Reconstruction Amendments
The 13th Amendment...
(What did the 13th Amendment do?)
What is ends slavery (except for prison).
The period of rebuilding of The South after The Civil War was known as
What years?
Reconstruction
1865-1877
This Gilded Age law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost.
What is the Homestead Act?
Who ran the New York Political Machine?
What was the name of the man, who used a mafia like group called Tammany Hall, that used bribery and voter fraud to take advantage of immigrants and corrupt officials in government?
Who is Boss Tweed?
_____ was a term used to give jobs to political supporters. (also called the the Spoils System)
What is patronage?
The 14th Amendment...
(What did the 14th Amendment do?)
What is birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law
System of farming where farmers gave part of their crop to pay for the land they rented (also called debt-slavery)
What is Sharecropping?
These two groups of immigrants worked on the Railroads in the late 1800s.
Who are the Irish and the Chinese?
This Gilded Age reformer attacked political corruption through his famous cartoons.
Who is Thomas Nast?
a factor that brought immigrants to the U.S. throughout its history is a ______________.
Good things (+) happening in the United States.
Pull factor
The 15th Amendment...
(What did the 15th Amendment do?)
What is grant all men the right to vote?
Enfranchise all men
The purpose of literacy tests and grandfather clauses was to
What is limit the African American vote?
What transportation technology resulted in goods being transported across the country, an increase in the population of the west, and made travel across the country much easier and faster?
Transcontinental railroad
JP Morgan controlled the_________ industry; Rockfeller controlled the___________ industry; and Carnegie controlled the_________ industry.
What is Banking (Morgan); Oil (Rockefeller), Steel (Carnegie)?
This Gilded Age law created an examination and review commission for all government appointed jobs
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883?
These three constitutional amendments are considered the "Reconstruction Amendments" because they were passed during Reconstruction
13th,14th,15th Amendments
Laws that promote racial segregation in the South and limit the effectiveness of the 14th and 15th Amendments.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This invention sped up the production of steel, making steel more widely available.
This allowed for the building of the transcontinental railroad.
What is the Bessemer Process?
The rapid growth of cities due to the influx of people
What is urbanization?
A belief that native-born Euro-Americans were superior to newcomers/immigrants?
Newcomers should assimilate or not come at all.
What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?
What is granting rights to previously enslaved peoples?
What event ended Reconstruction?
What was included in this deal? What was the result?
the Compromise of 1877 or the Hayes-Tilden Agreement?
Withdrawal of troops in the south + Hayes becomes President.
This Gilded Age law took tribal reservation land, and assimilated the Indians.
What is the Dawes Act?
The goal was to assimilate Native American Indians into American culture and change all land from communal to private ownership.
In 1877 the Federal Government passed the _______ law in order to counteract unfair business practices that were harmful to small businesses.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
During the Gilded Age, did the Federal Government support big businesses/large corporations or small businesses?
Large Corporations
Remember the Government passed laws that favored large corporations over small businesses.
We call this Industrial protectionism. Big Businesses avoided regulation.