Reconstruction
Way of farming where former slaves or poor white had to pay to rent the land and give the owner of the land some of the crops produced.
What is sharecropping?
When what you earn is low, have to work many hours, working conditions are poor and you cant save any money.
What is wage slavery?
Journalists who sought to expose the ills of society to promote change
Who are the muckrakers?
The two women suffargists featured in "Iron Jawed Angels"
Who were Alice Paul and Lucy Burns?
Tom, Ceci and Henry
Who are Ms Crowley's kids?
Got rid of slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
An industrialist who is ruthless, treats workers poorly and undercuts competition.
Who is a robber baron?
muckraker who wrote about unfair business practices and political corruption
Who is Ida Tarbell?
An inventor that undercut his competition and worked people long hours
Who was Thomas Edison?
President during Manifest Destiny
Who is James K Polk?
Racist group of white separatists who still exist today
What is the KKK (Ku Klux Klan)?
An industrialist who paid workers poorly but donated a lot of money after he died. He made his money in the steel industry in Pittsburgh.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Community Centers that taught English, religion and gave away food to poor.
What are the settlement houses?
Photogrpaher who published his photos in a book which revealed awful living conditions of the poor
Who is Jacob Riis?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Northerners who came to help the South during reconstruction, often opened up businesses or schools
What are carpetbaggers?
A strike that was broken up over and unsuccessful; involved steel mill workers in Pittsburgh.
What is the Homestead Strike?
A belief that you should promote God's work through deeds
What is Social Gospel?
He made most of his money with the railroads
Who is Vanderbilt?
Term for leaving and forming your own country
What is secession?
What are/is grandfather clause(s)?
Law that attempted to break up monopolies but had little enforcement and was used to break up strikes.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
An idea that rejected the notion that the poor should receive help, in society it was "survival of the fittest"
What is Social Darwinism?
President during Reconstruction
Who is Andrew Johnson?
One of the first things we studied in this class, tried to resolve the issue of slavery, was a failed compromise
What is the MO Compromise?