Founding Documents
What were the Unalienable rights named by Thomas Jefferson?
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Abolished slavery
Why did the Government support the building of railroad tracks out West?
They wanted to settle the land quickly and turn it into farmland
What Industry did Rockefeller have a monopoly on?
Oil
What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?
Banned Chinese immigrants from coming into the United States
What Philosophical movement inspired the ideas found in the American Revolution?
The Enlightenment
What court case decided that segregation was legal in the US?
Plessy v Ferguson
What was the last battle of the Plains Wars?
The Battle of Wounded Knee
What philosophy believed in the "survival of the fittest" and designated some as "fit" and some "unfit"
Social Darwinism
What is a WASP?
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
What was the Virginia Plan
Representation based on population
Name two strategies used by White Southerners to keep black people from voting.
Literacy Tests, Poll taxes, grandfather clause
What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do?
Gave a free 160 acres to any settlers who promised to farm the land.
Explain Horizontal Integration
When similar companies merge
What did the Pendleton Service Act do?
Made it law that government jobs had to be given out based on merit.
What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 say about slavery in the Northwest Territory?
Slavery would not be allowed in the Northwest territory
What event ended Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
What did the Dawes Act do?
Broke up reservations and gave Native Americans land to farm.
What did the Munn v Illinois case decide?
Government could regulate private businesses
How did Boss tweed rise through the ranks as a firefighter?
By being the best brawler in his company
Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
What group in Congress wanted to punish the South following the Civil War?
Radical Republicans
Name one purpose of the Native American Boarding Schools built by the US government
To destroy Native American culture; to Americanize Native Americans
Who wrote The Jungle?
Upton Sinclair
Who wrote How the Other Half Lived?
Jacob Riis