Amendments & Laws
A formal change to the Constitution that ensured the right to vote for all male, African American citizens.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This turning point in the Civil war was also the bloodiest battle that ended General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
These laws were passed to limit the freedoms and rights of African Americans in the South.
What are Black Codes?
These are reasons people will leave their homes to immigrate to a new country. (Ex. famine, religious persecution, poverty)
What are push factors?
These were low‑rise apartment buildings, known for cramped spaces and poor living conditions, that emerged in urban centers like New York.
What were Tenements?
A formal change to the Constitution that abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was the deadliest one-day battle in American history and stopped the Confederate invasion of Maryland.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This was one of the Enforcement Acts aimed at ending the campaign of violence committed by a white supremacist group in the south.
What was the Ku Klux Klan Act?
These are reasons people choose a certain country to immigrate to. (Ex. job opportunities, religious tolerance, abundant resources)
What are pull factors?
Journalists, novelists, and photographers who sought to expose corruption in big business and government and influenced the passage of key legislation that strengthened protections for workers and consumers.
What were Muckrakers?
A formal change to the Constitution that guarantees citizenship to those born or naturalized in the U.S. and grants them equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This started the end of the Civil War because General Robert E. Lee, commander of all Confederate forces, surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.
What is the Battle of Appomattox Court House?
An unwritten deal that gave Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in exchange for the removal of federal troops and end of Reconstruction in the South.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This was a federal law that restricted the immigration of Chinese people to the U.S. for ten years.
This was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, that documented the terrible living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
Bills passed in the 1870s to protect African Americans' rights and stop violence against them.
What were the Enforcement Acts?
This Union victory led to the capture of a critical Confederate city and opened the door for Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's famous "March to the Sea" and the capture of Savannah.
What was the Battle of Atlanta?
This provided assistance to formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the Southern States following the war by helping them establish schools, purchase land, locate family members, and legalize marriages.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed here.
What is Ellis Island?
A devastating fire that killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, who were trapped on the upper floors of the factory. The fire was a catalyst for workplace safety reforms and the creation of the New York State Department of Labor.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This law was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the U.S. Senate.
What was the Tenure of Office Act?
This battle is considered General Lee's greatest military victory because it enabled the Confederacy to move north into Maryland and invade Pennsylvania.
What was the Battle of Chancellorsville?
A series of laws passed that established the criteria for Southern states to re-enter the Union and established martial law in the South governed by Union Generals.
What were the Military Reconstruction Acts?
These countries were responsible for a large portion of immigrants coming to the U.S. in the 1800s. (List 3)
What are Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, the German states, France, and Prussia?
A novel written by Upton Sinclair, published in 1906, which exposes the harsh conditions and exploitation of immigrant workers in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
What is The Jungle?