Reconstruction
Define Reconstruction
Period where the Southern States were readmitted to the Union.
Define Homestead Act
Offered settlers 160 acres of free land if they lived on it for 5 years.
Define Nativists
Citizens who opposed immigration because they feared losing their jobs.
Identify problems within factories
Long hours. Child labor. Bad working conditions.
Define Jim Crow Laws
Laws that forced segregation.
What was the main reason for conflict between the white settlers and native Americans during the period of westward expansion
White settlers were taking Native Americans lands.
Conflict between New Immigrants and Native born americans
Native born Americans felt that immigrants would take their jobs.
What workers are going to fix problems within factories.
Unions
Identify the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
13th amendment: Abolished slavery.
14th amendment: People born within the U.S. were guaranteed equal protection of laws.
15th amendment: Gave African American men the right to vote.
Purpose of Chinese exclusion act and national origins act
Tried to limit immigration.
Explain the supreme court case of Plessy v. Ferguson
Segregation was constitutional.