Colonies + Revolution
This disease was brought to America by Europeans and decimated the Native population.
What is Smallpox?
This was President Lincoln's most famous speech, delivered during a memorial to a bloody civil war battle.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Funded by the government, this infrastructure project connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the US for the first time.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
These individuals worked to expose the problems in American society, government and economy?
Who are Muckrakers?
This colonial region relied on an agricultural economy due to their warm weather and excellent soil.
What is the South?
This book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe was a major contributor to the Abolition movement.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
What is Assimilation and/or Boarding Schools?
This is one PULL factor causing immigrants to move to the US in massive numbers in the late 19th and early 20th century.
What is jobs, safety, religious freedom, free/cheap farmland etc.
This colonial region relied on a manufacturing and trading economy due to their poor soil and excellent harbors.
What is the North / New England?
This constitutional amendment granted the right to vote to all men, regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This law blocked the entrance of Chinese immigrants into the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Upton Sinclair wrote this book to expose the problems in the American meatpacking industry.
This was President Washington's foreign policy advice.
What is Neutrality?
This was one of the methods used to stop Black men from voting in Southern states.
What are literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, violence, intimidation, KKK etc.
This was the first Women's Rights meeting in American history.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This muckraker exposed the problems in New York's tenements in his book "How the Other Half Lives".
Who is Jacob Riis?
This is the term for an action or decision that serves as an example to follow in the future.
What is a precedent?
This civil rights organization founded by W.E.B. Du Bois fought for equal rights for Black Americans all over the nation.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
Ratified in 1920, this constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote (though women could vote in many states before its ratification).
What is the 19th Amendment?
This group strongly opposed the arrival of immigrants to the United States.
What are Nativists / Know-Nothings?