American Foundations
In the House of Representatives, the number of reps is based on ____________.
The House of Reps is part of Congress and belongs to the _____________ branch.
population
Legislative
This was the name of the forced journey that people who were captured and enslaved had to take from Africa to North America
Middle passage
This political event was the last straw for several Southern slave states and triggered their secession, starting with South Carolina
The election of Lincoln in 1860
Old immigrants were generally from Northern and Western Europe. New immigrants were generally from these areas.
Southern and Central Europe
Secretary of State John Hay called this a "splendid little war" because within a year, the US controlled Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
Spanish American War (1898)
The amendments in this section of the Constitution protect citizens from the government from getting too powerful
Bill of Rights
Temperance reform of the mid-1800s led to the eventual passage of the of the ________ amendment, which banned the sale/manufacture/transport of alcohol
18th
This amendment abolished slavery
13th
Using horizontal integration to buy up all the other oil companies and eliminate competition, John Rockefeller was known as a Robber Baron in this industry.
oil
Rich businessmen forced a US takeover of this formerly independent nation, located in the Pacific and not only a source of income, but also a place for the US Navy to keep ships.
Hawaii
Two pieces of advice that George Washington gave the nation in his 1796 Farewell Address
1. Avoid foreign affairs
2. Avoid political parties
The Market Revolution sparked explosive economic growth in the US through the invention of new technology like:
steam engine, steam boat, railroad, canals, steel plow
This Reconstruction-era president was very forgiving to the South, putting lots of former Confederates back into power and returning land to enslavers.
Andrew Johnson
In the big strikes of the late 1800s, the federal government sided with (choose one): the workers or the bosses.
bosses
The Progressive Era came to an end because of
WWI
A prominent Federalist, this man was our first secretary of the Treasury and came up with the Financial Plan for the new nation.
Alexander Hamilton
This feat of engineering was completed in Utah in 1869, displacing countless Native Americans and making the companies that made it the largest landholders in the nation.
Transcontinental Railroad
On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued _____________________, which freed enslaved people in all rebelling areas, but not in border states because he needed to keep them in the Union.
This is the name for journalists who exposed wrongdoing in business/industry/politics in the late 1800s
muckrakers
Nativism led to the passage of this act, vastly diminishing the number of immigrants from Asia.
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Before the Constitution, the US was governed by this document. It was replaced because it was too weak at the national level and the states were not very united.
Articles of Confederation
This Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a federal territory. This decision moved the nation a step closer to the Civil War.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877 because:
federal troops were removed from the South and no one was left to enforce the federal laws
Upton Sinclair's description of meatpacking factories in his book The Jungle led the federal government to pass this law
Meat Inspection Act
This was a three-way presidential election in which Taft and T. Roosevelt split the Republican vote and Woodrow Wilson emerged victorious for the Democrats
Election of 1912