Reconstruction
What was the legal separation between blacks and whites in public places?
Segregation/Jim Crow Laws
What was the method of production where parts move on a conveyor belt while workers stay in one place, doing the same task over and over?
The Assembly Line
What is Immigration?
The movement of people to a place where they are not native born citizens
What were the impacts of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Connects the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
Time zones
Expansion of cities and towns
Growth of industries like coal and steel
What were the two events that encouraged the United States to join World War I?
Sinking of the Lusitania (Unrestricted Submarine Warfare)
The Zimmerman Telegram
What were the three main laws of the Black Codes?
Literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather clauses
Granted women the right to vote (Women's suffrage)
What is a Nativist?
A person who wants to preserve America for native-born white people
What was the belief that it was the responsibility of European colonizers to "civilize" and help people in other parts of the world?
White Man's Burden
What was the 18th Amendment?
The ban on sale, production, and consumption of alcohol (Prohibition)(1919)
What amendment is outlined in the excerpt above?
"Neither Slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
13th amendment
What are the 4 parts of Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal?
Conservation, Trustbusting, Consumer Protection, Foreign Policy
What is the process of becoming part of a new culture and leaving one's old culture behind?
Assimilation
What was the Homestead Act?
Granted 160 acres of free land to a settler who agreed to live on the land for 5 years.
What was the Treaty of Versailles and its impacts?
The peace treaty that ended World War I. Forced Germany to take full blame for the war. Demilitarization and gave its colonies. Pay $33 billion in reparations. Left Germany in chaos and vulnerable. Lead to the rise of Adolf Hilter and the Nazis
What Supreme Court case that established the doctrine of "separate but equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who paid low wages, used unfair tactics to beat their competitors and didn't care about wasting natural resources?
Robber Barons
What law limited immigration to 3% of the total of number immigrants that arrived from the country in 1910?
The Emergency Quota Act
What is this an example of?
"Spanish Authorities Butcher Innocent Cubans"
Yellow Journalism
How did the Sacco and Vanzetti case highlight the widespread fear during the Red Scare?
It highlighted how fear can sometimes override justice, and that political beliefs shouldn't determine guilt.
What government agency was created during Reconstruction to help former slaves and poor whites?
The Freedman's Bureau
What was the law that any business trust that limited trade between customers and other companies is illegal?
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What is Cultural Pluralism?
Also known as the Salad Bowl Theory, Native language spoken at home, families observe traditional customs and holidays-keep native culture alive. May live in ethnic neighborhoods surrounded by others from the same place
What was the Roosevelt Corollary(The Big Stick Policy)?
The US will act as a region's "policemen," intervening in Latin America affairs whenever it was necessary to maintain stability.
What was the significance of Schenck v. The US?
1st amendment or Freedom of speech is not absolute. If your words put others or the nation in danger ("Clear and Present Danger"), your rights may be limited.