Civil War, Reconstruction
The election of which president caused the Southern States to secede from the Union?
Lincoln
“Survival of the fittest”—the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better.
Social Darwinism
Populist movement= movement of _______
Farmers
The event that led us into war against Spain
Main group pushing for prohibition
Women (but also protestants and progressives)
All slaves in confederate territory (rebel states)
Successful industrialists whose business practices were considered ruthless or unethical
Robber Barons
Democratic presidential candidate that advocated for populist beliefs
William Jennings Bryan
Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and exaggeration
Underground bar/establishment that sold alcohol during prohibition
Speakeasies
State and local legislation that legalized racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government
Muckrakers
The U.S. overthrew the monarchy and annexed ______
Hawaii
Red Scare: Americans were afraid of
Communism
Term for the post Civil War era in which United States grappled with how to integrate newly freed African Americans into society
Reconstruction
4 territories U.S. acquired as a result of the Spanish Am War
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines
3 ways African Americans were disenfranchised (prevented from voting)
Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause
Policy that says: all of China needs to be open to US trade, other nations must share trading rights with the US, other nations have to agree
Open Door Policy