Reconstruction
The period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South.
What was Reconstruction?
Southern laws restricting Black freedom
what were Black codes or Jim Crow laws?
Policy forcing Native Americans to adopt white culture
What is assimilation or americanization
Economic philosophy opposing government regulation
What is Laissez-faire
Law banning Chinese immigration
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Lincoln's plan required ___% of voters to swear loyalty to rejoin the Union.
What is 10%
White supremacist group using terror and intimidation
Who is the KKK
Law granting 160 acres of free land to settlers out west (usually taking native american land and giving it to white settlers)
What was the Homestead Act?
Steel-making method lowering production costs in the steel industry
BONUS: which robber baron utilized the Bessemer process in his industry
What was the Bessemer process?
Who was Andre Carnegie
Process workers used to negotiate with employers
What is collective bargaining?
Agency providing food, schools, and aid to freedmen (newly free african american slaves)
What is the freedmen's bureau?
Economic crisis that weakened support for Reconstruction
What was the Panic of 1873?
African Americans who migrated west
Answer: Exodusters
Who were exodusters?
Large-scale commercial farms that specialized in producing one thing
What are Bonanza farms?
Reform movement exposing corruption and injustice
BONUS: name for journalists who would expose the injustices in society
DOUBLE BONUS: give me the name of the muckraker who wrote "The Jungle"
What was progressivism?
what are muckrakers?
who is upton sinclair?
President (after Linoln) whose policies weakened Reconstruction efforts, pardoned confederates and did not advance rights of african americans
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Economic system trapping freedmen in debt in order to farm the land
What is sharecropping?
Treaty guaranteeing Native lands on the Plains
and the act that broke up those lands
What were the Treaty of Fort Laramie and the Dawes Act?
Movement demanding economic reform for farmers
BONUS: Organization formed to help farmers repay debts
What was populism ?
and the Farmers' Alliance
This urban political system traded jobs, services, and favors for votes, often through party bosses.
BONUS: name of a significant political machine in the late 1800's who operated out of Tammany Hall
What is a political machine?
Who was Boss Tweed?
1. Amendment that abolished slavery
2. Amendment that defined citizenship
3. Amendment granting voting rights to Black men
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
President whose election ended Reconstruction in 1876
President elected in 1885 and was the first democrat elected after the civil war
Who was Rutherford B Hayes and Grover Cleveland?
who was the Lakota leader who resisted U.S. expansion?
BONUS: American Resistance at which battle?
Who was Sitting Bull?
And what was The Battle of Wounded Knee?
Railroad linking the nation coast-to-coast
Court case allowing regulation of railroads
What was the transcontinental railroad?
and Munn v Illinois
Rockefeller’s method of eliminating competition
Carnegie’s method of controlling production
what is horizontal integration
and what is vertical integration