Reconstruction/Moving West
restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
Black Codes
a process of making large amounts of high grade steel more quickly and cheaper.
Bessemer Process
An act where the US government gave land to states to set up agricultural colleges.
Morrill-Land Grant Act
a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
Tenement Housing
complete control over something (i.e. industry, trade, or commodity), so that it is impossible for others to become involved.
Monopoly
the separation of people into different groups based on race or ethnicity.
Segregation
a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices
Robber Baron
An amendment that (Citizens) granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to all people born in the United States or who became citizens.
14th Amendment
a contiguous network of railroads that crosses the continental U.S. connecting the country from New York to Californian.
Transcontinental Railroad
a southerner who worked with northern Republicans during Reconstruction for personal profit.
Scalawag
Name given to African Americans who migrated from southern states to Northern and Midwestern states in search of better opportunities and employment.
Exodusters
moving from the country and settling in large cities
Urbanization
This document gives an inventor the right to stop other people making or using their invention/idea. If someone makes or uses that invention without being allowed to, the inventor can sue that person in court to make them stop.
An economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Socialism
This amendment abolishes slavery in the U.S.
13th amendment
Northerners who moved to the South and were accused of using freedmen to gain office or profit.
Carpetbagger
an age characterized by corruption, but covered over with gold.
Gilded Age
An act that provides 160 Acres, to a person who is 21 yrs. Old or Head of family (to include women), Citizen or filing for citizenship, Live on property for 6 months out of year, Farms for 5 consecutive years
Homestead Act
A government program that provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
Freedmen's Bureau
These are reasons why someone would move west:
- Expensive land in the East, Overcrowding in the East, and Mistreatment of Minorities;
- Cheap land, Adventure, New beginning, Lure of success, Government Incentives: Hope to unify nation
Push & Pull Factors
A movement of settlers into the American West, began with the Louisiana Purchase and was fueled by the Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail and a belief in "manifest destiny."
Westward Expansion
An assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency.
Division of Labor
An Amendment that (Vote) protects the right to vote and ensures that suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment
the process by which a person or a group's (Immigrants) language and/or culture come to resemble those of the dominate culture (U.S.), abandoning their own ethnic heritage.
Assimilation
French for “Let (people) do (as they choose).” view that opposes regulation or interference by the government in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary to allow the free enterprise market to operate according to its own laws (supply and demand).
Laissez Faire