Reconstruction
This amendment prohibited denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
15th Amendment
The group of laborers that most contributed to building the western leg of the Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese Immigrants
Overcrowded, low-quality urban housing for working-class and immigrant populations
Tenements
Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the freedom of African Americans and maintain white supremacy, limiting their economic opportunities, movement, and civil rights.
Black Codes
This animal almost went extinct after over-hunting in the west for sport, meat, leather, and fertilizer
Bison
A federal agency established in 1865 to provide support to former slaves, including food, housing, medical aid, education, and legal assistance during the Reconstruction period.
Freedmen's Bureau
The process by which different cultural groups adopt the practices, values, and customs of the dominant culture, often leading to the loss of their original cultural identity.
Assimilation
A business or market situation where a single company or group controls the entire supply of a particular good or service, eliminating competition and often leading to high prices and limited consumer choices.
Monopoly
Formerly enslaved people turned agricultural workers who farmed land owned by someone else and paid rent through a portion of their crop harvest, often trapping them in a cycle of economic dependency
Sharecroppers
This Act funded creation of institutions, mostly higher ed for agriculture, science (U of I, Ohio State, Purdue, etc)
The Morrill Act (The Land-Grant College Act)
Northerners who moved to the Southern United States during Reconstruction to seek economic or political opportunities
Carpetbaggers
This Act provided federal subsidies to fund land and supplies to build railroads
The Pacific Railroad Act
Wealthy industrialists and businessmen of the late 19th century who accumulated massive fortunes through aggressive and often unethical business practices, monopolistic strategies, and exploitation of workers.
Robber Barons
A white supremacist hate group founded after the Civil War that used violence, intimidation, and terror to oppose Reconstruction and suppress African American civil rights.
Ku Klux Klan
Journalists who exposed business practices, poverty, and corruption
Muckrakers
Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War
Scalawags
Name 3 "Western Industries" or jobs someone might have
Miners, Farmers, Cattle Ranchers, Cowboys
An economic system characterized by minimal government intervention, where businesses and markets are allowed to operate with little to no regulation, based on the principle of free-market capitalism.
Laissez Faire Economy
or Hands-Off Economy
Lincoln and his cabinet had a plan called Special Field Order 15 that would give formerly enslaved people 40 acres and a mule. Who revoked this plan?
Andrew Johnson
What is the official title of the photograph that records the celebration marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad lines at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869 and famously excludes Chinese workers.
The Golden Spike
Removal or suppression of voting rights for specific groups of people
Example: Southern states using literacy tests and poll taxes to prevent African Americans from voting
Disenfranchisement
This act reserved 160 acres for settlers for a very small fee, encouraged people to move west
The Homestead Act 1862
Thorstein Veblen’s book (looking for the title) that defines wealth as having time for hobbies, hosting, and travel.
Theory of the Leisure Class (1890)
In 1877, President Hayes made this deal to end reconstruction if he became president.
This meant all military presence and monitoring of the south would be gone.
Corrupt Bargain or the Compromise of 1877
Name the two photo-journalists that we analyzed their photography both in tenements and of child labor conditions.
Jacob Riis &
Lewis Hine