Civil War/
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
The Union’s military strategy, aimed at blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River to split the Confederacy.
The Anaconda Plan.
This policy aimed to integrate Native Americans into American society by encouraging them to adopt farming, education, and European/ American customs.
Assimilation
The Major economic problems facing farmers (name at least one).
Unfair shipping rates
“Middlemen” who forced farmers to sell at a low price
Inflation
Natural disasters
International Competition
This Inventor is credited with creating the practical electric lightbulb and establishing the first electrical power distribution system.
Thomas Edison
These three Constitutional Amendments abolished slavery, granted citizenship rights, and protected voting rights for African American men, respectively.
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments.
Advantages and disadvantages of the north and the south (name at least one).
The North had Railroads, Navy, Factories, Population
The South had more land, and were on defense
Completed in 1869, this major infrastructure project connected the eastern US with the West Coast, accelerating westward expansion.
The Transcontinental Railroad
This late 19th century movement started as a social and educational group for farmers to combat economic challenges and eventually pushed for political reforms.
The Granger Movement
This process revolutionized steel production by making it faster and cheaper, fueling industrial growth in the late 19th century.
Bessemer Process
This Integration strategy involves combining companies that produce similar products to reduce competition.
Horizontal Integration
This federal agency was created during reconstruction to provide food, housing, medical aid, and education to former slaves in the south.
The Freedmen’s Bureau.
The belief that the United Sates was divinely ordained to expand its dominion across the entirety of North America.
Manifest Destiny
This political party, known as “the People’s Party, stemmed from the Granger Movement and Farmers alliances, and was later merged with the Democratic Party.
The Populist Party
This type of business integration involves controlling every step of production from raw materials to finished products and delivery.
Vertical Interation
This movement among Protestant Christians during the late 19th century emphasized using Christian ethics to address social problems like poverty and inequality.
Social Gospel
This term describes the period after Reconstruction when racial violence, segregation, Jim Crow laws, and discriminations against Black Americans reached its peak.
The Nadir
Westward expansion, and war against native Americans led to the decline in population of this American animal.
Buffalo or Bison
Populist Party Platform (Name at least one).
Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver
Direct election of Senators
Secret Ballots
Graduated Income Tax
Government ownership of Railroads
8-hour work day
This Theory, often applied to business and society during industrialization, justified competition and the survival of the fittest in economics.
Social Darwinism
This economic system, characterized by private ownership and free markets, was dominant during the industrial expansion of the United States.
Capitalism
This system replaced slavery economically by having freedmen work land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crop.
Sharecropping
Passed in 1887, this law divided tribal lands into plots to encourage Native Americans to farm and abandon communal land ownership.
The Dawes Act
Many ideas from the Populist Party were later adopted by this early 20th-century reform movement.
The Progressive Era
This Industrialist used Vertical Integration to build a steel empire and became one of the richest men in history.
Andrew Carnegie
In response to monopolies and unfair business practices, the government eventually passed laws to increase this over big corporations.
Government regulation.