Reconstruction Plans
Lincoln's plan to have 10% of southern voters pledge loyalty to the United States and support emancipation.
10% Plan
A white supremacy organization of former Confederate soldiers that terrorized African Americans.
The Ku Klux Klan
1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor
Gilded Age
Organization of workers formed to protect the rights and interests of its members
Labor unions
The Radical Republicans main goal during Reconstruction
Punish the South
These laws created racial segregation in the South
Jim Crow Laws
The primary entry point for immigrants on the east coast
Ellis Island
Northern businessmen who went to the South to make money
Radical Republicans plan to have 50% of southern voters pledge loyalty to the United States
Wade-Davis Bill
This organization helped former slaves get housing, jobs, and education
The Freedmen's Bureau
The primary entry point for immigrants on the west coast
Angel Island
Southerners who supported the Union
Scalawags
President Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction
Calls for state conventions to repeal secession
Laws passed in southern states to limit the rights of African Americans
Black Codes
Name at least 3 of the 4 Industrial Tycoons that we looked at in class and what industry they owned
John D Rockefeller- Oil
Andrew Carnegie- Steel
Cornelius Vanderbilt- Railroads
J.P. Morgan- Finance/Banking
Former slaves working on plantations; very similar to slavery
Sharecropping
What was the Compromise of 1877 (name each part)
Republicans got Rutherford B Hayes as president
Democrats got occupying troops pulled out of the South
Officially ended Reconstruction Era
The first African American senator
Hiram Revels
Name at least three changes in labor rights that changed during the Gilded Age
Child Labor restrictions
8 hour work days
5 day work week
fair wages
minimum wage
safer working conditions
health benefits
List the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
13- Ended slavery across United States
14- Everyone born in the United States is a citizen
15- Voting rights for all freedmen