Colliding Worlds & Birth of a Nation
These two groups of people were enslaved by Europeans in order to provide labor for the growing colonies.
Who are Africans and Native Americans?
This 19th century reform movement sought to end slavery in the United States.
What is the abolitionist movement?
This white supremacy organization used political violence to disenfranchise African Americans and southern Republicans, ensuring Democratic Party victories in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This term describes the period from about 1870-1890, which was characterized by unprecedented wealth and prosperity, as well as corruption and inequality.
What is the Gilded Age?
This term was used to describe a series of mental disorders developed by soldiers who experienced combat during World War I.
What is "shell shock"?
The five original Wabanaki tribes.
Who are the Mikmaq, Maliseet, Abenaki, Penobscot, and Passamaquoddy?
These three technological revolutions resulted in the growth and expansion of the United States during the 19th century.
What are the industrial, Transportation, and Communication Revolutions?
What are push and pull factors?
This term describes the period from about 1890-1920, which was characterized by reform that sought to eliminate unethical and unfair business practices, reduce corruption, and counteract the negative social effects of industrialization.
What is the Progressive Era?
These four underlying factors resulted in tensions that ultimately led to World War I.
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technology between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This ideology influenced westward expansion, Indian removal, and imperialism in the 19th century.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This amendment to the Constitution defined the concept of birthright citizenship, extending citizenship and "equal protection under the laws" to formerly enslaved African Americans.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This racial caste system consisted of laws and etiquette that oppressed African Americans by denying them equal rights and segregating them from white Americans.
What is Jim Crow?
This treaty formally ended World War I and included terms that forced Germany to take responsibility for the war, reduce its military, surrender its African colonies, and pay $33 billion in reparations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This term describes Great Britain's unofficial policy toward its American colonies prior to the American Revolution.
What is salutary neglect?
This historical event resulted in the removal of 60,000-70,000 Native Americans, including the Cherokee, to territory west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This famous novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe explored the horrors of slavery and was the second-best-selling book of the 19th century in America, second only to the Bible.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This word describes a common 19th-century attitude toward immigration that prioritized the rights and interests of native-born Americans over those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
This act extended the rights of citizenship to all Native Americans.
What is the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924?
This proclamation placed a bounty on Penobscot men, women, and children.
What is the Phips Bounty Proclamation?
This European intellectual and philosophical movement influenced the American Revolution and the creation of the United States government.
What is the Enlightenment?
This act ended the United States's recognition of tribal sovereignty, ending treaty making between Native American tribes and the United States government.
What is the Indian Appropriations Act of 1871?
This infamous political boss ran New York City's Tammany Hall political machine from 1868 until his arrest on charges of embezzlement in 1873.
Who was Boss Tweed?
These two acts eroded civil liberties during World War I, resulting in the imprisonment of American citizens who obstructed conscription or spoke out against the war effort, military, or government.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?