Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion
These are a series of laws/regulations that restricted the rights of freed people.
Jim Crow Laws/ Black Codes
Immigrants entering the East Coast of the U.S. came through this Island.
Ellis Island
These are business people who exploit workers, use questionable practices, and accumulate massive wealth.
Robber Barons
The process where a rich powerful country exploits a weaker country for resources.
Imperialism
The 1920’s has a nickname. What is it?
Roaring 20s
This time period was ultimately considered a failure due to restrictions on Black Americans rights.
Reconstruction
This revolution changed the American economy from an agricultural one to a manufacturing one.
Industrial Revolution
These are business people who give back to the community, treat their workers well, and provide benefits to workers.
Captains of Industry
These are the four large scale causes of WWI.
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
What kids of leisure activities were popular in the 1920’s?
Baseball, Radio, Camping, driving in your car, shopping, etc.
The belief that Americans were given the right by God to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
Immigrants lived in small apartments, cramped environments, and unlivable conditions. These are called…
Tenement Housing
DAILY DOUBLE
These industries were created during the industrial revolution and led to business titans like Carnegie and Rockefeller.
Oil, Banking, Steel
This leader was assassinated in Serbia, starting WWI.
What event in 1929 send the economy into a downward spiral?
Stock Market Crash of 1929.
This details forced Native Removal from native lands to the Oregon territory resulting in death and devastation.
Trail of Tears
These immigrant groups that entered the U.S. were considered “New Immigrants”.
German, Italian, Polish, etc.
Reformers who uncover questionable business practices are called what?
Muckrakers
This short but successful war was dubbed a “Splendid Little War”.
Spanish-American War
Who was President during the Great Depression who was criticized for not doing anything to help?
Herbert Hoover
This country ceded the land that makes up present day Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, and more.
Mexico
This factory burned down, trapping young women inside demonstrating the need for labor reform.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
This journalist and reformer infiltrated Chicago meat packing plants and wrote “The Jungle”.
Upton Sinclair
This treaty ended WWI, and created a very important alliance network. What was the treaty and the alliance network?
Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations
What was the set of reform programs called that got the U.S. out of the Great Depression?