Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era
What group thought the South should be punished more harshly and required radical political and social reform by military means?
hint: advocated for military reconstruction, hated Johnson
Radical Republicans
What act contributed to westward expansion during the Gilded Age by giving plots of land to families for cheap but requiring them to stay on it for 5 years and bettering the land?
Homestead Act
What was the event in which a bomb was thrown at the police at a Knights of Labor protest for 8 hour work days?
Haymarket bombing
What act forced Native American families onto individual land allotments from their usual tribe lands in order to assimilate them into American culture?
Dawes Act of 1887
What was one of the first immigration restrictions that prohibited the continued immigration of Chinese to the U.S.?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Name one negative piece of legislation or occurrence in the South that harmed African Americans during this period
- Jim Crow Laws
- Black codes
- Sharecropping
- Literacy tests/voter registration laws/poll tax
- KKK, lynchings, violence
- Plessy vs Ferguson
What was it called when a company bought up all the other companies in the same industry?
horizontal integration
What act marked the shift from Laissez Faire policies and outlawed monopolistic business practices but was largely unsuccessful?
Sherman Anti-trust Act
What was the major economic depression that Cleveland entered into upon his second election?
Panic of 1893
What movement took hold during this time period in which women became heavily involved that sought to outlaw alcohol?
Name one positive piece of legislation that supported African Americans during this period
- 13th, 14th, 15th amendments
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Civil Rights Act of 1875
What acts were passed in response to the corruption in the railroad industry?
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
Name a Union that formed in response to the Labor injustices
- Knights of Labor
- National Labor Union
- American Federation of Labor
What was the reform made by Jane Addams for immigrants?
creation of the Hull House
What social class grew and experienced more leisure time during this time period? (not the rich)
middle class
What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
The 10% plan
What act resulted from the assassination of president James A. Garfield and the corruption in political parties?
Pendleton Act
What was a belief that resulted from the new class of rich industrialists (multiple possible responses)?
ex. the belief that the rich got their money from their natural abilities and talents so the poor had no abilities or talents
- Social Darwinism
- Social Gospel
- Gospel of Wealth
What was it called when the Republican Congress retained massive surpluses from the high tariffs from the Civil War and the McKinley tariff leading to the formation of the Populist party and the reelection of Cleveland?
hint: B______ D________ C_______
Billion Dollar Congress
Describe one way culture and city life changed during this period in general
- cities grew bigger, "walking city"
- more industrial jobs
- higher quality of life - electricity, indoor plumbing, telephones
- era of consumerism
- class segregation
- more jobs for women
- formation of the slums, overcrowding, lack of sanitation
- more immigrants, nativism
What ultimately ended the Reconstruction era?
Compromise of 1877
What was an example of corruption under Grant's administration?
- Credit Mobilier Scandal
- Whiskey Ring
- the Tweed Ring
- Fisk and Gould Scandal
Who was one of the main wealthy industrialists in this period?
- Andrew Carnegie
- John D. Rockefeller
- JP Morgan
What party was formed by farmers and the working class in response to unfairness by corporations and government injustice?
hint: they advocated for free silver, graduated income tax, secret ballot and referendum, public ownership of railroads, telegraphs, telephones, etc.
the Populist Party
Where were the new immigrants from?
Southern and Eastern Europe (as well as parts of Asia)