Vocab
This term, coined by Mark Twain, suggests that the era looked shiny and prosperous on the surface but was corrupt and decaying underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
The rights granted in the 13th amendment
What is: emancipation, freedom from slavery
Name the three phases of Reconstruction
What are:
Presidential
Congressional
Redemption
Critics used this derogatory term to describe powerful industrialists who they believed used ruthless tactics to destroy competition and exploit workers.
Name three things labor unions fought for
What are:
1. Better pay
2. Shorter hours
3. Safer/cleaner conditions
Define Reconstruction
What is: the time period in America following the Civil War, when the country tried to reunite by providing rights to newly freedpeople and southern states that had seceded rejoined the union
The rights granted by the 15th amendment
What is the right to vote granted to all men over 21?
The harshest Reconstruction plan
Immigrants often lived in these crowded, poorly ventilated, and often dangerous multi-family apartment buildings.
What are: Tenements?
This 1911 tragedy in New York City resulted in the deaths of 146 workers, most of whom were young immigrant women
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Definition of Emancipation
What is: freedom from slavery
The Southern response to the 15th amendment to limit the voting rights of blacks
What are:
Poll taxes
Literacy tests
Grandfather clause
Lincoln's 10 percent plan.
Lincoln's proposal offered lenient terms of pardon and amnesty to Confederates who swore allegiance to the United States.
This unofficial city organization was designed to keep a particular party or group in power by exchanging "favors" for votes
What was: Political Machine
This 1882 law was the first in U.S. history to ban a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Define "Black Codes"
What are: laws passed in the South just after the Civil War, aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers...limited freedoms.
One political impact of the 15th Amendment
What is black politicians being elected into office as Senators and Congressmen
End of Reconstruction
The outcome of the Compromise of 1877
To fight for better pay and shorter hours, workers formed these organizations, though they were often met with violence and "blacklisting.
What are labor unions?
The rights granted by the Fourteenth Amendment
What is full citizenship to all people born in the United States and equal protection under the law?
State the outcome of Plessy vs. Ferguson
What is: The Separate Car Act was constitutional
Name two goals of Radical Reconstruction
2. punish the Southern states that seceded
This term describes the preference for native-born Americans and the desire to limit immigration to "protect" American culture and jobs.
What is nativism?
The Haymarket Square Riots, Pullman Strike, & Ludlow Massacre were part of what larger movement?
The Labor Union Movement
Definition of suffrage
What is the right to vote?
The 3 word phrase that aligns with the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision
What is: separate but equal?
The period of Reconstruction that saw the passage of the Civil Rights Act, 14th & 15th Amendments and most progress of the Freedmen’s Bureau was known as:
What was: Radical Reconstruction?
This term describes the rapid shift of a population from rural, agricultural areas to densely packed cities.
What is urbanization?
A workplace tragedy led to a massive increase in membership for this specific labor union, which represented garment workers.
What is the ILGWU?