Reconstruction
Rebuilding the South after the Civil War was called
Reconstruction
What minerals were mined?
Gold, Silver, and Copper
Refined to be used as kerosene
Petroleum
Favoritism for native born Americans
navistism
A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote
poll tax
Who could not be an elected official under the Wade-Davis bill?
Former Confederate officials
Fast growing community
Boomtown
Thomas Edison
Law stating that schools must be taught in English
Bennett Law
Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
Segregation
What did Jim Crow laws enforce?
Segregation
A method of mining by which water is sprayed at a very high pressure against a hill or mountain,
Hydraulic Mining
The total value of goods and services, including income received from abroad, produced by the residents of a country within a specific time period, usually one yea
Gross National Product
Prohibited immigration of criminals, paupers and the insane
Immigration Act of 1882
the legal right to vote
Suffrage
President who attempted to bring the country back together after the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Became the 36th state?
Nevada
Hands off economics is known as
Laissez-faire
This law denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Legalized segregation in publicly owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
These are known as the Reconstruction amendments
13th, 14th, and 15th amendment.
Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years. The settler would only have to pay a registration fee of $25.
Homestead Act
A government tax on imports or exports
Tariff
Economic Opportunity ($)
Jobs/ workers were needed
Land
Peace and stability
Freedom to make a better life
Pull Factors of Immigration
Prohibited discrimination against blacks in public place, such as inns, amusement parks, and on public transportation. Declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Civil Rights Act of 1875