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Which three amendments were helpful to African Americans after the Civil War?
13, 14, 15
Citizenship
15th Amendment?
voting rights
What was Plessy v Ferguson?
Separate but equal
What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief that the United States had the RIGHT and the DUTY to expand west.
How did the US government promote the move of citizens west?
The Homestead Act
Name the main conflict between white settlers and Native Americans?
claim to the land in the west
What conflict increased due to the large number of white settlers in the west?
The increase in conflict between Native Americans and white settlers
What was the policy for how the government treated Native Americans?
The government hoped they would be able to make the Native Americans more like them (Assimilation)
How did settlers' action affect the buffalo population?
They almost desolated the buffalo population
What type of economy rose after the civil war?
The United States saw a rise in the industrial capitalism
Why did the reconstruction era end?
The South was determined and the North gave up.
What were Northern European immigrants searching for west?
They were searching for jobs in agriculture and mining.
What is the Homestead Act?
a law passed by Congress in 1862 that gave government owned land in the West free to settlers willing to farm it. Settlers got 160 acres of land, but had to stay and farm the land for five years.
What group was most affected by the management ideas in the new industrial capitalism economy?
Factory workers
Why were settlement houses on the rise?
Mostly females were inspired by the Second Great Awakening
What was the goal of settlement houses?
Settlement houses were created to help immigrants adapt to American society
What was the response to the rise of immigrants into the United States?
Nativism advocated for the government to limit number of immigrants into the United States
How were Big Businesses able to create an unequal distribution of wealth?
consolidation of many companies into one (trusts and holding)
What policies would bosses of big businesses support?
Laissez-faire policies
What party was formed of mostly farmers?
Populist Party
Why did the populists party emerge?
The rise of big business control in agriculture
What were Muckrakers?
a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing.
Who is Upton Sinclair? What did he write about?
He is a muckraker who exposed the meatpacking industry in Chicago/His aim was to help the workers but instead his writings impacted the food safety industry
What were the results of the Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle?'
in 1906 President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known simply as the Wiley Act, a pillar of the Progressive era