Civil War
This is the name for people who worked to end slavery because they saw it as morally wrong.
Abolitionists
An organization of former Confederate soldiers who terrorized Black people across the South.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Chinese and Irish immigrant laborers were primarily involved in the construction of this between 1862 and 1869.
The Transcontinental Railroad
This French word means that the government does not interfere in the economy but really it refers to the lack of governmental regulation, not governmental support.
Laissez-faire
A law that severely limited the number of Chinese immigrants that could enter the United States and barred all Chinese laborers for decades.
The Chinese Exclusion Act
A movement dedicated to winning the right to vote for women in the United States.
Women's Suffrage
American Press that relied upon sensationalized stories based on very little evidence or actual fact to sell newspapers.
Yellow Journalism
These were the MAIN (long-term) causes of the Great War.
Militarism, Alliance System, Imperialism, and Nationalism
This was the first state to officially secede from the Union following Lincolns election in 1860.
South Carolina
Black Codes
Native American tribes were rounded up and forced to settle on these in order to open up their traditional homelands for white American settlement.
Reservations (Reservation System)
This is a type of organization of workers that negotiates with employers for higher wages, better working conditions, and provides social opportunities to its members.
A Labor Union
The port of entry located in New York Harbor where most European immigrants entered the United States.
Ellis Island
Investigative journalists who sought to expose corruption in big business and government.
Muckrakers
A. U.S. ship that sank in Havana Harbor after an explosion, which contributed to an American Declaration of War against Spain.
USS Maine
This British passenger ship carrying 128 American citizens was sunk by a German U-Boat and led many to side against Germany.
Lusitania
This document "freed" slaves in all rebelling states in the South.
Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment that gave all men the right to vote, regardless of race.
15th Amendment
The belief that God required white Americans to settle the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts.
Manifest Destiny
A negotiating tactic wherein workers refuse to work until their employers are willing to meet their demands.
Strike
Nativism
He was a Progress President who was known as the "Trust Buster" and promised citizens a "Square Deal" wherein the government would ensure fairness by breaking up bad trusts, regulating industry, and protecting the environment.
Theodore Roosevelt
Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam were all territories acquired as a result of this War.
The Spanish-American War
This was a coded message sent from the German Foreign Minister to the Mexican government promising a return of territory lost in the Mexican-American War if they declared war on the United States.
The Zimmerman Telegram
This was the Northern plan to blockade Southern ports in order to paralyze trade and win the War.
Anaconda Plan
A group of Congressman who wanted to guarantee African Americans civil rights and who wanted to see Southern Confederates pay for making war on the United States.
Radical Republicans
The plan to add silver to the traditional gold standard as a backing for the U.S.'s paper money supply.
Bimetalism
He was the owner of the Standard Oil Company who created a monopoly on kerosene and gasoline.
John D. Rockefeller
This word is used to describe the shifting of American society from living in largely rural farming communities to big cities.
Urbanization
Muckraker who wrote The Jungle, which exposed horrific labor and sanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry and which caused an outcry leading to the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
Upton Sinclair
An artificial waterway that made trade and travel between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean significantly faster and cheaper.
The Panama Canal
This act required adult male citizens to register for the draft, making it seem as though this compulsory military service was voluntary.
Selective Service Act
Jefferson Davis
This created a system of economic exploitation called debt peonage wherein freedpeople were forced to work for white landowners until they could pay off their debts.
Sharecropping
A political party founded in 1892 that was created to help farmers get out of debt and to give the common, everyday people a greater voice in American government.
The Populist Party
He created a monopoly on steel production and his attempts to crush organized labor resulted in the Homestead Strike.
Andrew Carnegie
This was a pseudo-scientific theory that proclaimed certain races of people to be more highly evolved, especially economically successful, white, Anglo-Saxons; it was used to justify discrimination against minority groups, immigrants, and the poor.
Social Darwinism
This amendment prohibited the sale and distribution of alcohol in the United States.
18th Amendment (Prohibition)
United States foreign policy in 1904 that claimed the right of the United States to intervene in order to "stabilize" the economic affairs of any Latin American countries in order to forestall intervention by other foreign powers.
The Roosevelt Corollary
An Act which made it a crime to use "disloyal" language that criticized the government or the war effort.
The Sedition Act
This part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act stated that people living in the territories could vote on the issue of slavery which resulted in violent riots at the polling booths.
Popular Sovereignty
An organization which helped formerly enslaved people with school, jobs, and housing.
An 1862 law which granted 160 acres of land out West to any citizen with $5 who would agree to occupy the land and improve it.
The Homestead Act
This business strategy attempts to create a monopoly by controlling all of the steps of the production and distribution of a product.
Vertical Integration
He was the leader of Tammany Hall political machine in New York City who was ultimately taken down by the political cartoons of Thomas Nast.
William "Boss" Tweed
This industrial tragedy led to the death of garment workers in New York City and helped bring attention to the need for Progressive reforms guaranteeing worker safety.
The Triangle Shirtwaiste Factory Fire
He was a U.S. naval officer who wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, which argued that the only way the United States could become a serious world power would be to build up its navy and become an imperial power like Great Britain.
Alfrey Thayer Mahan
This belligerent country was not allowed to participate in the peace talks at the Paris Peace Conference, where the Treaty of Versailles was negotiated.
Germany
This is where General Robert E. Lee formally surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War.
Appomattox Courthouse
The official end of Reconstruction, this deal allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become President as long as he agreed to pull all Union troops out of the South.
Compromise of 1877 (Hayes Compromise)
An 1887 law which divided communal, tribal land into small family plots in order to force Native Americans to assimilate to white American farming habits, but which ultimately resulted in a loss of most tribal lands to settlers.
The Dawes Act
This disturbance in Chicago in 1886 began when someone threw a bomb at police during a peaceful labor protest.
The Haymarket Riot
These multi-family apartment buildings were photographed by Jacob Riis in order to bring attention to the overcrowded, dilapidated, and unsanitary conditions poor people were forced to live in.
Tenements
A Muckraker who wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company which exposed the ruthless tactics John D. Rockefeller used to make Standard Oil the largest monopoly in the world.
Ida Tarbell
Queen Liliuokalani was the monarch of this sovereign nation before she was overthrown by American sugar planters, missionaries, and U.S. Marines.
Hawaii
Republican Senators feared this section of the Treaty of Versailles would force them into further European conflicts; therefore they refused to join the League of Nations.
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