Civil War & Reconstruction
This resulted in ending slavery in states that left the Union during the Civil War.
The Emancipation Proclamation
This person invented the light bulb and founded General Electric.
Thomas Edison
Describe labor conditions during the Gilded Age.
Long hours; unsafe working environments
This law gave free land to settlers
The Homestead Act (1862)
This was the crowded poorly-constructed housing for working-class families.
Tenement buildings
This organization provided education, healthcare, and assistance to formerly enslaved people & poor whites.
Freedmen's Bureau
These technological developments resulted in easier communication between distant regions
Telegraph and telephone
How did industrialization change the daily lives of working-class families?
Long hours and poor living conditions
How did the Transcontinental Railroad impact Native American tribes?
Traditional hunting grounds were destroyed
Most immigrants to the U.S. came from what part of the world during the Gilded Age?
Southern and Eastern Europe
This system provided a way for formerly enslaved people to work the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
Sharecropping
This invention resulted in the faster and cheaper production of steel.
Bessemer Process
This economic policy allowed businesses to grow with minimal government intervention to protect workers or consumers.
Laissez-faire Economics
Why was the Battle of Little Bighorn significant?
A victory for Native Americans (Sioux & Cheyenne) against U.S. troops
This term describes an anti-immigrant sentiment and a preference for native-born people
Nativism
This was the cause for the rise of groups like the KKK and racial violence in the South.
Increasing rights and influence for African Americans at the start of Reconstruction
How did expansion of the railroads lead to the development of consumer culture?
Customers could buy goods through the mail-order catalog.
This was a consequence of labor strikes such as the Haymarket riot and Pullman Strike.
The federal government and public opinion supported business owners. Labor unions were portrayed as radical.
This battle marked an end to the Indian Wars and resulted in hundreds of Lakota Sioux being killed.
The Wounded Knee Massacre
What tactics did political machines such as Tammany Hall use to influence public policy?
Bribery and kickbacks
These were the rights guaranteed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
13th: Abolished slavery; 14th: Granted citizenship; and 15th: Granted voting rights for African American men
Technological developments resulted in this economic shift.
Agriculture to industrial manufacturing
Railroad pricing and business practices were regulated by this law.
Interstate Commerce Act
These government policies negatively impacted Native Americans during the Indian Wars of the late 19th century.
Reservations and assimilation efforts like boarding schools and the Dawes Act
This 1882 law was a reflection of the Nativist sentiment in the Gilded Age.
Chinese Exclusion Act