Civil War
At the start of the conflict, Abraham Lincoln's primary goal was to preserve this, rather than immediately ending slavery
Question: What is the Union?
Following the end of Reconstruction, these two discriminatory tactics were frequently used to deny African Americans access to the ballot box.
What are literacy tests and poll taxes?
Passed in 1882, this act of Congress completely suspended laborers from a specific Asian nation from entering the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
He successfully guided the Union through the Civil War but was tragically assassinated before he could implement his vision for Reconstruction.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle exposed the sickening, unsanitary conditions and rampant contamination inside this specific industry.
What is the meatpacking industry?
The Union's _______________ Plan aimed to "strangle" the South by blockading its ports and seizing control of this major waterway
Anaconda
After Reconstruction ended, Southern states used these specific legal exemptions help poor whites bypass the literacy tests.
Grandfather Clause
Celebrated heavily in 1870, this Constitutional Amendment guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied on account of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
This former leading Union general served as president during much of Reconstruction, though his administration was heavily plagued by corruption and scandals.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This famous muckraking journalist made her name by thoroughly exposing the ruthless and questionable business tactics of Rockefeller
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Issued in 1863, this executive action shifted the focus of the war from merely preserving the country to a moral crusade of ending slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
To resolve the disputed election, the Compromise of 1877 required the Republican party to remove these from the South.
What are federal troops?
To heavily restrict immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, the U.S. government later established these numerical limits,
What are quotas?
He took over Reconstruction after Lincoln's assassination, frequently clashed with Radical Republicans, and became the first U.S. president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson
This massive, "omnipotent" business organization, created by John D. Rockefeller, entirely dominated the American oil industry.
What is Standard Oil?
: He was the commanding general of the Confederate Army whose retreat at Antietam gave Lincoln the "victory" needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
This faction in Congress bypassed more lenient presidential plans to impose military occupation and harsher terms on the defeated Southern states.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This term describes the widespread hostility, prejudice, and anti-immigrant sentiment demonstrated by native-born Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is nativism?
Serving directly before Benjamin Harrison, this man oversaw Gilded Age labor unrest and remains the only other (besides Donald Trump) U.S. President to serve two non-consecutive terms.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
This specific term describes the replacement workers that Gilded Age industrialists aggressively hired to cross picket lines and break labor strikes.
What are scabs?
To maintain control in the North and border states, Lincoln controversially suspended this writ, allowing anti-Unionists to be jailed without a trial.
What is Habeas Corpus?
This 1896 Supreme Court decision legally reinforced the practice of racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Nativists who supported immigration restriction often argued that massive influxes of new arrivals caused severe overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in these urban apartment buildings.
What are tenements?
He won the highly disputed Election of 1876 and effectively ended Reconstruction by agreeing to withdraw federal troops from the South.
: Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
To break the power of labor unions, industrialists frequently hired scab labor and required workers to sign these contracts, promising never to join a union.
What are yellow-dog contracts?