Reconstruction
Name the person whose plan this is; 10% plan because he required only 10% of each southern state to pledge loyalty to the United States and for each state to approve the 13th Amendment
What is Lincoln’s Plan?
This law passed during Civil War and Westward Expansion that encouraged Americans to move and settle the West by giving away 160 acres of land
What is the Homestead Act ?
Factory production of goods in large quantities
What is mass production?
Immigration processing center located in New York Harbor, the immigrants came from Europe
What is Ellis Island ?
A country tries to extend its influence to other countries/nations/states - sometimes called expansionism
It can be one country taking over another country and establishing colonies, but can also be more subtle, like when one country forces another to trade
What is Imperialism?
Who are Republicans who wanted to punish the South severely for their role in the Civil War?
What is Radical Republican?
Which act forced Native Americans to change their culture/ways of living to be more American?
What is the Dawes Act?
A factory method in which work moves past stationary workers who perform a single task again and again.
What is Assembly line?
A wave from 1860 or earlier. Northern and Western Europe (England, Scotland, Germany, Scandinavia - most were Protestants), there were also Irish and Chinese, but in smaller numbers
What is the Old Wave?
Name given to government officials who tried to regulate big businesses and break-up trusts/monopolies that hurt consumers
What is a trustbuster?
What court case was a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – "separate but equal".
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
The idea that the United States as a great nation had done things no other nation had done before, it had a right and responsibility to expand. Meant to occupy an area covering the Atlantic to Pacific
What is Manifest Destiny?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!!
A policy or attitude of being hands off; not interfering in ones business.
What is Laissez-Faire?
Following the Civil war (late 1800s) and till the 1920s. Southern and Eastern Europe (Italian, Greek, present-day Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus) -.
What is the New Wave ?
These provided services to the poor who were living in urban cities to help people. Such as job training, daycare, language education, place to stay and food to eat.
What is a settlement house?
These were passed by Southern States during Reconstruction to deny equal rights to African Americans
What is black codes?
To keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle. This system allowed Indian tribes to govern themselves and to maintain some of their cultural and social traditions.
What is reservations?
Type of business or organization owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a person.
What is a corporation?
DOUBLE JEAPORDY!!!!!!!!
When people treat immigrants differently. It is the idea that immigration should be restricted or that new immigrants should have different rights than people already living in the country
What is Nativism?
A type of journalism that is an exaggeration of news stories in order to make them seem more interesting so that people will buy newspapers
What is Yellow Journalism ?
Whose plan pardoned Confederate leaders and allowed them to return to government offices. Allowed southern states to rebuild themselves after Civil War?
What is Johnson's Plan?
The process of adapting one's culture to fit in to a new place.
What is Assimilation?
A law passed to break-up trusts and monopolies because they were unfair to consumers/citizens. Monopolies can charge whatever price they want AND they don't have to develop new ideas.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The first immigration law that excluded an entire ethnic group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Spreading christiantiy and democracy throughout the world
Americans had a responsibility to go around the world (Central/South America, Africa, Asia) and spread American culture, customs, government, industrialization, goods, religion to places that were less advanced than the U.S.
What is the white man's burden?