Reconstruction
Became President after Lincoln's assassination
Who was Andrew Johnson?
A company that eliminates competition to control 1 industry
What is a monopoly?
Category of reason immigrants to move to a new country
What is a pull factor?
Linked the country from East to West
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
Day that celebrates the official end of slavery in the US; marks the day those enslaved in Galveston, Texas learned that they were free
What is Juneteenth?
Established in the Reconstruction Era to assist formerly enslaved people in transitioning to citizenship
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Government document that guaranteed an inventor all of the profits of their invention
What is a patent?
Form of housing where many immigrants in cities lived; crowded and unsanitary
What is tenement living?
Railroad labor came mostly from these two groups, which did not receive equal treatment
Who were the Chinese and the Irish?
Discriminatory laws passed by states during the Reconstruction Era
What are black codes?
Amendments passed during the Reconstruction Era that outlawed slavery, gave citizenship and equal protection to all under the law, gave African American men the right to vote
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
A process where 1 company takes control of all its competitors in an industry
What is horizontal integration?
Immigration station that processed and detained Asian immigrants, particularly Chinese immigrants
What is Angel Island?
Boarding school for Native American children in order to assimilate them into American society
What was the Carlisle Indian School?
Politicians that felt Lincoln's Reconstruction plan was not harsh enough; impeached Johnson
Radical Republican
Name for Lincoln's Reconstruction plan that pardoned some southerners, required part of the population to pledge allegiance to the US, and required the emancipation of the enslaved
What is the 10% plan?
A process by which 1 company takes control of all of the stages of making a product
What is vertical integration?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: WHY WAS THE GILDED AGE CALLED THE GILDED AGE?
Called the "Gilded Age" because gilding is putting gold on cheap metal, symbolizing the image of wealth covering up the poverty and corruption underneath
Native American movement to resurrect the buffalo and a great storm that would end white settlement in the US
What is the Ghost Dance?
A self-appointed law enforcer in the West who punished outlaws and eliminated corruption
Who are vigilantes?
The major failure of reconstruction was that it set up institutions of
What is racism?
Policy where the government is minimally involved in economics
What is Laissez-faire policy?
Political organization that helped immigrants and the poor in New York City; run by Boss Tweed
What is Tammany Hall?
People who were given 160 acres of public land essentially for free, as long as they lived on the land, bettered it (farming), and paid a registration fee; once this was accomplished they owned the land
Who were homesteaders?
Native American chief who resisted white settlement by refusing to live on reservations; was killed by the US police
Who was Sitting Bull?