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Reconstruction
The Gilded Age/ Old West
The Populist Movement
Imperial America to 1900
The Progressive Era
100
State could be reentered into the union when 10 percent of vote count from the state had taken oath of allegiance to the United States.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
100
The government approach that was taken during the Gilded Age.
What is Laissez Faire?
100
Promising a portion of crop to land owner.
What is sharecropping?
100
Dishonest and over exaggerating writing that feed the rebellion.
What is Yellow Journalism?
100
People who exposed monopolies, corruption, and poor conditions.
What is a Muckrackers?
200
A federal program that addressed the basic necessities such as food, healthcare, and education to freed slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
A battle between Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and The Sioux and Cheyenne Indians.
What is The Battle of Little Big Horn?
200
Farmers movement that addressed the problems with railroads and tenant farming.
What is The Grange?
200
States that the United States cannot annex Cuba.
What is the Teller Amendment?
200
A book written by Upton Sinclair exposing the meat packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
300
Law limiting the things freed slaves can do.
What is the Black Codes?
300
The writer of "Rags to Richer" novels.
Who is Horatio Alger?
300
The federal government is "in charge" of the interstate commerce.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
300
The purchasing of Alaska from Russia.
What is Seward's Folly?
300
A strike that demanded 20% pay increase, a nine-hour work day, and Union recognition for workers.
What is The Anthracite Coal Mine Strike?
400
Gave amnesty to former confederate officials.
What is the General Amnesty Act?
400
Hired man who assassinated President Garfield.
Who is Charles Guiteau?
400
Two candidates running in the 1896 presidential presidency on the behalf of the Republican and Democratic party.
Who is William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley?
400
Written by a Spanish ambassador, who was bad mouthing McKinley and it got published.
What is the DeLome Letter?
400
Empowered interstate commerce commission to lower rates.
What is the Hepburn Act (1906)?
500
The plans of Lincoln and Johnson who believed that it was the executive's power to rebuild the south. It was also the first part of Reconstruction.
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
500
Immigrant success story that was the law of the Gilded Age written by Andrew Carnegie.
What is The Gospel of Wealth?
500
Subtreasury System, Free Silver, and Progressive income tax.
What is the Omaha Platform?
500
The author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan.
500
An investigation board created Congress that found the wrong doings of companies then suing them for it causing the break of the company.
What is the Bureau of Corporation?