Pre Civil War & Civil War
South Carolina was the first state to succeed from the Union. Who was the United States President that was elected and was the final justification for succession.
Abraham Lincoln
Returning a fraction of the harvest to the land owner as rent
Sharecropping
The first big business in America
Railroad Industry
This political group attempted unsuccessfully to represent the needs of ALL men
Populist Party
The upper middle class, often it was the women like Jane Adams who activated for social change.
Progressivists
Where was the opening shots of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Dreams of a "New South" centered on a vision for this
Whenever a person or business sets out to own every step or aspect of production, assembly, and transportation.
vertical integration
Low cost dumbbell shaped buildings that provided housing for the growing urban population (mostly immigrants and their entire families)
Tenement Building
The allegory of this time was represented through this spiraling movie.
The Wizard of OZ
The act that was instituted to assist in the expansion and development of western lands.
The Homestead Act
These set of laws were instituted to perpetuate socioeconomic racisms in the South
Black Codes
Serving as financial advisers to railroads, this group often eventually found themselves taking control.
Investment Bankers
The urban housing design, once hailed as helpful innovation, turned out to be a dangerous blight on the cityscape.
Dumbbell Tenement
This middle class woman, having witnessed special boarding houses on a trip to London, sought to recreate them in America
Jane Adams
Abolitionism became irrelevant after the passage of these
This Supreme Court case established the concept of "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
Business Corporation
This is the primary solution to the realization that cities could hardly survive, let lone grow, without improved transportation.
Electric street cars
This was the pseudo science or common belief that others were inherently better than others and was often measured how well they did in society
Social Darwinism
According to this theory after the Civil War, any poor farmer could work his way up, rung by rung, until he owned his own land.
Agricultural Ladder
Disenfranchisement
These steel tycoons illustrate the process of developing and industrial corporation.
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
Eventually lead to safer working conditions and fire safety laws like occupation capacity or unlocked doors
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Civil Service merit standards and procedures for government jobs were outlined in this 1883 act.
Pendleton Act