Reconstruction Era
The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and readmitted into the Union.
Reconstruction
Belief that one race is superior to another
Racism
refusal to work in protest of working conditions
strike
Who bought the louisiana territory?
Thomas Jefferson
What territory was purchased in 1803 that doubled the size of the United States?
Louisiana Territory
President of the United States who saved the Union during the Civil War, wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, and was assassinated
Abraham Lincoln
Using children to work in factories and businesses
Child Labor
1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor
Gilded Age
The Indian Removal Act was enacted, leading to the forced what ?
Relocation
What was the name of the territory the United States purchased from France?
Louisiana
Abolished Slavery (except as a punishment for a crime)
13th Amendment
Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans; founded by W.E.B. DuBois
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
People who'd built fortunes by swindling investors and taxpayers, and bribing officials
Robber Barons
When was the Homestead Act passed ?
1862
What is Manifest Destiny?
19th-century belief that advocated for the expansion of the United States across the North American continent.
Establishes that no state can deny anyone rights that are enshrined in the Bill of Rights to any citizen
14th Amendment
Co-founded the NAACP to help secure legal equality for minority citizens.
W.E.B. DuBois
What was the gilded age marked by?
rapid economic growth, industrialization, and significant social change in the United States.
Many Native American tribes were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands due to westward expansion and settler encroachment.
Initial Displacement
President Jackson signed what law that forced Native Americans east of the Mississippi from their homes?
The Indian Removal Act
1865 Organization maintained by the Union Army to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It provided legal assistance, provided food, clothing, schools, legal representation and public education to recently freed African Americans
Freedmen's Bureau
Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public
Muckrakers
The actual definition for "gilded"
Covered In Gold
Families traveling West in the 19th century primarily used covered
Wagons
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were sent to...
explore and map the Louisiana Territory.