Gilded Age
Which individual made their fortune with oil?
John D. Rockefeller
What is the difference between Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws?
Black Codes: restricted basic rights
Jim Crow: segregation laws
What Supreme Court case promoted the idea of "separate but equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Which amendment said that citizens may not be prevented from voting because of race or previous status as a slave?
15th Amendment
Give three examples of groups of people that moved to urban areas?
Which individual created Hull Houses to help educate and counsel immigrants?
Jane Addams
Which battle allowed the Union to control the Mississippi River and divide the Confederacy into two?
Vicksburg
What stated that all slaves in the Confederate states should be freed?
Emancipation Proclamation
The main goal of Reconstruction was to....
Readmit the former Confederate states into the Union
What was the North's economy based on?
Industry
Which type of economic philosophy means that government does not interfere in business practice?
Laissez-faire
Who was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces battled for control of a state and gave it this nickname
Bleeding Kansas
After the Civil War, the Freedmen's Bureau was set up primarily to help which group of people?
Former Slaves
Describe the difference between captain of industry vs. robber barons
Captains: positive interpretation of businessmen
Robber: negative interpretation
What group of people were most supportive of government regulation of the railroad industry?
Farmers
Which battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War?
Gettysburg Address
What was passed in order to regulate the railroad industry?
Interstate Commerce Act
Which act dealt with the expansion of slavery into new territories?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 allowed public land to be set aside for what purpose?
To create colleges
The Chinese Exclusion Act was created in response to what?
Chinese immigrants keeping the wages down
Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place?
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Which act was created by the U.S. government to weaken the identity and landholdings of Native Americans?
Dawes Act
Which group wanted to punish Confederate states by making it difficult for them to re-enter the Union?
Radical Republicans
What was the name given to Northerners who came to the South during the Reconstruction with the hopes of financial gain?
Carpetbaggers