Reconstruction
This 1865 amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This belief said that some rise in society because they are inherently better people
What is Social Darwinism?
1892 Act which suspended Chinese immigrants from entering the United States because of the fear that they would take American jobs.
What is the "Chinese Exclusion Act"
This is when workers refuse to work as a protest against bad working conditions.
What is a strike?
The completion of this major project showed that the federal government supported linking the nation together and creating a national market for goods and services by giving land grants to railroads.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This amendment to the US constitution granted African American men suffrage.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This is the practice of one company buying its competitors in order to form a monopoly.
What is Horizontal Integration?
The goal of this Act was the assimilation of the Native Americans into American society.
What is the Dawes Act.
This is a negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
What is Collective Bargaining?
This is the belief that native-born white Americans are superior to newcomers and led to anti-foreign and anti-immigrant sentiments.
What is Nativism?
This 1868 amendment to the US constitution granted citizenship to everyone born in the US, regardless of their former condition of servitude.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This type of business model is when a person or company owns every step in the production and sale process.
What is Vertical Integration?
This Act required settlers to improve their land and live on it for five years in order to own the property.
What is the Homestead Act.
When workers went on strike in this time period, who did the government side with?
This agreement allowed Rep. Rutherford B. Hayes to become President, removed soldiers from the South, and returned voting rights to former confederates.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This was a large group of African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War.
Who were Exodusters?
This is a government policy that practices "hands-off" of regulating private businesses and companies.
What is Laissez Faire?
The first which Act prohibited monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Name something that workers went on strike to get
Better wages
Eight hour work day
This US Supreme Court decision created the principle of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This governmental agency was created to help newly freed African Americans recover at the end of the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
What is a trust?
What Supreme Court Decision ruled that it was legal for private companies to refuse service based on race
Plessy v. Ferguson
This was an 1886 labor-related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence.
Haymarket Riot
Pullman Strike
What is the Haymarket Riot?
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