Reconstruction 1
This amendment gave all African Americans United States citizenship.
Voters had to prove that they could read and write by taking this. It prevented majority of newly freed-people and poor white southerners from voting.
What is a literacy test?
This is the total control of a service or product.
What is a monopoly?
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers.
What is nativism?
This group helped newly freedpeople with getting medical care, jobs, and an education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
If your grandfather was a slave before January 1, 1867, you couldn't vote, according to this law.
What is the grandfather clause?
This term is a negative name used to call business leaders, by people who think their business practices were ruthless or unethical.
What is a robber baron?
This location is the processing station into the U.S. for Asian immigrants.
What is Angel Island?
This term refers to the mass movement of people from rural to urban areas, leading to the growth of cities.
What is Urbanization?
These laws created the separation of different races in public places.
What are Jim Crow laws?
These people were northern Republicans that moved south for economic opportunities.
What are carpetbaggers?
Give two negative effects of industrialization?
Pollution, overpopulation, poor working conditions, political corruption, gap between rich and poor widens, etc.
This term refers to reasons that force people out of their home country.
Examples include: religious persecution, poverty, war, etc.
What are push factors?
A tall building with multiple floors. The Empire States building is a famous example.
What is a skyscraper?
These laws hindered the rights of African Americans, including the right to work anywhere except on a plantation.
This President granted hundreds of pardons to former Confederate officers and opposed the Freedmen’s Bureau.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
He is a business leader in the banking and finance industry
Who is JP Morgan?
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers and limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A fire started at this factory in Manhattan, NYC, killing 146 workers and became known as the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city.
These southern Republicans supported the Union during the Civil War.
What are scalawags?
This Reconstruction plan took over after President Johnson's plan and divided the South into five military districts.
What is Radical/Congressional/Congress' Reconstruction Plan.
He became a billionaire after starting the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D Rockefeller?
This is the group people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from Southern/ Eastern Europe as well as Asia. Often came poor and uneducated.
What is a New Immigrant?
The theory that the fittest humans are the most successful and poor people are poor because they’re weak and lack the skills to prosper.
What is Social Darwinism?