RECONSTRUCTION,
WEAK AND RADICAL
WEAK AND RADICAL
This government agency was established in 1865 to provide food, education, and legal help to freedpeople and war refugees.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This union strategy attempted to bring together both skilled and unskilled labor.
What is "One Big Union"?
This economic crisis beginning in 1893 helped increase support for the Populists.
What is The Great Depression of 1893?
Most “new immigrants” in the late 1800s came from this part of Europe.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
During the Gilded Age, many Americans felt the government focused more on keeping politicians in power than on solving national problems.
What is corruption or political patronage?
This amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This scientific method of organizing factories helped increase profits and productivity while deskilling the work involved.
What is Taylorism?
Farmers wanted more money in circulation, using silver or paper, to make it easier to pay off debts and raise crop prices. This economic effect was what they hoped to create.
What is inflation?
Urban political machines traded services for these from immigrants.
What are electoral votes?
This 1881 event highlighted the fall-out from the patronage/spoils system.
What is the assassination of President Garfield?
These laws were passed in Southern states to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War.
What are the Black Codes?
This book by a notable robber baron argued that the wealthy should use their resources to engage in philanthropy.
What is "The Gospel of Wealth" by Andrew Carnegie.
Underrepresented farmers used this strategy over frustration with political parties focusing on the industrial elite.
What is forming an independent political party?
This 1882 law banned immigration from one specific Asian country.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?
This period in American history was dominated by materialism, a quest for personal gain, and corruption in both politics and society.
What is The Gilded Age?
Hard-line anti-Slavery Republicans in Congress pushed for this type of Reconstruction, aiming to punish former Confederates and protect African Americans’ rights.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
This peaceful protest in Chicago ended in a riot after an agitator threw a bomb killing two police officers.
What is the Haymarket Affair / The Haymarket Riot?
The Populist Party was also known by this name.
What is the People's Party?
These crowded urban apartment buildings were known for poor sanitation and fire hazards.
What are the tenemants?
This system in Gilded Age cities allowed political bosses to control elections, city contracts, and jobs in exchange for votes.
What is "the political machine"?
Two presidents with opposing strategies when it came to Reconstruction in the South: One focused on unity / compromise and one focused on radical change through force.
Who are Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant?
These private detectives were hired by big business to spy on and harass labor organizers.
Who are the Pinkertons?
This alliance, including White and Black farmers in the South, became the largest farmers’ organization and eventually led to the creation of a political party.
What is The Farmers' Alliance
This invention pushed the American West into open conflict over cattle farming in the 1880s.
What is barbed wire? (The Fence Cutting Wars)
The Populist Party supported policies like government control of railroads, a graduated income tax, and this plan to loan money to farmers.
What is the subtreasury plan?