When did the Reconstruction Era happen?
The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877,
Who were the 2 presidents we talked about during Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
What were the three reconstruction plans?
Lincoln's Amnesty/10% Plan, Johnson's Restoration Plan, Radical Republican's Wade-Davis Bill
People moving from small villages to the towns and cities for factory jobs was known as...
"Separation of the races" is generally defined as....
Segregation
What does the word reconstruction mean?
The act of reconstructing, rebuilding, or reassembling, or the state of being reconstructed: the gigantic task of reconstruction after a fire.
What plan did Abraham Lincoln come up with during Reconstruction?
Amnesty Plan; 10% Plan
This reconstruction plan wanted African-Americans to have complete equality in America...
Low pay, long hours, and dangerous conditions all describes...
The working conditions of the Gilded Age
These laws set up segregation in the South...
Jim Crow Laws
This agency form the Reconstruction Period helped African Americans make the transition to freedom, specifically by distributed food, clothing, and jobs.
The Freedmen's Bureau
Unifying the United States as quickly as possible, forgiving the southerners, & keeping public support were all the goals of...
Abraham Lincoln
These 3 groups of people were all discriminated against in the south during the late 1800s...
African-Americans, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers
What is the difference between horizontal and vertical integration?
Vertical Integration is controlling all aspects of production, while horizontal integration is controlling all of a single aspect of production.
This amendment states that you cannot deny the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
15th Amendment
These laws were passed in the South just after the Civil War and they aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers; REASTBLISHED SLAVERY IN DISGUISE
Black Codes
What was Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction, and why was it particularly harsh on the former slaves?
Restoration, he didn't want to give former slaves anymore rights/he wanted former confederate generals to still be in charge.
These two voting restrictions often stopped African-Americans, and sometimes poor whites, from voting in the South...
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
How did the social roles of both women and children change in the Gilded Age?
The wealth of natural resources, the growing labor force, and new science and technology all allowed what to happen...
Industrial Revolution
This amendment gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws
14th Amendment
This act called for the creation of new militarily ran governments in the 10 southern states that had not ratified the 14th and 15th Amendment
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Describe the system of sharecropping....
Who were the 4 Titans of Industry we read about yesterday?...
Class Structure... List the 4 classes of the Gilded Age and give at least one popular job of each class...
Upper, Upper Middle, Lower Middle, Bottom/Lower.
Rich Business Families/ lawyers and doctors/ office workers, teachers, farmers/ factory workers