What was the main pattern of migration during the Industrial Revolution?
Rural to urban.
100
What were the Jim Crow laws?
Segregation laws.
100
Why was the purchase of Alaska significant?
It had oil, timber, and natural resources.
100
When was World War I?
1914-1918
200
What was the Compromise of 1877? Why is this significant?
Northern troops were removed from the South.
Significant because it ended Reconstruction.
200
Name three reasons immigrants left their homelands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Religious persecution, political persecution, famine, land shortages, growing European population.
200
What did the Pure Food and Drug Act do?
Required truth in labeling.
200
What three territories did the U.S. receive as a result of the Spanish-American War?
Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico.
200
What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
Laws that said that you could not speak out against the government during World War I.
300
What was the purpose of the Dawes Act?
"Americanize" the Native Americans
300
What was the Gentleman's Agreement?
Deal with Japan to limit Japanese emigration. Japan agreed to limit emigration in return for U.S. repeal of segregation.
300
What was the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson? Why is this significant?
Ruling: Separate-but-equal does not violate the Constitution.
Significance: Jim Crow laws are legal.
300
What are the two reasons that the U.S. entered World War I?
Zimmerman Note and unrestricted submarine warfare.
300
Name three methods that were used to keep African-Americans from voting.
Poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause.
400
What was sharecropping?
Land was divided and former slaves worked a portion of it. When crops were harvested, sharecroppers gave a portion of their crops to the landowners.
400
What was the Americanization movement?
Assimilate immigrants into main culture through schools and community centers that were established to teach citizenship skills, English, and American etiquette.
400
What was the Square Deal?
Teddy Roosevelt's progressive reforms.
400
What was the Great Migration?
Large-scale migration of Southern blacks to the North during the era of World War I.
400
What terms of the Treaty of Versailles specifically affected Germany?
Humiliated Germany, war-guilt clause, $33 billion in reparations.
500
What was the intention of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction?
Plot against former slaves to keep them from voting. Used terror tactics such as lynchings and whippings to halt Reconstruction.
500
What was a political machine? What was the role of the political boss?
Political machine was a group that controlled all aspects of a city's political party. The political boss controlled access to city jobs, influenced courts, arranged building and community projects.
500
How did Roosevelt use the "bully pulpit?"
Used it to get reforms passed.
500
What was Manifest Destiny?
Belief that the U.S. was destined to take over North America.
500
Who were the Exodusters?
Former slaves that moved from the South to the West.