Important People
The President that took over for Lincoln after his assassination; nearly got removed from office and favored restoring seceded states while not providing for the protection and rights of newly freed people.
Andrew Johnson
The 13th Amendment
This Supreme Court case established the precedent of "separate but equal," which allowed segregation to flourish as a result.
Plessy v Ferguson
The idea that the US had the right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific and beyond the continental US.
Manifest Destiny
The laws and era that enforced racial segregation and discrimination within the United States from the end of the Civil War until the late 1960s.
Jim Crow
This President is responsible for the Trail of Tears and signed the Indian Removal Act, which resulted in the ethnic cleansing and relocation of certain Native American tribes onto reservations.
Andrew Jackson
Extended voting rights to back men; Southern states formed Jim Crow laws (Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, etc.) to bypass this amendment.
The 15th Amendment
This law named the KKK as a rebel group; it resulted in a shifting of hate crimes from being group based to more small scale crimes.
The Enforcement Acts of 1870
A politically and economically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the export of its natural resources to a domineering power; often controlled directly or indirectly by that power influenced through corporations.
Banana Republic
A system of tenant farming where a Black farmer would farm land in exchange of a portion of the crops; tied to Black Codes.
To receive 300 points you must name both figures: the two disagreed on whether to focus on women's suffrage. One is famous for campaigning against lynching and the other is famous for exposing Standard Oil.
Ida B. Wells and Ida Tarbell
This amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision and established equal protection under the law and birthright citizenship, expanded due process, and banned insurrectionists from holding office.
This law allowed the development of the West by allowing citizens to claim 160 acres of public land.
The Homestead Act of 1862
Investigative journalists who uncovered the problematic nature of the Gilded Age
Muckrakers
A form of Exoticization which is inspired by Oceanian art; often includes various inaccurate or offensive portrayals of these cultures.
Tiki Culture
This robber baron ran Standard Oil which monopolized the petroleum industry; his wealth was estimated in 1913 to be at $900 million dollars.
John D. Rockefeller
This Amendment gave some women the right to vote; women of color were still excluded from suffrage.
The 19th Amendment
A law passed in New York City which required factories to install sprinkler systems while also establishing the New York City Fire Prevention Bureau.
The Sullivan-Hoey Fire Prevention Law
The capitalists of the 19th and early 20th centuries during the Industrial Revolution, which monopolized industries and generated wealth inequality.
Robber Barons
Towns which persecute Black people who stay within the town limits after dusk; the towns would be accessible (to some degree) during the day, but if one stayed after dark, this could lead to hate crimes, arrest, beatings, murder, etc. It was a form of segregation.
Sundown Towns
Sam Zemurray
This Amendment that we have not discussed in class yet, that was passed in 1912, established the direct election of US senators by popular vote.
The 17th Amendment
This Supreme Court case ruled that US federal authorities had powers over immigration matters, even when changes in US immigration law reversed earlier policy and practice.
Chae Chan Ping v. United States
Single-family buildings divided into multiple living spaces. Often narrow, low-rise apartments, the rooms were built "railroad style" which meant rooms without windows and poor ventilation. Many of the properties were overcrowded and lacked indoor plumbing.
Tenements
A management philosophy that aims to improve efficiency and productivity by analyzing and optimizing work processes.
Taylorism