels
African Americans who settled western lands in the late 1800s
Exodusters
Founder of the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Leader of the Industrial Workers of the World
William "Big Bill" Haywood
The addition to the Monroe Doctrine establishing America as a international police power and new debt collector to Latin America
Roosevelt Corollary