Reconstruction
The President that was planning the Reconstruction even before the Civil War was over
Abraham Lincoln
The positive term for people like Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan
Titans of Industry
Bonus: What is the negative term for these people? (100)
An example of horizontal integration.
Rockefeller's Standard Oil
This world war happened at the beginning of the Progressive Era
WW1
This world war happened at the end of the progressive era
WW2
The agricultural labour system that replaced slavery in the South, but kept African Americans tied to the plantations.
Sharecropping
This French term meaning "let do" refers to a policy of minimal government intervention in the economy.
Laissez-faire
This term describes the belief that the rich were genetically superior and that helping the poor interfered with natural selection.
Social Darwinism.
This president was known as the "trust buster" for filing 45 antitrust suits, including against Northern Securities and Standard Oil.
Theodore Roosevelt
The other global superpower which emerged after WW2
USSR (Soviet Union)
The amendment that abolished slavery in the US
13th Amendment
The mass influx of immigrants into Northern cities were helped by, but also taken advantage of, by these local political groups
Political Machines
Bonus: give an example of a political machine (100)
This essay by Andrew Carnegie argued that the wealthy had a moral obligation to use their fortunes for public good.
Gospel of Wealth.
The era in which alcohol was banned.
The Prohibition Era
Bonus: What were the exceptions to this rule?
The Sherman Act and the Clayton Act tried to break these up.
Monopolies
These Southern laws passed under President Andrew Johnson restricted the freedom of Black Americans and created a loophole around the 13th Amendment.
Black codes
This 1892 strike at Carnegie's steel plant turned violent when Pinkerton detectives who were hired by Carnegie shot and killed striking workers.
Homestead Strike 1892
The agricultural crisis of the 1890s was made even worse when farmers did this.
Grew and produced more food.
The largest group of new immigrants during this time.
Southern and Eastern Europeans
This 1920 amendment granted women the right to vote.
19th Amendment.
He was the first Black U.S. senator, representing Mississippi and filling the seat once held by Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Hiram Revels
The Supreme court decision that declared segregation is lawful, as long as facilities are "separate but equal".
Plessy vs Fergusson 1896
Long working hours, unsafe conditions, low wages, labor unions, immigrants with radical ideas like socialism and anarchy, unequal wealth distribution
The reasons for labor strikes.
Bonus: name a labor union
Investigative journalists who wrote popular articles exposing working conditions, political corruption, and poverty.
Muckrakers
Bonus: who first called them this?
The court case that put Modern vs Fundamentalist Protestant views on trial in Tennessee, also known as the "Monkey Trial"
The Scopes Trial