Political group within Congress that disagreed with President Johnson and was for a full Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
100
The name of the battler where General Custer and his 250 men were slaughtered by the Sioux led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
100
Free enterprise where most businesses are privately owned.
What is capitalism?
100
The idea of only favoring native-born Americans.
What is nativism?
100
Unorthodox group that controlled the actions of a political party within a city.
What is a political machine?
200
(1) White southerners who supported Reconstruction (2) Northerners who came to the South to help with Reconstruction.
What is (1) scalawags (2) Carpetbaggers?
200
This group of people were forced to move to cities and find work due to industrialization and the railroad.
Who are farmers?
200
(1) capitalism without government influence. (2) Risk taking business owners in a capitalist system.
What is (1) laissez-faire (2) entrepreneur?
200
Mixture of cultures combining into one, American culture.
What is a melting pot?
200
(1) The illegal use of political influence for personal gain (2) Giving of government jobs to people who helped a candidate get elected.
What is (1) graft (2) patronage?
300
System where prisoners (mostly African-American) were given unfair/fake jail sentences and used as cheap slave labor.
What is convict leasing?
300
One industry that boomed because of the railroad.
What is steel; oil; coal.
300
Theory that the best will naturally rise to the top in big business - "survival of the fittest"
What is Social Darwinism?
300
Campaign to assimilate immigrants into American culture, free from their native culture.
What is the Americanization Movement?
300
The leader of New York City's political machine Tammany Hall?
Who is Boss Tweed?
400
Two elements of President Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
What is Pardoned southerners who swore allegiance to the Union; Permitted each state to hold a constitutional convention; States were to abolish slavery and pay the Confederate debt accumulated in the civil war; States could hold elections and rejoin the Union.
400
One change that occurred in American society due to industrialization.
What is immigration; people in rural areas move to urban areas; mass production; growing economy; more jobs?
400
Law banning any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
Two motivations for immigrants migrating to America.
What is work on the railroad; gold rush; religious persecution; rising populations; political/social turmoil; work opportunities.
400
One thing a political boss controlled or influenced.
What is Controlled access to municipal jobs and business licenses; Influenced courts and other municipal agencies; Could provided government support for businesses.
500
Two elements of the Reconstruction Plan of 1867 (Republican Plan).
What is Nullified Lincoln/Johnson plans; Passes 14th Amendment; Divided South in 5 military districts; Southern states must ratify all previous acts set forth by Republicans for statehood?
500
Two reasons for Native American conflict on the Great Plains.
What is industrial development; expansion; More settlers; bad treaties; fight to protect land by the Native Americans?
500
(1) Industrialists that dominated the steel industry (2) Industrialists that dominated the oil industry.
Who is (1) Andrew Carnegie (2) John D. Rockefeller?
500
(1) San Francisco schools segregate Japanese; to lift segregation, Japanese agree that no more unskilled workers can migrate to the US (2) Stopped immigration from China for 10 years.
What is (1) Gentleman's Agreement (2) Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
A group (or groups) of people that were taken advantage of by political machines