Reconstruction
This period occurred between 1865 and 1877.
What is the Reconstruction?
This trapped southern free Blacks and immigrants into staying and working on farms for little to no pay.
What is sharecropping?
The author who coined the phrase, the Gilded Age"
Who is Mark Twain?
These laws were enacted to control African Americans.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This became a euphemism for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise.
What is the white man's burden?
A Civil War commander who received praise and admiration from BOTH the North and South.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Political unrest, religious freedom, economic opportunity, and reunite with family members
What are reasons for immigration?
This group of people were removed from their homes or forced to assimilate with the white community.
Who are the Native Americans?
This describes the systematic accumulation of poor Americans into sections of urban areas.
What is ghettoization?
The US President that led America into war and unbridled imperialism.
Who is President William McKinley?
He wanted to forgive the southern states and allow reunification with the Union with only 10 percent signing a loyalty oath.
Who is President Lincoln?
New cheaper, faster, and safer developments in this area of industrialization encouraged an influx of immigration.
What is transportation?
He ran a Wild West show that glorified cowboys and demonized Native Americans.
Who is Buffalo Bill?
Many Blacks migrated to the North for safety from this rising group of Southern Whites.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This war was fought between the US and Spain and had more soldiers die of yellow fever than combat.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This legislation defined equal citizenship, reduced state representation in Congress, and denied former Confederates the right to hold office.
What is the fourteenth amendment?
A movement that encouraged blacks and immigrants to settle in the North.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This rich steel tycoon believed in the survival of the fittest ideas first introduced by Herbert Spencer.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This philosophy advocated for staying out of foreign entanglements.
What is isolationism?
Congress extended this controversial ruling that gave black citizens the same rights as whites.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This population was encouraged to immigrate to help build the Continental Railroad.
Who are the Chinese immigrants?
A legal entity that allows individuals to control large corporations without being employees or even owners of the corporation.
What are trusts?
He believed that only the top 10% most intellectual Blacks should represent the Black community and be heard in politics.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This updated and strengthened the Monroe Doctrine's rejection of possible European claims to territory in the Americas.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?