Unit 1 - Geography / Reconstruction
Name 1 state in the Northeast Region of the United States.
What is Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, or Vermont?
This form of transportation system grew rapidly and played a major part in this westward expansion. It was completed in 1869.
What is the first Transcontinental Railroad?
This is the term used to describe a change from producing items by hand to producing items using machines.
What is the industrial revolution?
These were individuals who controlled corrupt organizations that controlled the politics of the time.
These Political Machines helped immigrants that came to the United States. In return, the immigrants voted these individuals into power.
What are Political Bosses?
This is a term for when a country extends its power and influence over other countries or territories.
During this time, expansionists argued that the United States needed new markets for foreign trade.
What is Imperialism?
Name 1 major city in the Midwestern Region of the United States.
What is Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Kansas City, Minneapolis, St. Louis, or Omaha?
This piece of legislation gave 160 acres of land to anyone who was willing to move out west and improve the land for at least 5 years (in 1862).
What is the Homestead Act?
Detroit, Michigan was known for which industry during the Industrial Revolution?
What is the automobile industry?
This labor union represented skilled workers such as plumbers, carpenters, bricklayers, and machinists.
Its president and founder, Samuel Gompers, organized many different skilled labor unions into one large federation of unions.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This is a form of journalism that prioritizes sensationalism over facts. This form of journalism was used in the lead up to the Spanish/American War.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This term refers to the period (1865-1877) following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of effort to restore southern states to the union.
What is reconstruction?
These were attempts that were made to integrate American Indians into white culture.
What is assimilation?
These are factors that force immigrants to leave their homelands.
What are push factors?
Such as... Disease, Famine, Harsh government (lack of freedom), Violence/Crime/War
This person was the 27th President of the U.S.
This president worked to end corruption in government and business.
He continued to disband large corporations that were corrupt. (Monopolies.)
Who is William Howard Taft?
The United States also forced Cuba to accept this Amendment, which gave the United States the right to intervene in Cuba and control of the naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This plan stated that as long as 10% of the voting population took an oath of allegiance to the U.S., the northern states would welcome these states back into the Union.
What is the Lincoln Plan?
When gold was discovered, the U.S. is going to ignore treaties made between the US and Native Americans. As a result, there was a battle fought between these two sides in which the United States military is defeated by the Lakota Sioux Tribe. (June 25, 1876)
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This is the term for a group of powerful men who arose during the Industrial Revolution and controlled (monopolized) their respective industries.
What are the Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?
On August 18, 1920- this Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was passed giving women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is the building up of the military in a country. Many countries began making their militaries very strong so they could protect their colonies and increase the size of their countries.
What is Militarism?
Southern Democrats pushed for laws that restricted African-American freedom and took away many of the rights gained during Reconstruction. They became known as:
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The US Government forces American Indians from their traditional lands. When resources were discovered on that land, they were forced to move again. The name of the land they were forced to move to is called.
What is reservations?
These are factors that make immigrants want to move to new lands, countries, or cities.
What are pull factors?
In the late 1800s and early 1900s we begin to see discrimination take the form of a certain set of laws and Segregation (the separation of people, usually based on race or religion).
What are Jim Crow Laws.
This telegram was to Mexico in 1917. This telegram told Mexico that if they helped in the war that Germany would then help Mexico regain lands it lost to the United States in the Mexican War. This angered the United States and it made it impossible for us to remain neutral.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?