The only Democratic Party president of the second half of the 19th century, he was elected to two non-consecutive terms.
What is Grover Cleveland?
100
Americans got involved in the Spanish-American War in an effort to help this country gain independence.
What is Cuba?
100
These Northerners, along with a group derisively known as Scalawags, came to rebuild the South after the Civil War and often had the reputation of defrauding the government out of huge amounts of money.
What is carpetbaggers?
100
It was an unpleasant surprise to most Republicans when this Southern Democrat succeeded Lincoln to the presidency.
What is Andrew Johnson?
100
The trend of more people living in cities that resulted from the increased industrialization of the later 1800s
What is urbanization?
200
Leader of the Rough Riders and unsuccessful Bull Moose candidate
What is Theodore Roosevelt?
200
This "Indian Territory" was opened to white homesteading in 1989.
What is Oklahoma?
200
This refers to the idea that America was obviously meant to stretch across the North American continent, "from sea to shining sea."
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
He was President during the Spanish-American War.
What is William McKinley?
200
The AFL was one of the first __ that formed in response to industrialization.
What is labor unions?
300
Political party of the late 19th century that posted over a million votes for its candidate, Robert Weaver; believed in subsidies for farmers and a the free minting of silver.
What is Populist?
300
Although thousands of these immigrants worked on building the Transcontinental Railroad, they were not allowed to pose for the famous picture of its completion in 1869.
What is Chinese?
300
They were Southern whites who wanted the South to be returned to the "glory days" of slavery; they were particularly active in shaping the Jim Crow laws of the late 1800s.
What is Redeemers?
300
After blacks, these immigrants were the most discriminated against, especially after a huge wave of immigrants came to the U.S. in the 1840s.
What is Irish?
300
After the Panic of 1893, this trend occurred in family work habits.
What is children and women working to replace the unemployed father's wages?
400
In the late 1800s, this party was known to support more government spending, and more government involvement in shaping the economy.
What is Republican?
400
This Senator authored a plan in which Native reservations would be divided into allotments, partly so that the Native people would begin to live more like white people.
What is Dawes?
400
Name given to Mexicans living in Texas at the time of the Texas war for Independence
What is Tejanos?
400
This shipping magnate transitioned into railroad building and presided over 4500 miles of track when he died.
What is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
400
In the later 1800s most large cities and many states were run by these organizations, the most famous being Tammany Hall in NYC.
What is political machines?
500
The Compromise of ___, in which Rutherford B. Hayes was put forward as president, brought about the end of ?
What is Reconstruction?
500
In the 1800s the U.S. sold land to the __ companies, which then made money by selling it to farmers and other settlers.
What is railroad?
500
This term is used to describe a war in which the winning side outlasts the other, which is exhausted through loss of supplies and troops. The last stages of the Civil War can be classified in this way.
What is war of attrition?
500
Political cartoonist who chronicled such events as Reconstruction and the crimes of the political machines
What is Thomas Nast?
500
These were some ways in which blacks were kept from voting in the South, after the passage of the Jim Crow laws and other measures were taken.
What is poll tax, literacy test, intimidation at the polls and in general?