Civil War
The fact that the North had miles more of this than the South had gave them a big advantage.
Railroads
If you were a Southerner who still felt loyalty to the Confederacy after the war, you hate two kinds of people. One was a Northerner who came south to take advantage of the weak situation. The other was a Southerner who abandoned hope for independence and embrace the Union and Republicans. What names were given to these people?
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
What happened in 1873, 1893, and 1907 that caused the U.S. to rethink how it would regulate the stock market?
Panics/crashes
Name 3 ways in which the United States become more democratic in the Progressive Era. I.e., what things gave more power to the people?
The Referendum
The Initiative
The Recall
City commissioner/manager system
Direct election of senators (17th amendment)
Women's Suffrage (19th amendment)
Primary elections
The 16th amendment was passed in 1913. What did it do?
Allowed the federal government to collect income tax directly. This provided a source of revenue for the government.
One of the ways that both sides limited civil liberties was by suspending this. After Lincoln jailed John Merryman, Chief Justice Taney said he was not allowed to suspend it.
The writ of habeas corpus
In FL, it was illegal to disrespect a white employer. In many southern states, if you were unemployed, you could be arrested and forced to work as punishment. If your grandfather could vote, you could vote in the South without paying a poll tax or passing a literacy test. All these are examples of what set of laws passed after the Civil War?
Black codes
This law was passed in 1890. It attempted to regulate monopolies, but legal loopholes made it so that it only affected horizontally integrated businesses, not vertical. It was not very effective.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This law was passed after much awareness was raised by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. [There are two answers I will accept.]
The Pure Food and Drug Act
The Meat Inspection Act
Many immigrants and poor people lived in these accommodation blocks, five to seven stories high, built with two air shafts on the inside, and designed to house as many people as possible in as little space as possible. They lacked light, ventilation, and proper sanitation.
(Dumbbell) tenement buildings.
This was Sherman's tactic of burning the Southern fields and towns beforing marching on so the CSA would not have any food or shelter.
Scorched Earth
What did the Military Reconstruction Act of March 1867 do?
Divided the South into 5 districts that would be run by martial law.
This is the French term that means "let it run its own course". It is the policy where the gov't would not impose any rules on businesses and allow them to do whatever was necessary to be successful.
Laissez-faire
The Federal Reserve Act, the Underwood Tariff and the Federal Child Labor act were all pieces of legislation passed under which president?
Woodrow Wilson
In what ways were political machines helpful?
Bosses would provide social services for the community, often more efficiently than the legal process would allow.
They would appropriate land for legitimate businesses.
They would help keep rival businesses and gangs from fighting.
What major event of 1863 made it highly unlikely that Britain or France would support the CSA during the war?
The Emancipation Proclamation
How were Lincoln's recontruction plan and Johnson's reconstruction plan different from the Radical Republicans' reconstruction plan?
They were more lenient toward and forgiving of the South in readmission.
Name a famous, violent strike of the late 1800s
Haymarket Riot
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Jane Addams opened the Hull House in Chicago, which aimed to provide social services for the poor, especially women and children. The Hull House was the most famous of all ___________ houses.
Settlement
The implementation of this system in the US motivated many to create innovative new inventions that helped speed the process of industrialization.
The patent system
Why could the South not fight a purely defensive war, without having to invade the North?
The Anaconda Plan made supplies very limited, meaning they would have a limited time that they could survive.
Name two white supremacist groups that emerged during the Reconstruction Era
The Ku Klux Klan
The Redeemers
The White League
The Red Shirts
This is when a company owns facilities at all stages of production. For example, if I owned a meat market and I bought a farm to raise cattle, a slaughterhouse to butcher it, and a delivery service to transport it, I will have expanded using this concept.
Vertical integration
This group of religious females was instrumental in the Prohibition movement. They would say 'Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours'.
The Women's Christian Temperance Movement (WCTU)
This prohibitionist organization was more militant than its peers. They were very successful in converting 'wet' states into 'dry' states by giving much political support and votes to candidates who supported the temperance movement.
The Anti-Saloon League