Reconstruction
Reforms
Workers, Unions, and Big Business
19th and 20th century Expansion
Vocabulary
100
This amendment, part of the Civil War Amendments, made the owning of other human beings illegal
What is the 13th amendment
100
White Abolitionists who used his newspaper "The Liberator" to campaign for immediate emancipation of slaves
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
100
The first billionaire, and owner of Standard Oil Company
Who is John D. Rockefeller
100
At the start of WWI, America took this position.
What is neutrality
100
A famous printer, inventor, politician, scientist, and continually sought to improve himself.
Who is Benjamin Franklin
200
This amendment, which is part of the Civil War Amendments, said that you could not discriminate voting based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
What is the 15th Amendment
200
During the time of reforms, Horace Mann was associated with this reform movement
What is Public Education
200
He was the leader and creator of the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers
200
In this war, the United States helped Cuba and the Philippines to gain independence
What is the Spanish-American War
200
Religious revival in the colonies which helped spread religious fever, and a belief in the halfway covenant.
What is the Great Awakening
300
This amendment, which is part of the Civil War Amendments, said that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment
300
A muckraking author who exposed Rockefeller and Standard Oil company business practices
Who is Ida Tarbell
300
An example of the U.S. governments support of businesses and dislike of Unions was evident in this event. The federal government sent in troops to suppress a strike after U.S. mail went undelivered on railways.
What is the Pullman Strike
300
Although the U.S. did not actually fight, the greatly aided Panamanian Independence by using the Navy to blockage what country?
What is Columbia
300
This gave the British control over North America and laid the groundwork for the American Revolution which would come several decades later
What is the French and Indian War
400
Restrictions on African Americans, including things such as, not allowing assemblies without a whiter person present, it was illegal to teach Blacks to read or write, etc.
What are Black Codes
400
She was responsible for the creation of Hull House in Chicago and also the creation of the Women's Trade Union League, which attempted to unionize working women
Who is Jane Addams
400
A type of integration in which a company owns all parts of the process of creating their goods. I.E. a company owns the land and trees, the equipment to cut the tress, the trucks to move them, and the factory to make paper
What is vertical integration
400
This was added to the Monroe Doctrine, and stated that the U.S. could aid all countries in South and Central America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary
400
Eli Whitney's most profitable invention, which allowed for people to fix and change certain aspects of a product, rather than but an entire new one
What are interchangeable parts
500
This group was important in helping African Americans after the Civil War in the Southern states, with one of its major focuses being on literacy
What is the Freedman's Bureau
500
Was an era in the late 1800s and early 1900s which saw large scale reforms in society, including child labor laws, breaking up of monopolies, and government corruption
What is the Progressive Era
500
He ran for President five times for the Socialist party, once from Prison, and was the leader of the American Railway Worker Union
Who is Eugene Debs
500
One of the causes of the American involvement in the Spanish-American War. It is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
What is yellow journalism
500
Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans had no rights because they were not citizens, and therefore that Slavery was legal based on the Constitution.
What is the Dred Scott case/decision