Reconstruction
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution achieved this key goal in American society.
What is the end of slavery?
This era was characterized by widespread political corruption and rapid industrial growth.
What was the Gilded Age?
This 1862 Act offered settlers free land if they farmed it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The rise of industrial capitalism inevitably led to an ________ in this economic gap between the rich and the poor.
What is increase?
She is best known for her anti-violence work campaigning against lynching in the South.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
The primary purpose of this federal agency was to help integrate formerly enslaved people into society.
This third-party movement primarily represented farmers and laborers demanding reforms.
What was the Populist Party?
Former slaves that migrated westward after the Civil War.
What were the Exodusters?
This labor organization differed from the AFL because it included unskilled workers and women.
What were the Knights of Labor?
The Force Acts were passed primarily to suppress this white supremacist group and protect Black voters.
Who were the KKK?
These laws were designed by Southern state legislatures to restrict the rights and freedoms of newly freed slaves.
What were the Black Codes?
The Homestead Strike or the Haymarket Affair is an event that best symbolizes conflict between labor and this aspect.
What is capital?
This famous statement stated that the existence of the frontier shaped American democracy and national character.
What is the Turner Thesis?
The "New South" ideology, promoted after the Civil War, focused on this economic shift instead of a return to the plantation system.
What is industrialization and economical diversification?
Laborers, primarily from this country, were most associated with building the transcontinental railroad.
What was China?
The Tenure of Office Act was the piece of legislation that led to this President's impeachment by the House of Representatives in 1868.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This woman's rights cause during the Gilded Age often centered on societal order and moral issues at home.
What is Temperance?
The Dawes Act of 1887 aimed to break up tribal lands and divide them into individual plots for this controversial policy.
What is assimilation?
These organizations emerged primarily to improve working conditions and wages for factory employees.
What are unions?
Riis credited this powerful political figure, who was then President of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners, with helping tear down the infamous Mulberry Bend slum.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
The term used to describe Southern Democrats who sought to restore white supremacy in the post-Reconstruction South.
What were the Redeemers?
William Jennings Bryan's famous "Cross of Gold" speech supported this inflationary monetary policy of silver coinage.
What is the free coinage of silver or bimetallism?
Conflicts like Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee reflected this type of response to assimilation policies.
What is resistance?
The major difference between rural and urban lifestyles in this era was that urban centers often experienced these two negative conditions.
What is overcrowding and poverty?
A long-term effect of Reconstruction was the passage of these laws in the South, creating segregation and racial hierarchy.
What are the Black Codes?