The Civil WAR
General Winfield Scott proposed a plan to cut off Southern Ports with a naval blockade and slowly strangle the South into Submission.
Anaconda Plan
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments are collectively known as the
Reconstruction Amendments
Promised settlers 160 acres for free if they farmed it for five years.
The Homestead Act
when a company grows by buying its competitors. Rockefeller was known for using this.
Horizontal Integration
generally having 3 purposes to obtain higher wages, better working conditions, and shorter work hours
Labor Unions
post-Civil War – 1930 migration of people from farming areas to cities and towns.
Urbanization
investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business and government and publicized it in books, newspapers and magazines.
Muckrakers
this provided the U.S. Navy and ocean-going trade quicker transit between the Atlantic and the Pacific
Panama Canal
laws that enacted harsh punishments against anyone who opposed or criticize the war efort during WWI
Espionage and Sedition Acts
This Battle was a turning point in the war, fulfilling the Anaconda Plan
Battle of Vicksburg
Led by Thaddeus Stevens, they wanted to Punish the south and grant civil rights to freedmen
Radical Republicans
Transcontinental Railroad
Bessemer Process
The ARU the railroads largest union united for a strike against their employer and ended in failure led by Eugene Debbs
Pullman Strike
Provided social services to immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes. Led to massive corruption in city and state governments
Political Machine
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
This event sparked the Spanish American War.
"Remember the ___________"
USS Maine
Law passed in 1917 authorizing a draft of young men for military service
Select Service Act
This slave sued the Supreme Court to obtain his freedom after moving to a free state but was denied because he was considered property and not a citizen
Dred Scott
These laws restricted and limited the rights of Freedmen in the South
Black Codes
delivered by William Jennings Bryan in support of bimetallism.
Cross of Gold Speech
Multiplex Telegraph
Granville Woods
Wages were cut at Carnegie Steel Plant. Strike turned violent after workers were replaced by scabs.
Homestead Strike
this law placed a ban on the immigration of Chinese skilled and unskilled laborers to the United States for a period of ten years.
The Chinese Exclusion Act
helped the poor and immigrants of the cities to assimilate, find jobs and learn english
Settlement Houses
Imperialism
Certifcates sold by the United States government to pay for the war.
War Bonds
Industrial, Anti-Slavery, Pro-Federal Government
North
Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War
Scalawags
Sell-off of Indian reservation land as long as Natives agreed to Assimilate to Mainstream American Culture
Dawes Act
He invented the first telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
The belief that native-born Americans were superior to others and that immigrants and their diverse cultural influences were undesirable. European immigrants came through
Nativism
Asian Immigrants came through
Angel Island
Wrote an expose on Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company
Ida Tarbell
He wrote, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History"
Alfred Thayer Mahan
A limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use to help conserve resources for war efort
Rationing
The 16th President of the United States who's main goal was the preserve the Union
Abraham Lincoln
This case legalized Jim Crow laws. The Supreme Court stated that "separate but equal" was lawful
Plessy v. Ferguson
US Army Massacre of 300 Indian women and children after the Ghost Dance was performed
Wounded Knee
when a company buys their suppliers, controlling all parts of manufacturing. Used by Andrew Carnegie
Vertical Integration
Founder of the American Railway Union who was arrested after a labor strike and later becomes a socialist
Eugene Debbs
European immigrants came through
Ellis Island
Wrote "The Jungle" and it led to the Meat Inspections Act a
Upton Sinclair
The armed conflict in which the United States intervened to assist Cuba in gaining its independence and led the US to becoming a World Power
Spanish American War
Brought an end to WWI.
Imposed harsh penalties on Germany including losing much of its territory, signing a War Guilt Clause and required to pay large reparations.
Included the League of Nations.
The Treaty of Versailles
Agricultural, Pro-Slavery, Pro States Rights
South
a Northerner who moved to the South after the U.S. Civil War, especially during the Reconstruction era, in order to profit from the instability and power vacuum that existed at this time.
carpetbagger
A political party that was created from the Grange and Farmers Alliance Organizations
Populist Party
This invention increased productivity
The lightbulb
a system of government where workers have some ownership and the government has the other
Socialism
Tragedy that revealed unsafe working conditions on factories
Triangle Shirtwaste Factory Fire
Known as the "Trust Buster" he was president during the Progressive Era. Promising Americans a square deal with fair play and equality.
Theodore Roosevelt
To intervene in European issues with Latin American countries
Roosevelt Corollary
Demanded by President Wilson that it be included in the Treaty of Versailles.
Had no real army and depended on the goodwill of its members.
It would be rejected by the U.S. Senate
The League of Nations