Reconstruction
Laws were passed to segregate new freed American Americans
What is Jim Crow?
Promised settlers 160 acres for free if they farmed it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Control political parties and offer services to immigrants in return for votes
What is a Political Machine?
A federal law that ended the spoil system?
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were passed by Congress after President Roosevelt read_________ by ________
What is the Jungle and Upton Sinclair?
Ended Slavery in the United States?
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Changed life on the Great Plains by fencing off land,, which impacted the nomadic life of the Plains Indians
What is Barber wire?
Banned this group of laborers from immigrating to the U.S. because their efforts to build the railroad in the West created anger in white laborers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A political machine that swindled millions of dollars from New York City.
Who is William Boss Tweed?
Journalists, photographers and authors who published their work in order to raise awareness of social issues and injustices.
What is a muckraker?
Southern laws passed to reestablish white supremacy
What are Black Codes?
Transported raw materials used in industrial production, such as coal and iron ore. Connected the East Coast with the West Coast and helped settle the West?
What is the Railroad Industry?
A Captain of Industry who wrote the book, "The Gospel of Wealth" and made his fortune in the steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
A Supreme Court case declared "separate but equal" constitutional, leading to legal segregation in the South.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
All people born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens; all citizens have equal protection under the law. (Hint: Which amendment?)
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
A law that let the federal government divide up reservations (land that belonged to Native American tribes) and give pieces of them to individual Native Americans instead.
Federal law was passed to eliminate monopolies and promote fair business practices
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
The belief that native-born Americans were superior to others and that immigrants and their diverse cultural influences were undesirable.
What is nativism?
Who is Jaco Riss?
Plan to reconstruct the South that provided full pardon to confederates but not property rights (slaves)
What is Lincoln's 10% plan?
Political Party that supported limited coinage and direct election of US Senators?
What is the populist party?
Economic practice that enforced merger of competitors in the same industry
What is Vertical Integration?
An economic philosophy that the government should not interfere in the free market (Hint: "hands off")
What is Laissez-Faire?
The law that prohibited Alcohol consumption and manufacturing?
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?