Reconstruction
Western Expansion
Industrial America
Labor Movement/ Urbanization
Urbanization/ Progressive Era
Progressive Era
Imperialism
WWI
100

Which amendment ended slavery in the U.S. making it illegal to own another human being?

What is the 13th Amendment?

100

Promised settlers 160 acres for free if they farmed it for five years.

What is The Homestead Act?

100

Located in New York Harbor, it was the main point of entry into the U.S. for immigrants (mainly from Europe) from 1892 to 1954. 

What is Ellis Island?

100

What company controlled 95% of oil refineries by 1877, was controlled by John D. Rockefeller and Muckraker Ida Tarbell exposed their monopolistic practices?

What is the Standard Oil Company?


100

Supreme Court case which declared "separate but equal" to be constitutional.  Led to legal segregation in the South.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

100

The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were passed by Congress after President Roosevelt read_________ by ________

What is THE JUNGLE by UPTON SINCLAIR?


100

American naval vessel that was sunk by the Spanish in Havana Harbor Cuba; started the Spanish American War.

What is USS Maine?


100

Name the two alliances in World War I.

What is the Central Powers, (Germany and Austria-Hungary, joined by Ottoman Turkey) and Allied Powers, (Britain, France, Russia and later Italy)?


200

This group called the  ______________  __________ wanted to give freed slaves homesteads, economic independence, and the right to vote. This group also wanted to punish the south.

Who were the Radical Republicans?


200

These government lands were for tribes that signed a treaty with the federal government.  In return the indian tribes promised not to go beyond the borders of these lands. 

What is the Reservation System?


200

Reduced the cost of making steel by more than 80% while also making it stronger and more durable. 

What is Bessemer Process?


200

These tactics were used by who during the Labor Movement - Yellow Dog Contracts, Blacklisting, Lockouts and Strike breakers.

What is tactics of Management to resist labor?

200

One big difference between the "Old Immigrants" and "New Immigrants" is that the New Immigrants ______________

New Immigrants did not speak English and had very different religions.  They were mainly from Southern (Italy) and Eastern Europe?

200

 Journalists, photographers and authors who published their work in order to raise awareness of social issues and injustices.

What is a muckraker?

200

A technique for selling more newspapers by sensationalizing and distorting the facts in stories written.

What is Yellow Journalism?


200

A policy of not choosing sides in a conflict; it was the reason the U.S. was slow to enter World War I.

What is neutrality?

300

Which amendment gave all people born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens and all citizens have equal protection under the law?

What is the 14th Amendment?

300

Some reformers encouraged Indians to adopt American ways and institutions such as priviate property.  It was thought that Indians could become part of mainstream society.

What is Americanization?



300

Thomas Edison invented ________

George Pullman invented _____


What is Light Bulb?

What is Sleeping Car?


300

This famous "riot" in 1886 killed a police officer.  The German anarchists thought to be associated with this riot were taken into custody. These eight anarchists were found to be guilty.  Four of the eight were hanged, one committed suicide and two served life in prison. 

What was the Haymarket Riot? 

300

The belief that native-born Americans were superior to others and that immigrants and their diverse cultural influences were undesirable.  

What is Nativism?


300

This amendment provided for the direct election of Senators.

What is the 17th amendment?


300

Spanish Ambassador wrote that the President of the United States was ,"weak" indicating that the Spanish were not being truthful with Cuba of the U.S. 

What is The De Lome Letter?

300

A coded message sent by the German Foreign Minister to Mexico proposing a military alliance against the U.S.

What is the Zimmerman Note, (Telegram).


400

A welfare agency created to provide aid, school, healthcare, and clothing to poor whites and newly freed slaves.

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

400

Threatened the survival of Indian culture.

A law that let the federal government divide up reservations (land that belonged to Native American tribes), and give pieces of them to individual Native Americans instead.

What is the Dawes Act?

400

A Captain of Industry made his fortune in the steel industry.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?


400

Who faced these problems: Impersonal working conditions, long working hours, low wages, Lack of opportunity for advancement and Child Labor?

What is Problems Faced by Industrial Workers?

400

Amendment that gave women the right to vote

What is the 19th Amendment?


400

Taken together, these increased the power of voters in the political process.

What is initiative, recall, and referendum?

400

Built to shorten the distance that ships had to travel to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

What is the Panama Canal?

400

The widespread migration of millions of African Americans from the South to the North and West during the 20th century.

What is the Great Migration?


500

This Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.  

What is the 15th Amendment?

500

The last major conflict between the U.S. Army and Native Americans in which an overwhelming force of U.S. soldiers killed over 200 men, women, and children of the Lakota Indians. 

What is Wounded Knee?

500

Banned this group of laborers from immigrating to the U.S. for ten years because their efforts to build the railroad in the West created anger in white laborers.

What led to the Chinese Exclusion Act?

500

This labor union was founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers. It became a powerful force in fighting for workers' rights through strikes and through politics. 

What is the American Federation of Labor?


500

An economic philosophy that the government should not interfere in the free market (Hint: "hands off") 

What is Laissez-faire?

500

A civil rights group founded in 1909 to work to end racial discrimination.

What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

500

 A treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that gave the U.S. increased control over the island in order to protect U.S. interests in the Caribbean.

What is the Platt Amendment?

500

This "treaty" brought an end to WWI, it imposed harsh penalties on Germany including losing much of its territory, signing a War Guilt Clause and required to pay large repartations and Included the League of Nations. 

What is The Treaty of Versailles?



600

Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War intended to deny former slaves their full civil rights.

What are Black Codes?


600

Transported raw materials used in industrial production, such as coal and iron ore

Were also one of the largest consumers of raw materials in their own

Connected the East Coast with the West Coast 

What is the railroad industry or trancontinental railroad?


600

This California based immigration center processed immigrants arriving mainly from Asia.

What is Angel Island?

600

More factories created many more job opportunities in cities. People move from rural areas to large urban locations. Minorities and immigrants increased these numbers.

What was the impact of immigration on urban America?

600

A deadly disaster in a New York City sweatshop that started a national movement to pass laws providing safety and fire codes in factories.

What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?

600

Laws in the South based on race. They enforced segregation between white people and black people in public places such as schools.

What are Jim Crow laws?


600

A foreign policy statement by Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 that claimed the right of the United States to intervene in the domestic affairs of Western Hemisphere nations to maintain stability.

What is the Roosevelt  Corollary?

600

This was an international peacekeeping organization that was part of President Wilson Fourteen Points. It would be rejected by the U.S. Senate. 

What is The League of Nations?