Vocabulary
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th amendment
Why Lincoln wanted his 10% plan to be lenient on the South.
Lenient so former Confederate states would be more willing to reintegrate into the Union/not start another rebellion.
This is how monopolies negatively affect small businesses.
What is they eliminate competition and drive smaller companies out of business?
This term describes the fear or distrust of immigrants.
What is nativism?
The conditions for becoming a citizen according to the 14th amendment.
What is "born or naturalized"?
14th amendment
Which amendment guarenteed equal citizenship regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?
This landmark Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This philosophy, promoted by Andrew Carnegie, argued that the wealthy had a duty to use their riches for the good of society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Chinese Exclusion Act.
Which law banned Chinese immigration into the US from 1882-1942?
This industrialist invented the assembly line to help with mass production, lowering the cost of automobiles.
Who was Henry Ford?
The Freedmen's Bureau (its three jobs).
Which government agency was created to assist formerly enslaved people with education, legal assistance, and helped separated families reunite?
This agreement ended Reconstruction and led to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This industrialist was the founder and owner of Standard Oil Co.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This group active from 1915 to the 1930s, expanded its hatred to include immigrants, Jews, and Catholics.
Who was the Ku Klux Klan?
This inventor created the first commercially viable electric lightbulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This white supremacist group used violence and intimidation to suppress African American rights during Reconstruction.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
These terms describe industrialists who were viewed positively for their philanthropy and fair business practices AND who were seen as ruthless and exploitative.
Who were Captains of Industry and Robber Barons?
These were three reasons nativism increased in the late 19th century.
What are fear of job competition, distrust of foreign cultures and religions, and racist attitudes toward immigrants?
These factors attracted immigrants to the United States.
What are job opportunities, safety, religious and political freedom, and following family and friends?
Industrialization.
What is the rise of factories and a manufacturing based economy?
These were the three main goals of Reconstruction.
1) Readmitting former Confederate states to the Union
2) Integrating former slaves into society
3) Figuring if Congress or the President were in charge of Reconstruction
Monopoly.
What is eliminating business competition to dominate a market?
These factors pushed immigrants to leave their home countries.
What are war, unemployment, famine, and poverty?
Profit motive, competition, capitalism (their definitions)
companies trying to make more profit leads to innovation (new and better products to sell)
Businesses aim to maximize profit (make more money) at the least cost to produce (as cheap as possible)
trade and industry controlled by private owners