Gilded Age Terms
the reasons that people leave their home countries and settle in new ones
What are Push/Pull factors?
The last Reconstruction president
The process of taking on the traits of the dominant culture to the point where a formerly disctinct group is socially indistinguishable from other members of the society
What is Assimilation?
These three constiutional amendments abolished slavery (except as a means of criminal punishment), established a firm definition of citizenship, and provided suffrage to African American men
What are The 13th, 14th, and 15 amendments or The Reconstruction Amendments
The bloodiest single instance of racial violence in the Reconstruction era
What was Colfax Courthouse Massacre?
A method for organizing your thoughts in a formal structure for writing
what is T.E.A.?
Two terms that represent the difference in opinion of the Immigrant experience in America--one supposes a place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc. are mixed together while the other a metaphor for the way an intercultural society can integrate different cultures while maintaining their separate identities
What is the Melting Pot and the Salad Bowl
(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial
What is Lynching?
A speech given by Fredrick Douglas that explained that the sooner we accept the vast diversity of our nation, the sooner we will be able to come into our full glory
What was The Composite Nation?
a series of laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to limit the rights of African Americans and ensure they remained a cheap labor force
What are Black Codes?
What was The Great Railroad Strike
A method for analyzing historical documents
what is H.A.P.P.Y.?
a collective refusal by employees to work in protest of their employer's conditions
What is a Labor Strike?
A distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda--known most famously for hiding behind white hoods and white robes
Who are The Ku Klux Klan?
A system created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle
What was The Reservation System?
a series of three bills passed by Congress between 1870 and 1871 to protect the rights of African Americans
What were The Enforcement Acts?
A violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers' rights--The rally was part of a series of events held in Chicago to advocate for an eight-hour workday.
What were The Haymarket Riots?
A format for creating a works consulted page in history
what is MLA?
A train route across the entire United States, finished in 1869
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to support Reconstruction
Who were Carpet Baggers?
A great plains group that was the last to push back against the process of assimilation
Who were the Lakota/Sioux?
a law passed in 1887 that allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands and distribute them to individual Native Americans
What was The Dawes Act?
the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in southwestern South Dakota. This action was the climax of the U.S. Army's late 19th-century efforts to repress the Plains Indians and marked the definitive end of Indian resistance to the encroachments of white settlers
What was The Massacre at Wounded Knee?
It is the last sentence in any intro paragraph for all formal papers
what is a thesis?
a geographical area where a particular ethnic group is spatially clustered and socially and economically distinct from the majority group
What were Ethnic Enclaves?
A derisive term for a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction
Who were Scalawags?
This imperative resource for Plains Native Americans was nearly eliminated from the United States due to the rapid and tremendous growth of the rail system
What were Buffalo?
The first significant law restricting immigration into the United States--it was a ban on unskilled laborers
What was The Chinese Exclusion Act?
The official death of Reconstruction
What is The Compromise of 1877?
It starts off each body paragraph
What is a Topic Sentence?