True or false? Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan was based on the belief that secession was unconstitutional and the South had never legally left the Union.
True.
In the late 1800s, what groups were formed to improve conditions for workers? A. trusts B. cooperatives C. conglomerates D. labor unions
What is D, labor unions?
This company created the first automobiles and pioneered the technique of mass production.
What is Ford Motor Company?
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Meaning “hands off” or “let it be” this is a policy in which the government does not interfere in the economy.
What is Laissez-faire?
Which of the following is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire? a) Strike that led to fire b) Tragedy which brought modern factory inspection to regulate labor c) Coaligned With Knights of Labor d) Figurative struggle
b) Tragedy which brought modern factory inspection to regulate labor
This form of transportation grew rapidly after the Civil War and connected the East and West coast for the first time.
Railroads
1) Southerners would be pardoned and regain citizenship when they took an oath of loyalty to the Constitution and emancipation of slaves.
2) 10% percent of the voters in a state took an oath that establishes a legal government which was recognized by the President.
What is the Lincoln Reconstruction Plan?
Military occupation of the South ended as a result of this compromise.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
These industries grew the most from the Industrial Revolution.
What are Iron production and Textiles?
This union was organized as a federation of many separate skilled workers’ unions and promoted “higher wages, 8-hour workdays, and improved working conditions.”
What is the American Federation of Labor? (AFL)
This act gave Congress the power to send federal troops into the South after the Civil War and establish five military districts.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
This president was impeached due to Tenure of Office Act and disagreements with Congress.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Resulting in a monopoly, this business practice reduces competition by giving stocks to a third-party board to oversee business decisions.
What is a Trust?
Some negative aspects of industrialization are
What are Poor working conditions, monopolies, inequality, natural resources, increases wealth gap between rich and poor, lack of regulation?
The belief that social progress depended upon competition among human beings resulting in the ‘survival of the fittest.’
What is Social Darwinism?
Land and labor system in which a freedman farmed land and were allowed to keep a part of the crop. This system virtually re-enslaved the black population through debt.
Sharecropping?
1)citizens, not governments, own and run companies.
2)Limited government oversight, fewer taxes
3)Owning private property is allowed/encouraged
These are all elements of...
What is Capitalism?
In this court case, the Supreme Court ruled that states has no power to fix prices on shipments passing through their territory because Congress controls interstate commerce.
What is Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railway v. Illinois? (1886)
This person pioneered political cartoons in America and helped expose political corruption in NYC’s Tammany Hall.
Who is Thomas Nast?