Spanish/American War
Latin American people wanted what ___________from Spain.
What is freedom?
Right to vote, not denied by race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
An unexplored or unsettled land
What is a frontier?
the giving up of one’s own culture to blend in with the culture of another group
What is assimilation?
An investigative journalist who exposed crime, corruption, and scandal
What is Muckraker?
was formed in response to against African Americans, such as: lynching, race riots,
What is the NAACP?
What is the Populist Party.
What is the People's Party, established after the Grange and Farmer's Alliance failed.
The Spanish & American War lasted how long.
What is 10 years?
Prohibition of liquor.
What is 18th Amendment?
1st to propose a transcontinental railroad, to stretch across the country, requested permission from Congress. Who am I, and why wasn't it built
What is Asa Whitney and Congress couldn't make up their minds where to the line should run?
and set aside for specific American Indian groups
What is reservation?
a crusader for rights • Was a writer and part-owner of a Memphis newspaper • Wrote about against African Americans
What is Ida B. Wells?
believed that: the government could not legislate equality
education hard work, and job skills would raise up African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The Grange
What is an organization formed by Oliver Kelly for the farmers who needed help in the South.
Name of a type journalism that had sensational headlines, exaggerated ,inaccurate stories, and unknown sources.
What is yellow journalism?
Income Tax
What is the 16th Amendment?
The railroad was completed at Promontory, on May 10,1869 .
What is the Golden Spike Ceremony?
The 1st Indian Appropriation Act in 1851 created.
What is reservations for specific American Indian Group, which required tribes to confine them in their border?
Journalist from New York
Wrote :The Jungle
Went undercover to research Chicago meatpacking industry
What is Upton Sinclair?
A founding member of the NAACP
Was against Booker T. Washington accommodation approach
Unhappy with the slow process of inequality
What is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Focused on political actions by forming a set of demands for the government, they hoped to be more successful than the Grange.
What is Farmer's Alliance?
What is the Maine
What is a U.S. ship that had about 260 men aboard that was heading to Cuba.
Women's Right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
After the transcontinental Railroad, what industry grew.
What is the cattle industry/ranching became a big business?
Steps of Assimilation
What is : Give up old culture
: Search for new culture
: Blend in with new culture
Brought down Standard Oil
Investigated the standard oil company for two years
What is Ida Tarbell?
Black Nationalism
Established an identity separate from whites
African American should create a separate nation from whites.
"Back to Africa Movement"
What is Marcus Garvey?
a system in which a farmer rent land from a landowner in return for a share of the farmer’s crop
What is sharecropping?
U.S. was unprepared to fight Cuba, why?
What is old outdated equipment and supplies?
Abolition of slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Passed in 1862, it granted 162 acres of public land to settlers for a small filling fee.
What is The Homestead Act?
Allowed white settlers to claim tribal lands through homesteads
What is the new Indian Appropriation Act of 1889?
Was successful in getting the transcontinental Railroad started?
What is Abraham Lincoln?
Abolitionist and women's right leader
Part of the National Women Suffrage Association
Associated with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Fought for women suffrage
What is Susan B. Anthony?
a system in which farmers and landowners promise to pay creditors in the future out the earnings of the from a future crop
What is Crop-lien?