Unit 1: Civil War and Reconstruction
How did the South react to Reconstruction?
What is by passing Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws and forming groups like the KKK?
What was the name of the railroad that connected the East to West? AND who built it?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad? AND What are Chinese and Irish Immigrants?
What industry did John D. Rockefeller have a monopoly on?
What is the Oil industry (Standard Oil)?
What is imperialism?
What is a policy in which a strong nation extends its power and influence over weaker regions, often by taking control of their land, economy, or government through military force, political pressure, or economic dominance?
What style of warfare was used in WW1? AND What new technologies?
What is Trench warfare? What is machine guns, tanks, planes, submarines, etc.?
What are Black Codes?
What are Southern laws passed after the Civil War to limit the freedom of African Americans and keep them economically dependent.
What was the Homestead Act?
What is the 1862 law that gave settlers 160 acres of land if they agreed to farm it for five years?
What is Laissez-Faire?
What is the belief in limited/no government regulation of business (allowing industrialists to grow large companies with minimal interference)?
What is Yellow Journalism and how did it cause the Spanish‑American War?
What are sensationalized newspaper stories exaggerated Spanish actions in Cuba, increasing public anger and pushing the U.S. toward war with Spain?
What were the 2 causes of United States involvement in World War I?
What is Unrestricted submarine warfare sinking the RMS Lusitania and the Zimmermann Telegram?
What was the North's strategy to win the Civil War?
What is the Anaconda Plan (This plan aimed to blockade Southern ports, control the Mississippi River, and split the Confederacy to weaken its ability to fight.)?
What caused the economic challenges faced by American farmers?
What is Farmers faced low crop prices, high railroad rates, expensive loans, and overproduction in the late 1800s?
What were the goals of early labor unions?
What is sought better wages, shorter workdays, and safer working conditions?
What is Teddy Roosevelt’s Big Stick diplomacy, and how did he use it?
What is belief in a strong military and the idea of “speak softly and carry a big stick,” using force when necessary to protect U.S. interests?
What was America's foreign policy in the beginning of WW1 and then again after WW1?
What is isolationism?
Who were the Radical Republicans and what did they believe in?
What is a group who believed in the complete abolition of slavery and equal rights and protection of formerly enslaved people who believed in punishing the South and passed the Reconstruction Amendments (13,14, and 15th)?
What is the Dawes Act? AND define Assimilation.
What is an act that stole Native American land and divided it into plots and forced N.A. into reservations, AND What is the policy of forcing Native Americans to adopt white American culture and abandon their own culture ("Americanize")?
What was the experience of European immigrants in the East compared to Asian immigrants in the West?
What is European immigrants entering through Ellis Island were usually welcomed, while Asian immigrants at Angel Island faced long detentions and discrimination?
What were the Open Door Policy and the Gentlemen’s Agreement?
What is the Open Door Policy promoted equal trade access in China, while the Gentlemen’s Agreement limited Japanese immigration in exchange for respectful treatment of Japanese Americans?
What role did African Americans/minorities, women, and conscientious objectors play in WW1?
What is African Americans served in segregated units and still faced discrimination, women worked in noncombat jobs like nurses, conscientious objectors faced punishment but also still served noncombat roles (drivers)?
What is debt peonage? AND what is sharecropping?
What is a system that trapped many African Americans in constant debt, forcing them to work for landowners to repay money they could never fully pay off? AND
What is a system after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else and paid rent with a share of the crops they produced, often trapping them in long‑term debt?
What was William Jennings Bryan intent of his Cross of Gold speech?
What is that he argued in his famous “Cross of Gold” speech that free silver would help farmers and workers by increasing the money supply; AKA promoting bimetallism?
What were the major differences between the First and Second Industrial Revolutions in the United States?
What is the First Industrial Revolution focused on water and steam power and textile production, while the Second Industrial Revolution emphasized electricity, steel, oil, mass production, and new technologies?
What is the Roosevelt Corollary and how was it an extension of the Monroe Doctrine?
What is the policy expanded the Monroe Doctrine by stating that the U.S. had the right to intervene in Latin American countries to preserve order and prevent European involvement?
How did WW1 end AND explain the treaty?
What is the Treaty of Versailles that punished Germany (reparations) and created the League of Nations (which the U.S. did NOT join)?