Chapter 4
Freed slaves in the Confederate States during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
In the election of 1896 William Jennings Bryan was defeated by this man.
Who is William McKinley?
To fight railroads influence on markets this group promoted laws to establish maximum freight and passenger rates and prohibit discrimination.
What is the Grange?
Person or group that has a support system that work to obtain votes to help support that groups' agenda.
What are political machines?
Immigrants were encouraged to attend school in order to help them
What is assimilate?
Established the right to vote for all citizens not just white citizens.
What is the 15th Amendment?
One factor that led to hardships for Native Americans was
What is the destruction of the buffalo?
Fixes prices and misuse of government land grants were two reasons why farmers faced hardships and were angry with the __________ industry.
What is railroad?
Located in New York Harbor, place where immigrants were processed before entering the country.
What is Ellis Island?
A fee that people would have to pay in order to be able to vote.
What is a poll tax?
Stated that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The movement of the people.
What is Populism?
The Pinkerton Detective Agency was called to end a strike in a Carnegie Steel plant after wage cuts were announced. In the end 12 people were left dead in this worker strike.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This prohibited all Chinese immigrants besides certain groups.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This allowed white citizens who failed the literacy test or are unable to pay the poll tax to vote.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
States that the people have the power to vote on all matters.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
William Jennings Bryan gave a speech about the gold vs silver debate.
What is the Cross of Gold Speech?
Transportation that crossed the entire span of the United States.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Japan for limit the amount of immigrants coming to the United States.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
Mexicans and African Americans were forced into slave labor in order to pay off a debt in this
What is debt peonage?
Abolished slavery everywhere in the Union.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This site, now a town, was where federal troops massacred 300 Native Americans.
What is Wounded Knee?
In Chicago people went to the streets to protest police brutality following the killing of a striker at the McCormick Harvester plant, this left several police and protesters dead in this worker strike.
What is the Haymarket Strike?
Preached of salvation through serving others.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
A name for segregation laws named for a folk song of the period.
What are Jim Crow Laws?