Civil War
This issue was the main cause of sectional tension between the North and South.
Slavery
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This group was most negatively affected by westward expansion.
Who are Native Americans?
Andrew Carnegie was known for this industrial product
What is Steel?
This style of combat was found in WWI, often resulting in illness, rats, and hardship.
What is trench warfare?
This is what many southern states argued for when it came to making their decision on slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty
This government agency helped formerly enslaved people with jobs, education, and aid.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Name one cause of conflict between settlers and Native tribes.
What is competition for land or resources?
These powerful business leaders controlled monopolies and large corporations.
Who are industrialists or Robber Barons?
This belief justified U.S. expansion by claiming American superiority.
What is nationalism?
Name one advantage the Union had during the Civil War.
What is more industry, railroads, population, or resources?
These laws were designed to restrict African American freedoms after the war.
What are Black Codes?
This belief justified westward expansion by claiming it was America’s destiny to spread west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This debate questioned whether big business leaders helped or harmed society.
What is Robber Barons vs. Captains of Industry?
Name one overseas area the U.S. became involved in during imperialism.
What is the Philippines, Puerto Rico, or Hawaii?
These three leaders played key roles in shaping the outcome of the Civil War.
Who are Lincoln, Grant, and Lee
This was a farming system tat often kept former enslaved African Americans in poverty
What is sharecropping?
This word means to integrate, referring to native Americans in the boarding schools- making them more "American."
What is assimilate?
Name one problem faced by workers during the Gilded Age.
What are low wages, unsafe conditions, or child labor?
This event helped push the U.S. into World War I.
What is the sinking of ships, the Zimmerman Telegram, or unrestricted submarine warfare?
Explain how the Civil War changed the nation socially or economically.
What is the end of slavery, increased federal power, the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendment, or economic transformation, hurting both sides, primarily the South?
Explain one long-term effect of Reconstruction’s failure.
What is segregation, racial inequality, or loss of federal protection?
How did the Homestead Act help settlers move west, and what problem did it create?
What is it gave settlers free land, but it took land away from Native Americans?
These two places were immigration stations for immigrants migrating to the U.S.
What are Angel and Ellis Island?
Explain one way World War I changed U.S. foreign policy.
What is increased global involvement or emergence as a world power?