A Nation Divided
This period following the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and reuniting the country.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment prohibited denying voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This amendment established birthright citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This term describes the forced separation of people based on race.
What is segregation?
This plan required less than a quarter of a Southern state's voters from the 1860 election to swear loyalty to the Union before forming a new state government.
What is Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
This federal organization helped formerly enslaved people by providing food, education, and assistance finding employment.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These laws enforced racial segregation in schools, transportation, and other public places.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This photographer and journalist exposed the terrible living conditions of New York City's poor in How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This author wrote The Jungle, exposing unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This term refers to granting forgiveness for certain offenses, something Lincoln supported for many former Confederates.
What is amnesty?
This type of crowded urban apartment building was documented by Jacob Riis.
What is a tenement?
The lead architect of The Statue of Liberty also created this famous world landmark.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This 1906 federal law required government inspection of meat products to help ensure they were safe for consumers.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
These tests were used to prevent many African Americans from voting by requiring them to demonstrate reading skills.
What are literacy tests?
This group of Republicans in Congress wanted stricter Reconstruction policies and greater protections for formerly enslaved African Americans.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning the idea of “separate but equal” in public education.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This term describes the act of taking away someone's right to vote, often through poll taxes and literacy tests.
What is disenfranchisement?
This voting requirement forced individuals to pay money before being allowed to cast a ballot.
What is a poll tax?
The term given to a white southerner, who was in favor of Reconstruction
What is a scalawag ?
Another term for the Gilded Age, a time where major change and reform occurred in the nation
While Ellis Island welcomed millions of immigrants on the east coast, this island welcomed millions of mainly Asian immigrants in San Francisco, CA
What is Angel Island?
Following the assassination of President Lincoln, this southern Democrat became the leader of the nation
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This 1867 legislation divided the former Confederate states, except Tennessee, into five military districts.
What are the Military Reconstruction Acts?
This Supreme Court decision in 1896 upheld racial segregation under the principle of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?