Reconstruction
For reconstruction, there were this many plans to bring the South back into the Union.
What is three?
This term indicates that an entire industry is dominated by one business or corporation.
What is a monopoly?
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?
This concept, outlines why an individual would want to leave a country.
What are push factors?
This concept was pushed during the progressive era, and led to many states requiring kids to attend school.
What is compulsory education?
This group of people wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction.
Who were Radical Republicans?
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?
Eventually workers would form these after years of poor working condiditions in hopes of creating change.
What were labor unions?
This concept outlines why someone would move to a particular country.
What are pull factors?
This concept allowed citizens of a state or local government to make decisions without involving government officials.
What is a referendum?
This amendment officially ended slavery and was required for seceded states to join back into the Union.
What was the 13th amendment?
Name one invention that lead to the urbanization of the United States and changed American society during the Gilded Age.
What is the electricity, lightbulb, telephone, skyscraper, automated sewing, typewriter, telephone?
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 means to adapt or change to a different culture.
What is assimiliation?
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?
This is the reason this time in America is called the Gilded Age.
What is "everything looked fine and dandy, but deep down there were real problems"?
This form of crowded living was commonplace for life during the late 18th century.
What were tenements?
This island on the West Coast would be where most immigrants would come into the country during the turn of the 20th century.
What was Angel Island?
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?
This court case would establish the idea of segregation with the phrase "separate but equal."
What was Plessy v. Fergusson?
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 means to have hatred and fear of immigrants and immigration.
What is Nativism?
The NAACP does this for Americans.
What is fight for civil rights for African Americans?