Reconstruction
For reconstruction, there were this many plans to bring the South back into the Union.
What is three?
The Assassination of this president led to the start of reconstruction
Lincoln
This invention revolutionized travel, and would eventually become the most used method of transportation in American History
What is the Car?
This invention would revolutionize light, and make it cheaper and more efficient to utilize energy and a small bamboo filament to create light.
What is the lightbulb?
Alcohol
This group of people wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction.
Who were Radical Republicans?
This president was impeached for breaking the rules trying to fire the Secretary of War without congressional approval.
Johnson
Many children would work in this setting during the late 1800s, often leading to lost limbs and disease due to poor working conditions.
What were factories?
Eventually workers would form these after years of poor working condiditions in hopes of creating change.
What were labor unions?
a Type of Journalism that Stretches' a story to fit a specific goal
Yellow Journalism
This amendment officially ended slavery and was required for seceded states to join back into the Union.
What was the 13th amendment?
granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”
14th Amendment
This term indicates that an entire industry is dominated by one business or corporation.
What is a monopoly?
This term refers to the rapid growth of cities in America due to the growing factory systems and advancement in technology.
What is urbanization?
This term was the idea that voting would be extended to more than just males in the United States.
What is women's sufferage?
These laws were ways for Southerners to try and discriminate against and negatively affect the newly freed African American's lives.
What were Jim Crow laws?
a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit
Scalawag
This Robber Baron or Captain of Industry was known for starting an oil empire and would help his workers after establishing his wealth.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This form of crowded living was commonplace for life during the late 18th century.
What were tenements?
The NAACP does this for Americans.
What is fight for civil rights for African Americans?
This court case would establish the idea of segregation with the phrase "separate but equal."
What was Plessy v. Fergusson?
opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, who were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain
Carpetbagger
This business mogul was known for his wealth building through the railroad and steamboat industries and would later found a university and have it named after him.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
The name of this tragic event turned out to be the deadliest factory disaster to take place in New York and resulted in the death of 146 people.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
This term was used for journalist who exposed corruption in businesses and the government at the turn of the 20th century.
What is a muckraker?
A "hands off" approach to government and economics.
Laissez Faire