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100
This kind of warfare was practiced by General William T. Sherman.
What is total warfare?
100
The Thirteenth Amendment did this.
What is abolish slavery?
100
Many immigrants from Europe came through this port in New York City.
What is Ellis Island?
100
Upton Sinclair wrote this book to expose the plight of workers; unfortunately readers were more interested in the horrific stories about inedible food.
What is The Jungle?
100
This is the idea that wealthy people are successful because they are innately smarter and more deserving.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
This is a person who wants to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
200
What famous trial determined that separate was equal?
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
200
This concept was held by many Americans who disliked or distrusted immigrants.
What is nativism?
200
Describe the laissez-faire economic policy.
What is "hands-off"; meaning the government would not regulate businesses.
200
The passage of this allowed for women's suffrage at a national level.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
When violence erupted in Western territories over whether future states would be open to slavery or not.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
300
What year did Reconstruction officially end according to historians?
What is 1877?
300
This law banned Chinese immigrants from entering the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
This is the main difference between the Knights of Labor Union and the American Federation of Labor Union.
What is their acceptance policy; the Knights of Labor allowed all workers to join; the AFL only allowed skilled, male workers.
300
A typical person in this group was white, urban, middle class and male.
What is Progressive?
400
The concept that includes ability of people to cast their votes in important decisions.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
These laws provided for segregation and were particularly enforced in the South.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
400
This was an important pull factor for immigrants from Europe.
What is the availability of farmland?
400
This is the result of the Bessemer Process.
What is stronger, lighter steel which allowed for more high-rise buildings and longer bridges?
400
This is the main difference between Progressives and Populists.
What is location? Progressives were activists in the city; Populism was a rural movement. Both focused on government protected the common people.
500
"War is hell" according to this famous general.
Who is William T. Sherman?
500
The 15th Amendment ensured what right to black Americans AND how was this right limited in the South?
What is grant freedmen the right to vote; literacy tests, poll taxes, violence and other scare tactics often prevented black Americans from exercising their right to vote.
500
Many immigrants were expected to go to school in order to do what?
What is assimilate to American culture?
500
Factory workers tended to work in this sort of environment.
What is dangerous and loud?
500
Describe the story one black activist told in 1895 and what it was a metaphor of.
What is Booker T. Washington's story of a ship lost at sea; "Cast down your bucket where you are" was a metaphor for black Americans being happy with their place in society. Washington argued that African Americans should not fight for equal rights.