Late 19th Century America Test Review

Reconstruction

100

The organization, created during Reconstruction, to help former slaves get housing, education and assistance

Freedman's Bureau

200

Amendment that made owning slaves illegal.

13th

300

Amendment that gave former enslaved people the right to US citizenship 

14th

400

The frequently used name for segregation laws that denied basic rights to black Americans.

"Jim Crow Laws"

500

The KKK was founded in THIS DECADE in THIS STATE by men who served in THIS ARMY

1860s / Tennessee / Confederate

Immigration

100

"give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" comes from this famous American poem

The New Colossus

200

In immigration terms: poverty, religious oppression and famine are:

"__________" factors 

PUSH

300

America's Motto that means "Out of Many, One"

E Pluribus Unum

400

The first targeted immigration restriction in US history, refused entry to people from this nation.

China

500

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 open immigration to these people:

Family members of Immigrants

(Also known as "family reunification") 

The Gilded Age and Industrialization

100

This part of New York City became a symbol of American industrial power during the Gilded Age

The Brooklyn Bridge

200

The rapid growth of cities during the Gilded Age is known by this term.

URBANIZATION

300

The common Gilded Age belief that the strongest people had a right to make the most money and have the most power is called 

"Survival of the Fittest"

or 

"Social Darwinism"

400

This "Captain of Industry" controlled the steel trust

This "Captain of Industry" controlled the oil trust

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

500

The term "Gilded Age" was coined by this American author

Mark Twain

Imperialism

100

The name of Theodore Roosevelt's expansionist foreign policy

The Big Stick

200

The only colonial territory of the late 19th century to ever become a U.S. state

Hawaii

300

The colonial territory that waged a brutal and bloody war against the U.S. occupying forces. 

Philippines

400

The colonial territory that connected two major bodies of water and was viewed as militarily necessary for the US to control

Panama

or 

The Panama Canal Zone

500

Identify THREE colonial territories "lost" by Spain and "gained" by the US as a result of the Spanish-American War

Cuba

Puerto Rico

Dominican Republic

Philippines

(Guam, too)

Miscellaneous

100

Organizations developed to protect the rights of workers during Industrialization

Labor Unions

or

Unions

200

The recruiting slogan of the 2nd wave KKK that reinforced its nationalist agenda

"100% Americanism"

300

The name historians gave to the mostly weak and unknown Presidents of the Gilded Age

"The Forgettables"

or

"The Forgettable Presidents"

400

The World War 2 immigration program that encouraged immigration from Mexico to help the US economy

The Bracero Program

500

Signs that appeared in store fronts to inform Irish immigrants that they would not be considered for employment were known by this acronym

NINA

"No Irish Need Apply"