Making Amend(ment)s
This amendment formally abolished slavery in the Union
13th
Any hope of a quick reunification and forgiveness died when John Wilkes Booth became the first successful assassin of a president, ending the life of this man
Abraham Lincoln
These people were extremely against accepting immigrants into the country, seeking to show favoritism towards native-born Americans
Nativists
This board game's name comes from the business practice where the men in charge controlled entire industries. Concerned about one man having that much industrial power? Just "Trust" the process!
Monopoly
This publication exposed the corruption in the meat packing industry, including gross conditions and poor handling of the raw meat being sold to consumers
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The 15th Amendment ensures that this group of citizens, along with all races and ethnic backgrounds has the right to vote
African Americans
This group attempted to stall the efforts to give the freed slaves of the South civil rights, their efforts including violence against opponents and their property to strike fear into them
Ku Klux Klan
New Arrivals to New York were greeted by this infamous facility moments after passing the Statue of Liberty, where they learned if they would be accepted into the United States
Ellis Island
Rooting for the Vanderbilt Commodores? Then you're all-aboard for the college named after the monopolist in control of this industry
Railroads
Her publication History of Standard Oil exposed the monopoly of J.D. Rockefeller
Ida Tarbell
This Progressive Era Amendment remembered the women, giving them the vote
19th
This system gave freed slaves land, seeds, and the tools to farm them, but it also set them on a constant cycle of poverty and debt to the main land owner
Sharecropping
The Americanization movement describes the work of both the government and private citizens to support immigrants to do this, teaching them the English Language and other skills needed for citizenship
Assimilation
Carnegie Hall is named after the monopoly owner of this industry, used to build the internal infrastructure of the concert venue
Steel
How the Other Half Lives, composed by Jacob Riis, used both images and text to document and expose this
Horrid living conditions in NYC's slums and tenement buildings
This amendment redefines citizenship to include newly freed slaves who were born in the US
14th
This group of legislators believed in harsh punishment for the South following the war
Radical Republicans
As urban populations soared, it became increasingly more difficult for governments to provide services to maintain this
Safe living conditions
This form of integration sees a monopoly gain control of companies producing similar products to gain control of that level of the market
Horizontal Integration
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois were champions for this group of people during the Progressive Era, calling for their education the advancement of their civil rights, respectively.
African Americans
Being born in the US
This deal, hammered out during the counting of the votes of the Electoral College, saw the end of Reconstruction in the South and the peaceful inauguration of President Hayes
Compromise of 1877
This law, passed in 1882, saw and enforced sharp decline in the arrival of Chinese Immigrants into the US
Chinese Exclusion Act
Gaining control of one's suppliers, both the raw materials and transportation, gives a monopolist this form of integration
Vertical Integration
A bullet can't stop this bullmoose! This "Cowboy in the White House" president was the political face of the Progressive Era and the driving force behind laws such as the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts
Theodore Roosevelt