Reconstruction
What amendment banned slavery in the United States?
13th amendment
What is known as the separation of people based on their race?
segregation
Flatlands located in between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains
Great Plains
What gave factories the opportunity to mass produce for 24 hours?
Thomas Edison/light bulb
Name the domestic policy that led to the driving factor in the rural to urban shift in migration?
Morrill Land Grand Act (domestic policy)
advanced technology in the farming industry
(tractor, etc)
What amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the United States?
14th amendment
What are three Jim Crow laws passed in the south used to disenfranchise African Americans?
literacy, poll tax, grandfather clause
What was used to promote industrial growth that was built during Manifest Destiny?
Transcontinental Railroad
Dealing with communication: name the inventor along with their invention; what two types of innovation allowed for long distance communication?
Samuel Morse/morse code
Alexander G. Bell/telephone
Name three reasons cities grew during the late 1800's and early 1900's.
1) rural to urban move looking for jobs
2) push/pull factors increasing immigration from foreign countries
3) growth of industries such as steel and meatpacking
What economic system replaced slavery after the Civil War?
What phrase was established in the late 19th century Supreme Court case "Plessy vs Ferguson"?
separate but equal
Name four of the innovations that helped farmers that took advantage of the Homestead Act.
barbed wire, windmill, steel plow, dry farming
What invention during the late 19th century and early 20th century spurred economic growth due to the creation of multiple businesses needed to help mass produce this new invention? What is this new invention's method of creation?
Henry Ford's model-T/assembly line
What were living conditions like for poor immigrants?
slum life
tenement living
sanitation was bad
What amendment prohibits the each state from denying the right to vote based on race?
15th amendment
What were the educational beliefs of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois for African Americans?
vocational work/college degree
Name the domestic policy that encouraged Native Americans to break with tribal communities and assimilate to become farmers.
Dawes Act or General Allotment Act
Identify these tycoons:
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Oil
Steel
Bank
Railroad
Housing, education, and other necessities were provided to poor urban immigrants by what method?
settlement houses
Name of the government agency that helped former slaves find work?
Freedman's Bureau
Who helped create the NAACP in 1909 to help African Americans fight for equal rights?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Name the three basic reasons for participating in the westward expansion of America during Manifest Destiny.
1) Homestead Act (free land)
2) wealth (mining for gold or silver)
3) Turner Thesis (adventure)
Name three conditions workers had to endure when working in the factories. Also, name three ways workers responded to their harsh working conditions.
1) unsafe conditions 2) long hours 3) little pay
1) strikes 2) protests 3) boycotts
What were governments called that took advantage of immigrants and how did they stay in power?
political machines
offered immigrants jobs for their vote