Foreign Policy
This northernmost American territory was bought/acquired with diplomacy
What is Alaska
Laws passed across Southern states that enforced segregation and restricted Black civil rights despite the 14th & 15th Amendments.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This type of protest involves refusing to work until changes are made.
What is a strike
These two groups were the leading political parties of the time period (1865-1900)
What are Democrats and Republicans?
Following the Spanish-American war, this country fought for its independence from the US
What is the Philippines
These laws (enforcing literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses) were designed after Reconstruction to prevent African Americans from exercising the Fifteenth Amendment.
What are disenfranchisement laws?
This labor union consisted of both skilled and unskilled workers and was led by Terence V. Powderly
What are the Knights of Labor
What are Party Conventions?
This addition to the Cuban constitution gave the US power over the newly independent country
What is the Platt Amendment
This was the first major federal law to ban immigration based on race or nationality, targeting laborers from East Asia.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What labor protest in Chicago (1886) turned violent after a bomb was thrown at police
What is the Haymarket Affair.
This economic issue caused a split in the Democratic party
What was the debate over creating silver coinage?
This American policy prevented European nations from monopolizing Chinese trade
What is the Open Door Policy
This 1896 Supreme Court decision upheld “separate but equal,” making racial segregation legal across the South.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What legal tactic was used during the Pullman Strike to stop workers from continuing to protest?
What is an injunction.
This group of republicans decided to back democratic candidate Grover Cleveland instead of republican James G. Blaine in the election of 1884
What were the Mugwumps? (Because Blaine supported the Spoils system)
The protective tariff that contributed to increasing American sugar investments in Cuba and Hawaii was named after which congressman?
Who is William McKinley (McKinley Tariff)
This 1887 law broke up tribal lands into individual allotments, forcing Native Americans to assimilate and resulting in massive land loss.
What is the Dawes Act?
What legal tactic was used during the Pullman Strike to stop workers from continuing to protest?
What is an injunction.
Cleveland's second election (1892) was the first time since 1859 that this happened in the government
What was the Democrats holding all of congress and the presidency