How did industrial workers try to improve their working conditions?
Labor unions/strikes
200
What country did the US and Spain fight over during the Spanish-American War?
Cuba
300
The Stamp Act taxed which products?
Paper
300
Give two states created out of the territory claimed by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado
300
Where did Lee surrender to Grant, ending the Civil War?
Appomattox
300
What is lassiez-faire economics?
When the government does not regulate businesses.
300
What does the Monroe Doctrine state?
That European powers could not longer colonize or interfere in countries in Latin America
400
Where were the first shots fired during the Revolutionary War?
Lexington and Concord
400
Why were Native American removed from their land during Westward Expansion?
So white settlers could claim the land
400
What did the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson decide?
That segregation was constitutional - "separate but equal"
400
Why did the US pass the Chinese Exclusion Act (other than racism)?
Many Americans were afraid that the Chinese would take jobs, especially in the railroad industry
400
Why did the US support an independence movement in Panama against Colombia?
So the US could build the Panama Canal
500
What is one check the legislative branch has over the judicial branch?
Congress confirms judges/Supreme Court justices
500
What did the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford decide? (2 answers)
That escaped slaves must be returned to their owners even if they escape to a free state AND that slaves and descendants of slaves could not become Americans
500
What was the goal of Radical Republicans during Reconstruction?
Get equality for African-Americans and freed slaves
500
What was the Progressives' goal in America?
Improve life, especially among the working class.
500
Why did the US go to war in the Philippines?
The Philippines wanted independence after the Spanish-American War