Vocabulary
the right to vote
What is suffrage?
What is the 13th?
Invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Cut travel from east coast to west coast from 6 weeks to just days
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Amendment that granted women's suffrage.
What is the 19th?
the movement from rural areas to cities; the growth of cities
What is urbanization?
Series of laws passed in south after Civil War to restrict the rights of African Americans
What were the black codes?
Industry in which Carnegie was a leader
What is steel?
Belief that God intended for America to stretch from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Amendment that outlawed the sale of alcohol.
What is 18th or Prohibition?
writers who exposed abuse and corruption
Who are muckrakers?
Amendment that gave black men the right to vote
What is the 15th?
Strike outside of Pittsburgh at a steel mill in which state troops were called in to break the union.
What is the Homestead Strike?
war fought between US and Spain in 1898; fought mainly in Cuba and the Philippines
What is the Spanish-American War?
Progressives believed these people could fix the problems of society (such as poverty).
Who are technical experts?
the extension of one's way of life to other nations by taking control of or heavily influencing other countries
What is imperialism?
4 Reconstruction era Presidents in the order in which they served.
Who are Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes?
Outlawed monopolies but didn't have much power to enforce
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Two women who led the women's suffrage movement.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
government regulation or ownership of the means of production
What is socialism?
This event marked the end of the Reconstruction Era.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
When federal troops were removed from the south.
Man known for urban evangelism
Who is Dwight Moody?
Gave citizens 160 acres of free land to help settle the frontier
What is the Homestead Act?
Supreme Court ruling that declared racial segregation constitutional.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?