Stillbirth of New South
This era in American history followed immediately after the Civil War. (1865-1877) It tried to rebuild America with several amendments, yet with measures instilled to keep African-Americans from voting, getting jobs, etc. The South was stagnant in its development. The Compromise of 1877 ended this era of American history.
Reconstruction
What were some of the civilizers of the West?
Railroad, Barbed Wire Fence, Mail
This way of beating competition is by owning all of one step in the production making process.
Horizontal integration
This labor alliance had a variety of members from African Americans to women. They advocated for reform and laws to prevent contact labor. They built a worker's party and advocated for an eight hour work week. A losing streak with employees led to their decline
Knights of Labor
This form of journalism was used in some newspapers to sensationalize specific current events. This helped lead to the start of the Spanish-American War.
Yellow journalism
This Reconstruction amendment helped abolish the practice of slavery, yet with sharecropping, dependence on slaveholders still persisted after this amendment was passed.
13th Amendment
This person made a railroad and advertised the Cold West, as warm and good land, when it in fact was not.
Name this person and how he advertised the West.
Jay Cooke's Banana Belt
This way of beating competition is considered cheaper and brings in more of a profit, it is where businesses have a slice of everything in the supply chain
Vertical Integration
This person led the Knights of Labor
Terence V Powderly
This ship and its explosion helped cause a massive frenzy in America. While this ship most likely blew up due to a boiler mishap, a lot of people thought Spain was involved, which helped lead to the Spanish-American War.
USS Maine
This Reconstruction amendment made it to where voting would not be denied on race. However, with poll taxes and the grandfather clause being implemented, it would be a while before this amendment had any effect.
15th amendment
This advertising idea stated that the more people migrated towards the West, more rain would naturally follow.
Rain follows the plow
This way of manufacturing involves non-stop work as processes flow together without interruption.
Continuous flow
This labor organization stuck to important issues such as higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions. Only organized, skilled workers who were white could join.
AFL (American Federation of Labor)
This amendment/law stated that the US was going to make Cuba free and independent, and they were not going to annex Cuba. Many expansionists loved this idea, which led to the Spanish-American War.
Teller Amendment
This 1896 Supreme Court Case stated that different facilities for African-Americans and white people should be labelled "separate but equal:. This permitted Jim Crow laws in the South to persist for a long time.
Plessy V. Ferguson
This 1862 Act gave any head of a family 160 acres of land for five years and 10 dollars which resulted in numerous people moving out west.
Homestead Act
This man espoused the myth that anyone can make it big in America, if they worked hard enough. While this worked out for a few people, for the majority of the population, his statements were just myths.
Horatio Alger
This person led the AFL
Samuel Gompers
This president oversaw the Spanish-American War. While he did not want to go to war, and thought about an armistice, he supported Congress to make its own decision, which led to the Spanish-American War.
William McKinley
This form of intimidation by Southerners was used to get results for what they wanted at polls (using white supremacy as a scare tactic, beating up political opponents, etc).
Bulldozing
What were the three myths of the West?
Land of violence, Individualism taming the frontier, The Garden of the World
This theory suggested that people who failed only had themselves to blame, and nothing else in society was to blame at all. This "survival of the fittest" philosophy was expounded by Yale professor William Graham.
Social Darwinism
This president came in as the champion of reform instituting a secret ballot, tariff reform, and civil service reform. As soon as he went into his second term, his popularity plummeted as the Panic of 1893 took place.
Grover Cleveland
This Cuban governor was ready to stamp out any insurrection. His reconcentration policy herded people in the country, to cities where they died of disease. This led to a war, which allowed for sensationalist newspapers to take advantage of this situation.
Valeriano "Butcher" Wyler