Reconstruction
Former Confederates adopted these laws limiting the freedom of former slaves.
Black Codes
This man was a Democrat and a former U.S. Senator from Tennessee.
Andrew Johnson
Immigration checkpoint for Europeans.
Ellis Island
This term refers to writers who exposed corruption in government and business.
Muckrakers
He made his fortune in the steel business.
Andrew Carnegie
Under this system a farmer worked a parcel of land in return for a share of the crop.
Sharecropping
This Union General became President in 1868 and worked to destroy the Ku Klux Klan.
U.S. Grant
John D. Rockefeller became a billionaire after he started this dominant company.
Standard Oil Company
This 1911 fire in NYC led to factory safety reforms.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
He urged African Americans to seek practical training in trades and professions.
Booker T. Washington
Name for Northern Republicans who came to the South during Reconstruction.
Carpetbaggers
This Democrat won the popular vote in 1876 and would not become president.
Samuel J. Tilden
This term refers to one company or trust that controls all of one type of business, eliminating competition.
Monopoly
This law broke up trusts and did not allow companies to have monopolies.
Sherman Antitrust Law
This infamous "boss" ran the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City during the 1860s and 70s.
William "Boss" Tweed
This organization distributed food and clothing, set up hospitals, and operated schools in the South following the war.
Freedmen's Bureau
This African American was elected to Congress as a Senator from Mississippi.
Hiram Revels
This 1882 law was passed in response to nativist fears of new immigrants.
Chinese Exclusion Act
In this 1906 novel Upton Sinclair wrote of "'splitters' who earned 50 cents an hour doing nothing but chopping hogs down the middle."
The Jungle
This female reformer established Hull House in Chicago, providing social services to immigrants and the poor.
Jane Addams
The Supreme Court upheld the idea of separate but equal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This Radical Republican from Pennsylvania proposed taking land from Southern planters and giving it to freedmen.
Thaddeus Stevens
This amendment to the Constitution led to the development of the federal income tax.
16th Amendment
Identify two goals of the Progressives.
Regulate big business, protect workers and consumers, expose corruption, promote social welfare, increase government involvement, break up trusts, etc.
One of first women in America to become a millionaire. She become rich on hair care products.
Madame C.J. Walker