Short Answer
Goal of the NAACP and ADL
To stop racial prejudice
Exclusive control over one industry by one company
What is a monopoly?
What is the 13th amendment
The war between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country in order to protect states rights
hmmm.. this is a tough one... what was the civil war?
Invented refrigerated rail cars so foods could be transported across the country without spoiling
Who was Gustavo Swift?
To officially accuse someone in office of wrongdoing
Extreme nativism
What is jingoism
The women's suffrage amendment
What is the 19th Amendment
Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia to intimidate the civilians of Georgia
What is Sherman's March to the Sea
"You furnish the photographs, I'll furnish the war"
Who was William Randolph Hearst
Describe what happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
There was a fire and many workers died because they were locked in work rooms with no escape
The belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal to the U.S.
A compromise that admitted California into the union as a free state while permitting popular sovereignty in the new territories and included a more strict fugitive slave law
What is the Compromise of 1850
The bloodiest day in civil war history
What is the Battle of Antietam
Radican Republican leader
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
What year was the 19th amendment passed
1920
belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
a document that states that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
The war sparked by the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor
What is the Spanish-American War
National Consumer League founder
Who was Alice Paul?
Not a short answer but an important concept: Why did the united states want to have offshore territories and states
(i.e. Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, even the Panama canal etc.)
To gain control over areas-- have them as pathways, fueling stations etc.
An arrangement where the supply chain of a company is owned by the company
Vertical Integration
An act that protects the voting rights by making intimidation of voters a federal crime
What is the Enforcement Act of 1870?
NOT a battle but a RIOT!!!! Anarchists bomb a protest in Chicago, killing a police officer. 12 people die in the chaos after. 8 anarchists tried. 4 of them convicted and executed.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
million dollar question ; Who has the nickname "The Rascal King"
James Michael Curley