Vocabulary
Emerging hate group that resulted as a response to the Reconstruction Amendments
What was the Ku Klux Klan
One of the issues that progressives fought to improve in the country.
What are working conditions/hours/education/race relations/prohibition/women's suffrage
This is what resulted from the ratification of the 13th Amendment
What was the abolishment of slavery
The word "Gilded" means
What is gold-plated
Corrupt New York Democratic politicians in the mid 1800s were know by this collective name.
What is Tammany Hall
What is the Free Enterprise System/Laissez-Faire Theory
Jacob Riis, a muckraker, published an expose titled "How the Other Half Lives" showcasing these cheaply made apartments
What are Tenements
This is what resulted from the 15th Amendment
What was African American male suffrage
During the Gilded Age, this group had more power than the President
Who were Captains of Industry/Robber Barons? (Big Business owners/trusts)
The Supreme Court case that established segregation as the law of the land in the United States
What was Plessy v. Ferguson
National labor union organized by skilled and unskilled workers alike
Who were the Knights of Labor OR who were the American Federation of Labor
Investigative Journalist, famous for his expose of a Chicago meat packing warehouse. "The Jungle"
Who was Upton Sinclair
Discriminatory laws directed at the disenfranchisement of African Americans
What were Jim Crow Laws
Taxes on foreign imports in order to incentivize American business
What are protective tariffs
Annie Oakley became a world wide star by performing in this.
What is Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
Investigative journalists that worked to reveal the issues within society
What were Muckrakers
The pieces of legislation passed in response to Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
What are the Meat Inspection Act/Pure Food and Drug Act
Lincoln's executive order 1863 was created to encourage the South to surrender and to encourage a slave insurrection during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation proclamation
These incentivized inventors to create their own inventions/ideas
What are patents
The system put in place in many southern states in order to keep freed slaves in similar situations and underneath land owners
What was sharecropping
Revolutionized industrial production by applying scientific principles to workflow, focusing on task subdivision and time-motion studies.
What is Taylorism
Two benefits of the annexation of Hawaii
What are military bases and profitable sugar plantations
This is the name given to the plan of Southern leaders to modernize the Southern economy after the Civil War but it never took off.
What is the New South.
The event that associated the Knights of Labor and all labor unions with violence
What was the Haymarket Riot
She was a key leader of the People's (Populist) Party.
Who is Mary E Lease