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Vocabulary
Reconstruction
Industrialization
Immigration
Miscellaneous
100
A white southerner who supported Reconstruction
What is scalawag?
100
The three plans that were laid out for Reconstruction?
What are Lincoln's Plan, Johnson's Plan and the Radical Republicans plan?
100
Article that spoke of the rich people of Americas duty to spread their wealth to the less fortunate
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
100
5 push factors that caused immigrants to leave their home countries
War Lack of jobs Oppressive government Lack of food Drought Disease etc.
100
New form of travel that made it easier for people, goods and supplies to travel from one side of the country to the other
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
Laws that restricted the rights and freedoms of freed Black men and women
What are the Black Codes?
200
Amendment to the Constitution that made African Americans citizens
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
Theory that stated that the United States government should do as little as possible to interfere with the success or failure of business
What is Social Darwinism?
200
5 Pull factors that caused people to come to the United States
More jobs Better living conditions Family More freedom More food etc.
200
Set of laws that drastically limited what African Americans could and could not do in the 19th/20th century South
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
300
To adapt to the customs of the dominant culture
What is to assimilate?
300
Group of white southerners who would intimidate African Americans and used violence to keep them from voting
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
The process of making steel more efficiently, which was patented in 1856
What is the Bessemer Process?
300
Two places that immigrants arrived at which served as the first step in their coming to the United States?
What is Ellis Island and Angel Island?
300
Amendment to the United States Constitution that ended slavery
What is the 13th?
400
A low-cost apartment building that often had poor living standards
What is a tenement?
400
Amendment to the Constitution that gave African Americans the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
When a company has complete control over a product or service, it is known as this
What is monopoly?
400
Which area of Europe did the majority of immigrants come from in the 19th century?
What is Western Europe?
400
Main reasons why cities grew during the 19th century?
What is due to immigration and industrialization?
500
A violent massacre of Jews
What is a Pogrom?
500
Main reason why Andrew Johnson was impeached
What is abuse of power and not fulfilling the duties of his position?
500
A group of separate companies that are placed under the control of a singled managing board, it is known as this
What is a trust?
500
The lowest part or the back part of a ship in which most immigrants traveled to America in
What is steerage?
500
Are in which one ethnic or racial group dominates
What is a ghetto?