Reconstruction
What is Radical Reconstruction?
Recronstruction that focused on providing the freedmen rights
What is a robber baron
Used corrupt or unethical methods to get ahead of competition
13th admendment
Abolishment of Slavery
Who wrote The Jungle?
Upton Sincliar
What was the cold war?
A time of conflict and tension between the USA and USSR.
What is Presidental Reconstruction?
What Lincoln wanted: Focused on forgivness of the south, reunification of the union, and ratification of the 13th admedment
What was ellis island and where was it located
14th admendment
What is a muckracker?
Define Containment as it relates to the cold war.
Stopping the spread of communism
What was the problem with Sharecropping
It put freed people in a cycle of debt and poverty that was hard to get out of.
What is a monoply?
When one person/company controls an entire industry
15th admendment
the right to vote for black men.
How did workers try to solve problems
Striking and/or Joining Unions
Name the military alliance created by the United States after WW2
NATO
Name 3 voting restrictions placed on african americans
Poll taxes, Literacy Tests, and Grandfather clause
What was a benift of the era of industrial growth?
A higher standard of living, new products, growth of cities
19th admendent
Women can vote
What laws were passed after the publication of the jungle?
The meat inspection act and pure food and drug act
That the idea of segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What was the ruiling in Plessy v. Ferguson
Who are Nativists?
People who don't like immigrants
What law abolished trusts and monoplies?
Sherman anti-trust act
Name 3 forms that expanded democracy
Direct primary, recall, initiative, referendum
Boycotting, Protesting, Sit-ins