Vocab 1
A government agency to help former slaves, such as education, food, shelter.
What is Freedman’s Bureau
Movement of population from farms to urban areas or cities.
Urbanization
Set standards for construction and safety
What is building codes
Towns that sprang up due to a boom in gold
What are boom towns
The era following the Civil War, known as rebuilding.
What is reconstruction
Formal charges against the president.
What is impeach
A speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
What is the Gettysburg Address
Founded by Jane Addams- it is a settlement house that provided services to the poor.
What is the Hull House
Governmental pardon
What is amnesty
A railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast
What is the transcontinental railroad
Voters were required to pay a fee each time they voted.
What is poll tax
journalist who exposed corruption and bad business practices.
What is a Muckracker
Blocked Chinese laborers from entering the country
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
Renting and farming a plot of land in exchange for a share of the crop at harvest.
What is sharecropping
Laws that separated people in public places in the south.
What are the Jim Crow Laws
Supreme Court ruling that said segregation was legal
Plessy v. Furguson
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment
Mistreatment and punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs.
What is persecution
Limited area set aside for American indians.
What are reservations
Giving governments jobs as a reward for political support
What is Patronage
A political party in the United States to keep slavery out of the western Territories.
Free-soil Party
The right of the people to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery
Process of adapting to a new culture and making changes while holding on to older traditions.
What Is Acculturation
Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes were enacted by Southern States to
What is to restrict the voting rights of African Americans
Name 2 strengths of the North and 2 strengths of the South
N=railroads, industries,large population
S=defensive, knew the land,better morale