Civil War
Causes of the civil war
Slavery, States' rights, and territorial claims
Its purpose was to Americanize the Native Americans. The act broke up the reservations, and gave some of the land to Native Americans. (1887)
Suffrage
The right to vote
American inventor who developed many devices such as the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb
Thomas Edison
Explain Jim Crow Laws
The "separate but equal" segregation laws that state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965
What were some consequences of the Civil War?
Reconstruction, thirteenth amendment, and fourteenth amendment
Which indigenous group was affected by the Sand Creek Massacre?
Cheyenne Indians.
Sharecropping
A system used on southern farms after the civil war in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history
John D. Rockefeller
Explain Black Codes
Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
What did the thirteenth amendment do?
abolished slavery in the U.S in 1865
Which Sioux leader led the Battle of Little Big Horn against the 7th cavalry?
Sitting Bull
Bessemer Process
A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities.
A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
A political party formed in 1848 that opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
Free-Soil Party
What does the fourteenth amendment declare?
Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws regardless of race
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River
Yellow Journalism
A style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts
1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.
Henry Ford
A political policy favoring the interests of established inhabitants over those of immigrants, often associated with anti-immigrant sentiments.
Nativism
What were the names of the three regiments from the Civil War?
Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry
What happened during the Wounded Knee Massacre
Army troops captured some of Sitting Bull's followers and took them to a camp; 300 Sioux men, women, and children were killed
Carpetbagger
Northerners who traveled south just to make money off the Reconstruction. They were called this because their suitcases were usually made from carpet.
Muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen.
Upton Sinclair
The Supreme Court ruled that African Americans could not be American citizens and that Congress had no authority to regulate slavery in the territories.
Dred Scott v. Sandford