Period 5
This idea motivated Americans' westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
Name given by Mark Twain to post Civil War period, implied hidden problems.
What is the Gilded Age?
Post-reconstruction governments across the South passed these laws to restrict the rights of African Americans.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling encouraged Americans to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country.
This plan for international cooperation after World War I was rejected by the U.S. Congress.
What is the League of Nations?
This compromise admitted California as a free state, banned the slave trade in DC, and created a new Fugitive Slave Law to be enforced more rigorously.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This movement led to the 18th Amendment.
What is the temperance movement?
This production method led to higher quality steel that was made more efficiently and cheaper.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This statement clarified the United States' interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine and its role in overseeing the affairs of governments in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This sensationalist form of reporting was one factor in motivating Americans to go to war with Spain in 1898.
What is yellow journalism?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe enflamed the debate over slavery. It reinforced many Northerners' views that slave owners were evil AND Southerners' views abolitionists were prejudiced against their way of life.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This 1862 law promoted settlement of of the Great Plains by offering 160 acre parcels of public land free to any person or family that farmed the land for at least five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
A process through which one company takes control of all stages of making its product. Andrew Carnegie used this method to create his steel monopoly.
What is vertical integration?
Group that opposed American intervention in WW2
What is the America First Committee?
The seven Presidents of the United States from 1900 to 1930 (in order).
Who are W. McKinley, T. Roosevelt, W.H. Taft, W. Wilson, W. Harding, C. Coolidge, and H. Hoover?
This Supreme Court Chief Justice wrote the Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857).
Who is Roger Taney?
This farmers' group was organized in 1868 as a social and educational organization that advocated for farmers against middlemen, trusts, and railroads.
The success of this group laid a foundation to later farmers' movements.
What is the National Grange Movement?
A philosophy that helping the poor was misguided because it interfered with the laws of nature and would only weaken the evolution of the species by preserving the unfit.
What is Social Darwinism?
The process in which about 1.6 million people moved from mostly rural areas in the South to northern industrial cities from 1910 to 1940.
What is the (First) Great Migration?
This set of government actions was a response to a series of unexplained bombings and the fear of communism in the Summer of 1919.
What are the Palmer Raids?
This "alternative" state constitution would have admitted Kansas as a slave state. It was supported by Pres. Buchanan but rejected by both Senate Republicans and Kansas' citizens.
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
In 1864, Congressional Republicans passed this bill in response to Lincoln's 10% plan for reconstruction. It would have required 50% of a state's voters to take a loyalty pledge and banned Confederates from voting on a new state constitution. Lincoln pocket vetoed the bill.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
The democratic party's nominee in 1896. His "Cross of Gold" speech energized his campaign, which merged the concerns of farmers and Democrats.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
His United Negro Improvement Association advocated individual pride and Black nationalism. He encouraged Black separatism, economic self-sufficiency, and a back-to-Africa movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This political party's platform included the following:
What is the Populist (or People's) Party?