Foundations of America
This document outlined grievances against King George III and declared the colonies’ freedom.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This act provided settlers with 160 acres of land if they farmed it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This term describes business leaders who gained wealth through questionable practices?
Who are robber barons?
Journalists who exposed societal problems during the Progressive Era were called this?
What are Muckrakers?
This policy sought to ensure equal trading rights with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This agreement established self-government for settlers in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This document declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This policy relocated Native Americans to designated areas to make room for settlers.
What is the reservation system?
This law prohibited Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This amendment allowed voters to directly elect US senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This addition of the Monroe Doctrine declared the U.S. as the policeman of the Caribbean and the Americas (the entire western hemisphere).
What is the Roosevelt Corollary (Big Stick Policy)?
This rebellion highlighted the weaknesses of the Article of the Confederation.
What is Shay’s Rebellion?
This post-Civil War system kept African Americans economically dependent on landowners.
What is sharecropping?
This law attempted to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This process involves workers negotiating with employers as a group for better pay or conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
This act required accurate labeling of food and drug.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This construction project connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This principle allows the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of laws.
What is judicial review?
This federal agency provided assistance to freed African Americans and poor whites after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The massacre of Sioux at this location marked the end of Native American armed resistance.
What is Wounded Knee?
This wealthy steel magnate was well known for philanthropy?
Andrew Carnegie
This progressive leader advocated for African American economic independence.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This ideology justified U.S. expansion by claiming the superiority of American culture.
What is Social Darwinism?
This compromise counted enslaved people as part of a state’s population for representation purposes.
What is the ⅗ Compromise?
These laws aimed to limit the rights of African Americans following the passage of the 13th Amendment.
The Black Codes
This battle was a major Native American victory against U.S. forces.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This political movement sought to address farmers’ economic concerns in the late 19th Century.
What is the Populist Movement?
This reform taxes to be paid based on income.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This ship's sinking increased public support for U.S. involvement in the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?