Reconstruction
This amendment gave citizenship to people born in the United States, which expressly included formerly enslaved African-Americans.
What is 14th Amendment?
African Americans who moved west during and after Reconstruction to escape racism and seek economic opportunities.
What are exodusters?
The key goal for which striking workers fought in the late nineteenth century?
What is an eight-hour workday?
Governed the actions, manners, attitudes, and words of all black people when in the presence of whites. Rose in prominence during the Jim Crow Era.
What is racial etiquette?
The United States was eager to find new markets and military advantages.
What is a reason for imperialism?
A proclamation made by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that all slaves under the Confederacy were from then on “forever free.”
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Act passed by US Congress that gave any adult citizen, or intended citizen, 160 acres of surveyed government land for free.
What is the Homestead Act?
The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
What is the Great Migration?
He aggressively used the Sherman Antitrust Act to attack businesses that hurt the public interest.
What is President Roosevelt as a Trustbuster?
The explosion of U.S.S. Maine and de Lome Letter
What are the causes of the Spanish-American War?
A secret hate group in the southern U.S., which aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of Black people and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assumes the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
What is assimilation?
An agrarian-based political movement aimed at improving conditions for the country's farmers and agrarian workers. Grew out of discontent among farmers who settled the West.
What is the Populist Party?
The political machines gave business leaders who supported them, positions in the government.
What is patronage?
Diplomatic policy established in the late 19th that called for a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial integrity of China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
A member of the Republican Party committed to the emancipation of enslaved people and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks. Believed Reconstruction should be controlled by Congress.
What are Radical Republicans?
A culture that originated from Spanish Ranchers and Mexican vaqueros and was heavily populated by black men and formerly enslaved people.
What are cowboys?
The increase in the development of new uses for natural resources.
What is a factor that helped lead to a period of industrial growth during the late 1800s?
Democracy, Business regulation, social justice
What are focuses of the Progressive movement?
the doctrine that gave the United States the right to involve itself in Latin American affairs whenever necessary.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The term southerners used for northerners who migrated to the South during Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers?
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century)
What are Robber Barons?
The act that resulted directly from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This constitution severely limited native Hawaiians' voting rights, which led to a government takeover by American businessmen
What is the Bayonet Constitution?