1860
What are the black codes?
Laws passed in the south after the civil war, that eploit AA workers.
What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th do?
13th- Abolish Slavery
14th- Made AA citzens
15th- Forbade the federal gov. from denying suffrage to anyone of color, race, or previous condition of servitude.
What act made the chinese population in the US decrease.
The chinese exclusion act.
In the spanish american war, what territories did the US aquire after?
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What amendment gave us the right to interven in cuba's constitution?
The Platt amendment.
Describe the KKK
A violent militant group. Formed in 1866 to attempt to resist the emancipatin of slaves. Invloved with lynchings of blacks.
What group helped create schools, and feed AA after the civil war?
Freedmens Bureau.
What does the saying 'passing of the frontier' mean?
This basically means that people had thought that the west was still unsettled, giving peopel the chance to move to the west. But people found that this was not true, so many found it as a loss, like they could not dream.
What treaty ended the Spanish-American war?
The treaty of Paris.
The US wanting to expand its territory is called?
Imperialism.
What was Lincolns plan after reconstruction?
He wanted a 10% plan, slowly emancipate slaves, and slowly make them citzens. Congress wanted to do more.
What is Brooker T Washinton known for?
The Hudson River School. Both are art schools.
What did the AFL support?
Mainly supported better wages and working conditions. They did not let women or blacks into this organization.
What book made TR take a closer look at meat factories? And what was the act that followed it?
The Jungle, and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
What is the Homestead act?
Would give any settler 160 acres of land for a small fee. This would help get people to move west.
What did the compromise of 77' do?
This settled the 1876 election. Hayes agreed to have troops removed from the south if he became pres.
What happened in the Haymarket Riot?
Union workers gatherd in Haymarket Sq. the police showed and a riot broke out. Someone threw a bomb into the crowd (no one knows who) killing or injuring many police.
Who are the Molly Maguires?
They are a militant labor organization. They were the radical labor group that used violence and occasionally murder to get what they were looking for.
Who was one of the founders of NAACP?
W.E.B. De Bois
What is the Morill Land Grant Act?
The government would sell public land, and use the moeny to fund public education.
In the plessy v. ferguson case the court declares:
That the seperate accomidations do not derive blacks from equal.
Explian the gospel of wealth.
Andrew Carnegie believed that the wealthy should give there money to charties to help the poor. Bsically spread the wealth.
What is social darwinism?
natural selection amoung species in human society.
Jane Adams is social reformer, and one thing that she is known for is building the...
Setlement houses.