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Reconstruction
Progressive Era
Industrial Age
Immigration
Imperialism
100
What amendment freed the slaves?
13th Amendment
100
What does reform mean?
To change for the better
100
Who introduced mass production to car manufacturing?
Henry Ford
100
What statue is a symbol of welcoming immigrants?
Statue of Liberty
100
What president initiated the building of the Panama Canal?
Theodore Roosevelt
200
What Supreme Court decision, known as the "separate but equal" decision, allowed the spread of segregation throughout the South?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
200
What amendment outlawed alcohol?
18th Amendment
200
What term means more people moving to the cities?
urbanization
200
Where were immigrants from Europe coming through New York processed during the 1890s?
Ellis Island
200
After what war did the U.S. gain the Philippines and Puerto Rico?
Spanish American War
300
What did they call the laws of segregation passed in the South after Reconstruction ended?
Jim Crow laws
300
Explain two reasons why Prohibition failed.
Rise in crime, could not be enforced, loss of tax revenue, rise of organized crime
300
What type of business organization sells stocks to investors?
corporation
300
What law forbade the immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years?
Chinese Exclusion Act
300
What was the name of the uprising in China against all foreigners in the 1890s?
Boxer Rebellion
400
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
400
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
400
What monopoly/trust did Ida Tarbell attack in her muckraker articles?
Standard Oil Trust
400
What term means anti-immigrant sentiment?
nativism
400
What was the name of the U.S. battleship sunk by an explosion in Havana Harbor in 1898?
"Maine"
500
What did the call northerners who traveled South to work in Reconstruction governments?
Carpetbaggers
500
What was the goal of the temperance movement?
To end the abuse of alcohol
500
Who was the most powerful banker of the late 1800s?
J.P. Morgan
500
What laws were passed in the 1920s to limit immigration from certain nations?
Quota Laws
500
Who led the Filipino rebels for independence, first against Spain, then the U.S.?
Emilio Aguinaldo