Reconstruction
This term describes the process of rebuilding the US after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
During the Civil War, this term referred to the states that remained loyal to the United States.
What is the Union?
These laws were passed by Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights and freedom of African Americans.
What are the Black Codes?
This term describes the growth of cities as increasing numbers of people moved from rural areas to urban areas.
What is urbanization?
These materials (including coal, iron, oil, and timber) provided the raw materials needed for American industrial growth.
What are natural resources?
President Lincoln issued this proclamation during the Civil War that declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territory to be free.
What is Emancipation?
This was the name given to the group of Southern states that broke away from the United States during the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
This system allowed farmers to work land owned by someone else in exchange for giving the landowner a portion of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
This term describes a country or region that has developed strong manufacturing and industrial production.
What is an industrial powerhouse?
This insect devastated cotton crops in the South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is the boll weevil?
This amendment officially abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This word means the act of formally withdrawing from an organization or country. Southern states did this before the Civil War.
What is secession?
This term was used for white Southerners who supported the Republican Party and Reconstruction after the Civil War.
What are Scalawags?
This term refers to the overall level of comfort, wealth, goods, and services available to a person or population.
What is standard of living?
This economic system allows individuals and businesses to own property and operate businesses with relatively limited government interference.
What is free enterprise?
This amendment established citizenship for people born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This federal agency was created after the Civil War to assist formerly enslaved people and poor Southerners with education, food, employment, and other needs.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This term was used by some Southerners to describe Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction, often with the implication that they were seeking economic opportunities.
What are Carpetbaggers?
This idea suggests that with hard work, determination, and opportunity, people can achieve economic success and improve their lives.
What is the American Dream?
This term refers to a large company or group of companies that has significant economic power and influence.
What is Big Business?
Congress passed this law in 1867, dividing the former Confederacy into military districts and requiring Southern states to meet certain requirements before rejoining the Union.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
President Andrew Johnson proposed this approach to restoring the Southern states to the Union. It was generally more lenient toward the former Confederacy than the plan later imposed by Congress.
What is Johnson's Restoration Plan?
This secret organization used violence and intimidation against African Americans and their supporters during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This invention allowed messages to be transmitted without physical wires by using radio waves.
What is wireless telegraph?
This business strategy occurs when a company buys or combines with other companies that produce the same type of product or operate at the same stage of production.
What is horizontal integration?