Reform Movements
They were members one of the Utopian communities and they believed that both male and female are spiritually equal.
Shakers
the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
Secession
People who favored gold standards
Goldbugs
It was an organization that fought for farmers' rights.
Grange
A person who invented telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
A movement to end slavery.
Abolitionism
a name applied to the Kansas Territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between proslavery and antislavery forces.
"Bleeding Kansas"
a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War, they provided food, housing, medical aid, education, and legal assistance during the Reconstruction Era.
Freedmen's Bureau
a railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869.
Transcontinental Railroad
This house offered social services and education to the urban poor/immigrants
Settlement Houses
A women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. From this convention came the "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments".
The Seneca Falls Convention
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Debate on slavery
Lincoln believed that the country should have a single policy on slavery, and Douglas believed that each state should decide its own policy.
80% of the black males could do this during Reconstruction Era.
Vote
a law, enacted in 1887, that was intended to “Americanize” Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners.
Dawes Act
a cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850
Bessemer Process
Women were expected to take care of home life and not working for profit. What do you call this?
Cult of domesticity
an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines.
Emancipation Proclamation
the discriminatory laws passed throughout the post-Civil War South which severely restricted African Americans’ lives, prohibiting such activities as traveling without permits, carrying weapons, serving on juries, testifying against whites, and marrying whites.
Black Codes
Native Americans tried to surrender but nervous white soldiers started shooting at them and killed 200.
Wounded Knee Massacre
economic system in which businesses are allowed to compete for profits with limited government regulation
Free enterprise
a policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823.
Monroe Doctrine
A landmark Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
They rented land but brought their own tools to farm.
tenan farmers
Name all three Reconstruction Amendments. Bonus points if you can say what all three are.
13th Amendment (1865): Abolished slavery throughout the United States.
14th Amendment (1868): Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and guaranteed them equal protection of the laws.
15th Amendment (1870): Prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
the government would have no role in business whatsoever.
Laissez-faire policy
This is where General Lee surrendered and effectively ended the Civil War
Appomatox Court House
In this compromise, the president would remove all federal troops that occupied the former Confederate states. When the president removed all the troops, it ended the Reconstruction Era.
Compromise of 1877
Carlisle School's lasting impact?
It contributed to the erosion of Native American cultural identities.