Topic 1
What is the time period immediately following the Civil War called?
Reconstruction
What is the term for people leaving farming jobs to move to urban areas to work in factories...
Industrialization
Why were industrial workers upset and protesting against their employers?
Dangerous conditions, better hours, and better wages
Tammany Hall was a political machine in NYC, what did it do?
Bribed voters with money, food, housing, etc., especially immigrants.
What event ended Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
What were two major issues that needed to be resolved after the Civil War?
How to reunite the Union, how to rebuild the economy, how to extend rights to former slaves
How was John D. Rockefeller to control the Oil Industry?
Horizontal Integration
What labor union consisted of Unskilled workers?
Knights of Labor
What did Plessy v. Ferguson establish
What is the Spoils System?
Rewarding party loyalty instead of jobs based on merit. (Giving jobs to friends).
Was Andrew Johnson's approach to reconstruction lenient or strict?
Lenient, because he wanted the Southern States to rejoin quickly
Andrew Carnegie dominated the steel industry by utilizing
Vertical Integration
Samuel Gompers founded the...
AFL
What were 2 examples of Jim Crow Laws?
Poll Tax, Grandfather Clause, Literacy Test
Why was the WCTU trying to gain suffrage?
Men were getting drunk and beating their wives, they were spending their wages on alcohol
Limited African American freedoms
European immigrants came to the U.S. Through...
Ellis Island
What were some things that farmers struggled with in the 1890s?
Debt, rail road rates, and low crop prices.
Booker T wanted gradual equality, Du Bois wanted it immediately
What did Jane Addams found?
The Hull House
What does the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments do?
13th - Abolish Slavery
14th - Citizenship for former slaves
15th- Extend voting rights to African American men
Asian Immigrants came through the U.S. at Angel Island which is located...
San Francisco
William Jennings Bryan
What year did Women gain suffrage?
1920
African Africans that were moving to the West "promised land"