Industrialization
Factor that led to the formation of labor unions
What is low pay, long hours, unsafe work conditions, or child labor.
(need only 1 of the above)
Another term that means voting for women
What is woman suffrage?
place where Native Americans were forced to live by the U.S. government; land was usually poor quality
What are reservations?
Another term for segregation laws that separated people on the basis of race
What are Jim Crow laws?
This amendment to the Constitution freed 4 million enslaved people in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
effect of industrialization on agricultural jobs
What is decrease in agricultural jobs?
another term for journalists who exposed the problems in the U.S. that came about because of industrialization
Who are muckrakers?
idea that the U.S. had a "God-given" right to expand from sea to shining sea; motivated westward expansion
What is Manifest Destiny?
tests that black voters had to take in the South that was used to prevent them from being able to vote
What are literacy tests?
This amendment led to voting rights for women (woman suffrage).
What is the 19th Amendment?
This describes how business owners and the U.S. government treated workers when they formed unions and fought for better conditions.
What is violence?
idea promoted by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to protect natural resources for future use
What is conservation?
this act gave 160 acres of land in the West to white families that could build a sucessful farm on the land for at least 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
This early civil rights leader fought against lynching and in favor of women's right to vote.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Allows the people to vote for Senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
idea that the government should be "hands off" of the economy
What is laissez-faire?
name one of the two laws that was passed as a reaction to the book "The Jungle"
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
OR
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
battle where the Sioux won over the 7th Calvary and General George Custer was killed
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
doctrine established by the 1896 Plessy vs. Fergusonson Supreme Court ruling
What is separate but equal?
made alcohol illegal in the U.S.
What is the 18th Amendment?
What kind of organization is being described below?
With Mr. Rockefeller’s genius for detail there went a sense of the big and vital factors in the oil business and a daring in laying hold of them which was very like military genius. He saw strategic points like Napoleon and he swooped on them with the suddenness of a Napoleon. Mr. Rockefeller’s capture of the Cleveland refineries in 1872 was as dazzling an achievement as it was a hateful one.
-Ida Tarbell, McClure’s Magazine
What is a monopoly / trust?
central bank of the U.S.; goal is to stabilize the U.S. economy through the money supply and interest rates
What is the Federal Reserve?
Government act that reduced the size of reservations and divided tribal land among individual Native American families.
What is the Dawes Act?
This civil rights leader promoted college education for African Americans, was a founding member of the NAACP, and famously wrote a book called the Souls of Black Folk.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
repealed the prohibition of alcohol
What is the 21st Amendment?