Reconstruction
The former Union general became the 18th president and oversaw Reconstruction while battling widespread corruption scandals.
Ulysses S. Grant
This 1892 labor conflict at Andrew Carnegie’s steel plant turned violent when private guards and striking workers clashed in a dramatic showdown over wages and union rights.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This 1862 law encouraged western settlement by giving 160 acres of free land to anyone who lived on and improved it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This major technological innovation powered streetcars, factories, and homes, transforming American life in the late 19th century.
What is electricity?
This event in 1898, involving the explosion of a U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor, helped spark the Spanish-American War
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
These Southern women’s groups helped create Confederate cemeteries and shaped the "Lost Cause" memory of the Civil War.
Ladies Memorial Associations
This economic idea argued that business leaders succeeded because they were the “fittest,” justifying wealth inequality and discouraging government regulation.
What is Social Darwinism?
Completed in 1869, this massive transportation project linked the East and West, transforming travel, commerce, and settlement in the United States.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Large waves of newcomers from Europe and Asia fueled industrial growth and dramatically changed American cities during the Gilded A
What is immigration?
These sensationalist reporters exaggerated or invented stories to stir public support for war with Spain.
Who were the Yellow Journalists?
Created in 1865, this federal agency helped formerly enslaved people find education, jobs, and protection during Reconstruction.
Freedmen’s Bureau
This political movement of the 1890s, inspired by farmers’ frustrations with debt and railroad power, formed a third party that demanded reforms such as free silver and government ownership of railroads.
What was the People’s Party (the Populists)?
This 1890 religious movement among Native Americans promised a return of the buffalo and the disappearance of white settlers, leading to fear and military repression.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This system of discriminatory laws in the South enforced racial segregation and inequality after Reconstruction.
What is Jim Crow?
This major engineering project, completed under U.S. control, connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and symbolized growing American global power.
What is the Panama Canal?
Which Three Amendments came during reconstruction?
13th, 14th, 15th
Who was the socialist leader that is related to Dr. Veeder and helped Unionize railroad workers?
Eugene V. Debs
This federal law broke up tribal lands into individual allotments with the goal of assimilating Native Americans into white cultur
What is the Dawes Act?
This African American journalist and reformer became famous for her courageous investigations into lynching and her fight for civil rights.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Passed in 1882, this was the first major U.S. law restricting immigration based on nationality, targeting a specific ethnic group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What did the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment do?
13. This 1865 constitutional amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
14. This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States and promised “equal protection of the laws.”
15. Ratified in 1870, this amendment prohibited denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Created in the 1880s, this broad labor organization aimed to unite all workers—skilled and unskilled—under one banner to demand better conditions.
What were the Knights of Labor?
This influential 1893 argument by historian Frederick Jackson Turner claimed that the American frontier shaped the nation’s democracy, individualism, and culture.
What is the Frontier Thesis?
This influential theory from Andrew Carnegie argued that the wealthy had a moral obligation to use their fortunes to improve society.
What is the “Gospel of Wealth”?
This ideology, supported by American leaders during the age of imperialism, justified expansion by claiming Western nations had a duty to uplift and modernize other peoples.
What is “civilization” (as used to justify imperialism)?