POLITICS AND POWER
Legislatures passed in order to restrict the rights of Black citizens.
Black Codes.
The main reason the South succeeded from the Union.
Disputes over slavery
The idea that it is Americans God-given right to expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny.
Jane Addams' solution to the influx of impoverished immigrants to the United States.
Settlement houses.
Economic strategy popularized during the Gilded Age, notable for its lack of restriction.
Laissez-faire economics.
This former president created the 10 percent plan.
Abraham Lincoln
Major debate over the overemphasized political, economic, and social loyalty to a region of a country rather than the country as a whole (i.e. Northern v. Southern regions).
Sectionalism.
System responsible for the efficient transportation, unity of citizens, and agricultural effects in America.
Railroads.
Corrupt and greedy groups of politicians that sought to gain immigrant support for future elections (i.e. Tammany Hall).
Political Machines.
Employment condition that prevented workers form striking/unionizing when working for a certain company.
Yellow-dog contract.
This decision established that those who owned slaves could transport their slaves to free states because they were “property.”
Dred Scott decision.
This agreement entered California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to practice popular sovereignty, banned the slave trade in Washington D.C., and created stricter fugitive slave laws.
The Compromise of 1850.
Philosophy the American economics were a "survival of the fittest" environment.
Social Darwinism.
Immigrants involved in the surge of immigration from 1890 to the start of World War I; mostly from southern and eastern Europe.
"new immigrants."
Workers' response to wages being cut at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Steel plant.
Homestead Strike.
Political party that wanted to end the spread of slavery to the West so the land could be for the white population.
Free Soilers.
Northern newcomers who went south after the Civil War to boast the newly earned rights of Black Americans.
Carpetbaggers.
Writer of stories conveying the "rags to riches" narrative as a result of hard work.
Horatio Alger.
This act allowed these two states to decide by popular sovereignty whether to be slave or free states. This ultimately led to violent confrontations.
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
Organization or board that manages the assets of other companies (i.e. Standard Oil).
Trust.
Name the three amendments in the U.S. Constitution that were ratified during the Reconstruction Era.
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
Panic of 1873.
People who sought to respond to and change the corrupt and detrimental systems, policies, and norms of the United States.
Reformers.
The first group to be prohibited from immigrated to the United States during the Gilded Age.
The Chinese.
Control of money by higher economic classes that widened the gap between America's rich and the poor.
Consolidation/Concentration of wealth.