Reconstruction
Voting Rights & Jim Crow
Immigration & Urbanization
Big Business & Gilded Age
Vocabulary
100
In his First Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln declared he had no intention to interfere with slavery where it already existed to achieve this main goal.
What is to reassure the South and avoid civil war?
100
This 1870 constitutional amendment prohibited federal or state governments from denying male citizens the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
100
What is the famous symbol of Freedom many immigrants saw as they checked in at Ellis Island
What is the Statue of Liberty?
100
Passed in 1882, this law suspended Chinese laborers from entering the United States for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
This 1865 amendment permanently abolished slavery and involuntary servitude across all U.S. states and territories.
What is the 13th Amendment
200
This economic system, which trapped families in a cycle of debt, was widely adopted in the South because landowners wanted to keep control of their land.
What is sharecropping?
200
After Reconstruction, Southern states passed these two specific barriers to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
What are literacy tests and poll taxes?
200
This term describes multi-story, overcrowded, and unsafe urban apartment buildings that grew rapidly during the late 1800s.
What are tenements?
200
This famous NYC Democratic political machine was led for a time by "Boss" Tweed and was known for political corruption and graft.
What is Tammy Hall?
200
The mass movement of people from agricultural, rural areas to expanding, densely populated cities.
What is Urbanization?
300
The 1876 presidential election ended with a compromise that resulted in this major political change in the South.
What is the end of Reconstruction (or the removal of Union troops from the South)?
300
This 1896 Supreme Court ruling provided legal support for Jim Crow laws by declaring that "enforced separation of the races" did not violate the 14th Amendment.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
Photographs of hazardous, filthy living conditions in city apartments were primarily published for this purpose.
What is to raise public awareness of tenement conditions?
300
Political cartoons depicting the U.S. Senate surrounded by giant money-bags representing trusts showed that senators were serving the interests of this group.
What is big business (or monopolies/trusts)?
300
The rapid transition of an economy from manual, agricultural production to large-scale, factory-based machine manufacturing.
What is industrialization?
400
In 1867, Frederick Douglass observed that Southern leaders held onto this resource "with all the tenacity of a cherished superstition" to maintain power over freedmen.
What is land?
400
This famous three-word phrase is most closely associated with the legal doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is "separate but equal"?
400
This group of Americans strongly opposed open immigration and advocated for laws limiting foreign-born workers.
What are nativists?
400
Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie was criticized for hypocrisy in political cartoons because he donated money to build public libraries while doing this to his own workers.
What is cutting their wages?
400
The act of permanently relocating to a new country with the intention of settling and building a life there.
What is immigration?
500
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1868, guaranteed birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law for all persons born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson reinforced this systemic practice throughout the South.
What is racial segregation?
500
Historically, the largest waves of immigrants arrived in the United States during periods marked by this domestic condition.
What is economic growth in the United States?
500
Criticisms of Andrew Carnegie's "double role" as both a philanthropist and a harsh employer peaked during this major 1892 industrial labor dispute.
What is the Homestead Strike?
500
The post-Civil War period focused on rebuilding and readmitting Southern states to the Union while integrating freed African Americans into national life.
What is Reconstruction?