Louisiana Purchase
This U.S. president authorized the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
Thomas Jefferson
He was president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This place in New York Harbor was the main entry point for immigrants arriving from Europe.
What is Ellis Island?
This group of people lived in North America long before European settlers arrived.
Who are Native Americans?
This 1911 factory fire in New York City led to new laws that improved workplace safety.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States by buying land from this country.
France
Lincoln gave this famous speech in 1863 to honor fallen soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Many immigrants settled in cities and worked in these large buildings where goods were mass-produced.
What are factories?
This English settlement, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Progressive journalists who exposed corruption and problems in society were given this nickname.
What are muckrakers?
This French leader sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. to help fund a war in Europe.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This document, issued by Lincoln in 1863, declared that slaves in Confederate states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This invention by Alexander Graham Bell improved communication during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the telephone?
European settlers often brought these, which caused deadly outbreaks among Native populations.
What are diseases?
Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle exposed unsanitary conditions in this industry, leading to federal reform laws.
What is the meatpacking industry?
The Louisiana Purchase gave the United States control of this important river.
What is the Mississippi River?
Lincoln debated this Illinois senator in 1858 about the issue of slavery.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This businessman led the steel industry and became one of the richest men in America.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This forced relocation of Native Americans in the 1830s led to the deaths of thousands.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This law, passed in 1906, required food and medicine to be labeled truthfully and safely.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
These two explorers were sent to map and explore the new territory after the purchase.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This actor assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Immigrants often lived in these crowded, poorly built apartment buildings in big cities.
What are tenements?
Some Native American tribes lost their land and many people died after the arrival of European settlers.
What are two reasons why this happened?
What are disease and war (or fighting with settlers)?
This African American reformer rejected segregation and demanded immediate civil rights. He helped found the NAACP in 1909 to fight for racial equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois