Civil War & Reconstruction
What was the main cause of the Civil War?
What idea encouraged Americans to move West because they believed it was their destiny?
Manifest Destiny
What new source of power helped spur Industrialization in the late 1800s?
Electricity
Where Immigrations were processed when they arrived on the East Coast
Ellis Island
Double Jeopardy!
What were people mainly protesting during the Labor Movement?
low wages, long hours, and unsafe work conditions
Which document, issued by Abraham Lincoln 1863, freed enslaved people in Confederate states?
Emancipation Proclamation
Which law gave Americans free law if they agreed to lived there for 5 years?
The Homestead Act
Which term describes the combination of companies to reduce competition?
Monopoly
Where did most immigrants arrive from in the late 1800s?
Southern and Eastern Europe
What is a labor union?
An organization formed to protect workers rights
Which three Constitutional Amendments are considered "The Reconstruction Amendments"?
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Double Jeopardy!
Irish and Chinese Immigrants
Which term describes how Industrialization changed cities in the late 1800s?
Urbanization
What is the belief that native born Americans are superior to immigrants?
Nativism
Which protest ended with a violent explosion in Chicago in 1886?
Haymarket Riot
What was the focus of the Reconstruction Era?
Rebuilding the South and ensuring rights and freedoms for the Freedmen
Forced relocation, loss of land, and destruction of their cultural and religious practices.
What is vertical integration?
When a company controls all stages of production
Housing during the Gilded age that is described as dark, dirty, and cramped
Tenement Housing
Which labor activist was seen as a symbol for resistance and was the founder of the Industrial Workers in the World Union?
Eugene Debs
How did Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws undermine the Reconstruction Amendments?
They restricted rights and freedoms through constitutional loopholes
How did government policies like the Dawes Act attempt to assimilate Native Americans?
Which terms describes the "hands-off" approach government took to business in the late 1800s?
Laissez-Faire economics
How did immigration contribute to the success of Industrialization?
Provided the labor force
How did the government usually respond to labor strikes in the late 1800s?
By siding with business owners and using force to end strikes