Constitutional Amendments
This Reconstruction Amendment abolished enslavement as except as punishment for a crime.
13th Amendment
The largest labor union during the Gilded Age.
Knights of Labor.
The catalyst for U.S. intervention in the Caribbean.
"We are living in a grand and wonderful time; we are living in a day when old ideas,old traditions,and old customs have broken loose from their moorings...; we are living in a time when the gray old world begins to dimly comprehend that there is no difference between the brain of an intelligent woman and the brain of an intelligent man;..."
"Reports on Women in the Farmers' Alliance," Mary Elizabeth Lease (1891)
This Reconstruction Amendment establishes citizenship and equal rights for all male citizens born in the United States.
14th Amendment
This event began in West Virginia and then spread throughout the continental U.S. as workers protested low wages and unsafe working conditions.
Great Railroad Strike 1877
This doctrine gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Latin America and the Caribbean as it saw fit.
Roosevelt Corollary
"Our fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good. They told us to treat all men as they treated us; that we should never be the first to break a bargain; that it was a disgrace to tell a lie; that we should speak only the truth; that it was a shame for one man to take from another his wife, or his property without paying for it."
"Speech to a White Audience," Chief Joseph (1879)
The last of the Reconstruction Amendments that gave African-American men the right to vote, though it was up to the states to determine enforcement.
15th Amendment
This event led to diminishing support for the labor movement after it devolved into violence and the death of several participants, including police officers.
Haymarket Riot.
This historian determined the relationship between the U.S. and the West for decades.
Frederick Jackson Turner.
"Yet even while 1870s depression reinforced the seedy reputation of speculators, a new and even more mysterious form of money manipulation was emerging in the commodity markets of the Middle West."
Rebirth of a Nation, T.J. Jackson Lears (2009)
This amendment led to direct election of senators.
17th Amendment.
This event led to conflict between strikers and Pinkerton guards.
This revolutionary openly criticized the U.S. for its involvement and presence in the Philippines.
Emilio Aguinaldo
"Not only this but, the opportunity here afforded will awaken among us a new era of industrial progress. Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of the bottom, that a seat in Congress or the State legislature was more sought…"
Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition (1895)
This amendment established income tax.
16th Amendment.
This meeting spearheaded by Farmers' Alliance members created specific demands for the government.
Ocala Demands
An indigenous religious and cultural movement that was seen as a threat by white settlers.
Ghost Dance
"The Russian banner marked a turning point for the woman suffrage battle in the United States. It galvanized the radical wing of the movement as never before, creating what the suffragist Marie Howe described as an “unquenchable” “new spirit.” It marked a move by the NWP toward civil disobedience on the model of the militant British “suffragettes” and a move by the Wilson administration toward violent suppression of the picketers."
"Suffragettes and Soviets: American
Feminists and the Specter of
Revolutionary Russia," Julia Mickenburg (2014)