Reconstruction
The Reconstruction Amendments
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
The 1862 law that gave settlers free land if they agreed to live on and improve it.
What is the Homestead Act?
The transformation of an economy from farming-based to factory-based production.
What is industrialization?
Journalists during this era who exposed corruption and unsafe business practices.
What are muckrackers?
The 1898 war between the United States and Spain.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The President who introduced the 10% Plan for rebuilding the South.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The policy aimed at forcing Native Americans to adopt American culture.
What is assimilation?
The island in New York Harbor through which millions of immigrants entered the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is Ellis Island?
The amendment that banned the production and sale of alcohol in the United States.
The policy that claimed the United States would only support democratically elected governments.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
The hate group that used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from voting.
The 1887 law that divided tribal lands into individual family plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
Wealthy business leaders who used unethical practices to crush competition and maximize profits.
What are Robber Barons?
The movement that fought to give women the right to vote.
What is Women's Suffrage? OR What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
The foreign policy associated with Theodore Roosevelt that encouraged using military strength as a form of influence.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
The group in Congress that pushed for stricter punishment of the South during Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
Government-run schools designed to erase Native American culture and traditions.
What are Native American Boarding Schools?
A business structure in which one company controls most or all of an industry.
What is a monopoly?
The movement that pushed to reduce or ban alcohol, leading to Prohibition.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The Asian territory that fought the United States for independence after 1898.
The agreement that removed federal troops from the South and ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877
These workers drove cattle across long distances from Texas to railroads in the late 1800s.
Who are Cowboys?
A labor tactic in which workers refuse to work to demand better wages or conditions.
What is a strike?
The constitutional amendment that allowed citizens to directly elect U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
The explosion of this U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor helped lead the United States into war with Spain.
What is the USS Maine?