Important Amendments
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Ended slavery in America
He became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He was impeached, in part because of his efforts to obstruct Congress's plans for Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
This term means that the government should keep its “hands off” businesses and not regulate any business practices.
Laissez-Faire
A _____________ occurs when workers collectively agree to stop working in order to pressure employers to improve the working conditions.
Strike
What was the system of convict leasing?
People in prison could be made to work against their will and without pay
What did the 14th Amendment do?
Gave all people born in America citizenship
__________ was assassinated in Ford's Theater in Washington DC as he watched a play after the Civil War ended
Abraham Lincoln
This is a company that controls all of the production and sales of a specific good or service.
Monopoly
Andrew _________________ was a tycoon of the steel industry
Carnegie
What did the Compromise of 1877 do?
Led to the end of Reconstruction
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Gave all men the right to vote
This former Union general became the 18th president during the period of Reconstruction
Ulysses S. Grant
This involves the process by which one company might take over different stages of a production chain in order to minimize production costs.
Vertical Integration
Boss ____________ was the head of Tammany Hall, a political machine in New York City known for its graft
Tweed
This theory applied the principles of biological evolution to human society and argued that wealthy individuals were the "fittest"
Social Darwinism
What did the 18th Amendment do?
Ended the manufacturing and sale of alcohol (Prohibition)
Founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest, this is a white supremacist hate organization that terrorized African Americans after the Civil War.
The KKK
John D. Rockefeller was a famous industrialist who founded which of the following corporations, which took over 90% of the nation’s supply in his industry
Standard Oil
This was a new process used in the mass production of steel
Bessemer Process
Abraham Lincoln was the first president of this political party
The Republican Party
What did the 19th Amendment do?
Gave women the right to vote (1919)
This system developed in the South after the Civil War in which farmers paid landowners with a portion of their crops
Sharecropping
This is an organization of workers formed to protect the working conditions of their members.
Union
The transcontinental ____________ was heralded as an engineering marvel and connected the east coast to the west coast in a revolutionary way.
Railroad
The Supreme Court case Plessy vs. Ferguson determined that the principle of ____________ was legal.
Segregation