Reconstruction & The New South
These three amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Evaluate as a response to injustice.
This is the belief that America was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Illustrate the impact of Manifest Destiny on the economic and technological development of the West.
This time period is often referred to as this, "good on the outside."
What is the Gilded Age?
This is a term for gold and silver in circulation.
What is bimetallism?
She created the first settlement house, the Hull House, in Chicago.
Who was Jane Addams?
Interpret the impact of industrialization on workers on living conditions.
This Supreme Court decision upheld segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Evaluate as a response to injustice.
This gave 160 acres of free land to a head of household.
What is the Homestead Act?
The negative term for Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Morgan.
Who are the Robber Barons?
He delivered the Cross of Gold speech.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
These were journalists who uncovered ills in society.
Who were the Muckrakers?
Assess the impact of media and influence of muckrakers on public opinion.
This amendment granted suffrage to all male citizens.
What is the 15th amendment?
Evaluate as a response to injustice.
This was the Native Americans' main resource that was almost wiped out during westward expansion.
What was the buffalo?
A term for hands-off government.
What is laissez-faire?
Analyze the effects of laissez-faire economics on business practices in the United States and their effects.
Farmers organized into this.
What is The Grange?
Trace the changing role of the American farmer.
He wrote The Jungle which led to the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
The Solid South usually voted for this political party.
What was the Democratic Party?
This act attempted to assimilate Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
Evaluate the Dawes Act for its effect on tribal identity, land ownership, and assimilation.
This labor leader created the American Socialist Party.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
William McKinley ran this kind of campaign.
What is a front porch campaign?
He took pictures of child labor in factories.
Who was Lewis Hines?
These three things disenfranchised African Americans.
What are the literacy test, poll tax, and grandfather clause?
This was the last Native American / US Military battle.
What was the Battle of Wounded Knee?
This ended patronage and the spoils system, requiring civil servants to pass an exam.
What is the Pendleton Act?
Trace the evolution from the power of the political machines to Civil Service reform.
The Grange formed this party with a platform of bimetallism.
What was the Populist Party?
Explain the impact of the Populist movement on the role of the federal government in American society.
He published How the Other Half Lives.
Who was Jacob Riis?