Sectionalism
This term describes the belief that God pre-ordained Americans to expand from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Coast.
Manifest Destiny
Election of 1860 - Abraham Lincoln
Belief that some individuals are more fit than others - justified the mis-treatment of laborers.
Social Darwinism
Supreme Court Case that set the dangerous legal precedent of Separate but Equal. Bonus 100 points if you can name the case that overturned it.
Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education overturned it.
Term describing the modernization of Japan.
Meiji Restoration
This bill was never passed by Congress, but symbolized the burning issue of slavery following the Mexican-American War.
Wilmot Proviso
Bloodiest single day of the Civil War and prompted Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietam
Conservative economic system used in the Gilded Age that allowed monopolies to flourish.
Laissez-Faire
Work of literature that prompted the passing of the Meat Inspection Act.
The Jungle.
Event that led to the carving of Africa. Bonus 50 points for naming the actual carving of Africa.
Berlin Conference - Scramble for Africa.
Two events that John Brown was a part of that fueled North-South divisions.
Bleeding Kansas (Pottawatomie Massacre), John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, VA
Event that officially ended Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877 - Election of Rutherford B. Hayes
One example of Horizontal Integration.
Purchasing all the same stores/restaurants/ - competition.
Individual responsible for the term "muckraker"
Teddy Roosevelt
Four causes of imperialism.
Nationalism, Exploration, Ethnocentrism, Industrialism
Name two effects of the Dred Scott decision.
Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional, denied citizenship to Black people in the United States, implied that Black people in the United States were property, ruled Congress couldn't ban slavery in the territories, outraged the North, intensified North-South divisions, and fueled the abolitionist movement.
The North and the South's plan for victory in the Civil War.
North - Anaconda Plan: cut off all ports, secure the Mississippi River, and strangle the Confederacy.
South - War of Attrition, outlast the North, make the war so unpopular that they go home. Cotton Diplomacy: secure aid from Great Britain
Two pieces of nativist legislation or policies passed in the Gilded Age.
Chinese Exclusion Act, Gentlemen's Agreement, Naturalization Act of 1870 (excluded Asians from citizenship)
Three Progressive Amendments and what they did.
16th Amendment - income tax, 17th Amendment - direct election of senators, 18th Amendment - Prohibition, 19th Amendment - Women's Suffrage
Two reasons the United States became involved in the Spanish-American War.
De Lome Letter, Battleship Maine, Yellow Journalism
Three provisions of the Compromise of 1850
California entered as a free state, Utah & New Mexico decided through popular sovereignty, Texas relinquished its claims in exchange for $10 million - settled border disputes, slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C., Fugitive Slave Law was passed
Four services provided by the Freedmen's Bureau.
Contract assistance, education, food, clothing, medical assistance, legal assistance, housing, banking.
Four monopolists in the Gilded Age and their industries.
John D. Rockefeller - Oil, Andrew Carnegie - Steel, JP Morgan - investment banking, Cornelius Vanderbilt - shipping/transportation/railroads, Andrew Mellon - investment banking, Jay Gould - railroads
Three progressive reformers and their area of reform.
Carrie Nation - prohibition, Upton Sinclair - Consumer Protections, Alice Paul - Women's Rights, Jane Addams - Immigrant, Jacob Riis - Tenements, Samuel Gompers - Labor, Ida Tarbell - Economic Reform, Mother Jones - Labor, Eugene Debs - Labor, Margaret Sanger - Women's Health, WEB DuBois - Civil Rights, Booker T Washington - Civil Rights, Ida B Wells - Civil Rights, etc.
Three types of imperialism and an example of each.
Colony: Australia, America, Africa
Protectorate: Cuba, Panama Canal
Sphere of Influence: China, Eastern Europe, Western Europe