Vocabulary
Emerging hate group that resulted as a response to the Reconstruction Amendments
What was the Ku Klux Klan
One of the issues that progressives fought to improve in the country.
What are working conditions/hours/education/race relations/prohibition/women's suffrage
This is what resulted from the ratification of the 13th Amendment
What was the abolishment of slavery
The word "Gilded" means
What is gold-plated
The legal practice of separating different races in all aspects of public life.
What is segregation
What is the Free Enterprise System/Laissez-Faire Theory
Jacob Riis, a muckraker, published an expose titled "How the Other Half Lives" showcasing these cheaply made apartments
What are Tenements
This is what resulted from the 15th Amendment
What was African American male suffrage
During the Gilded Age, this group had more power than the President
Who were Captains of Industry/Robber Barons? (Big Business owners/trusts)
The Supreme Court case that established segregation as the law of the land in the United States
What was Plessy v. Ferguson
National labor union organized by skilled and unskilled workers alike
Who were the Knights of Labor OR who were the American Federation of Labor
Investigative Journalist, famous for his expose of a Chicago meat packing warehouse. "The Jungle"
Who was Upton Sinclair
Discriminatory laws directed at the disenfranchisement of African Americans
What were Jim Crow Laws
Taxes on foreign imports in order to incentivize American business
What are protective tariffs
A Jim Crow law that required citizens pass a test in order to prove a certain level of education
What are literacy tests
Investigative journalists that worked to reveal the issues within society
What were Muckrakers
The pieces of legislation passed in response to Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
What are the Meat Inspection Act/Pure Food and Drug Act
A large scale murder that occurred in Louisiana as a result of the Ku Klux Klan
What was the Colfax Massacre
These incentivized inventors to create their own inventions/ideas
What are patents
The system put in place in many southern states in order to keep freed slaves in similar situations and underneath land owners
What was sharecropping
The propaganda campaign that attempted to change the meaning of the Civil War to be more sympathetic to the Confederacy
What was the "Lost Cause"
Two benefits of the annexation of Hawaii
What are military bases and profitable sugar plantations
The federal holiday celebrating the final slaves being freed in Texas, 1865.
What is Juneteenth
The event that associated the Knights of Labor and all labor unions with violence
What was the Haymarket Riot
The Supreme Court case that finally ended the practice of segregation
What was Brown v. Board of Education