Reconstruction
An addition to the Constitution
What is an amendment?
An island where immigrants arrived from Europe
What is Ellis Island?
The process of a farming economy transforming into a factory economy
What is industrialization?
States that all men can vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
One country takes power over another country
What is imperialism?
States that if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen. Gives citizens equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
An island where immigrants from Asia arrived
What is Angel Island?
The process of people moving from farms to cities
What is urbanization?
To make someone or their actions a crime
What is nativism?
A test that prevented African Americans from voting
What is a literacy test?
This act did not allow Chinese immigrants to enter the United States
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Big businesses had power over the government.
What is a political effect of the Gilded Age?
States that slavery is illegal in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
Taking away someone's rights, especially the right to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?
Even though slavery was over, African Americans were subject to laws that restricted their freedom
What was a failure of Reconstruction?
A positive thing happening in a country that causes people to move/immigrate there
What is a pull factor?
There was a big gap between the rich and the poor. Many people protested and went on strike to get higher wages and better working conditions
What is a social effect of the Gilded Age?
A series of laws that treated African Americans unequally.
What are Black Codes?
To make up for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or helping those who have been wronged
What are reparations?
A system that came about after slavery, where freedmen had to share part of their crops with a landowner. This kept them in debt to the landowner and they could not leave until they paid their debt.
What is sharecropping?
A negative thing that occurs in someone's country and causes them to leave
What is a push factor?
What are inventions of the Gilded Age?
What was a success of Reconstruction?
An organization that protects workers from abuse by their employer
What is a labor union?