Social Studies Final

Reconstruction Plans

Reconstruction Amendments
(Civil War Amendments)

Laws formed to limit freedom of former slaves

Northern Republicans who moved south during reconstruction for economic opportunity

Southern republicans in the south during reconstruction

Party who was very strict on the south that included Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens

President who was lenient to southerners during reconstruction that was impeached

Act that required senate approval of a replacement before the president could remove an appointed offical

Name given to former slaves as a result of the Black Codes

Terrorist group against A.A. that lynched and killed A.A.. their leader was Nathan Bedford Forest

President who beat democrat Tilden by one electoral vote. Led to Compromise of 1877 which lifted union guard in the south

Farmer worked part of land in return for shelter and food. Kept A.A. on plantations due to debt

Aided millions of southerners (freedman) who were left homeless and hungry

Court case that brought up the law of the land in the south "Separate but equal"

Influential A.A. who believed A.A. needed an education to advance

Group formed to help end racial discrimination towards A.A.

Thought A.A. should focus on economic attention for economic equality

Focused attention on stopping the lynching of A.A. to keep public focused on the issue

President that advocated westward expansion

Land out west inhabited by N.A.

Act that encouraged settlement out west by giving 160 acres of land to farmers to make a profit out of it

People who took advantage of the Homestead Act

Southerners (mostly A.A.) who settled in western lands to escape the Jim Crow Laws

Railroad that connected both ends of the U.S.

The cattle industry that took off in the west

Long treks in which cowboys herded cattle from ranches to rail lines

Wrote the book "A Century of Dishonor" about the horrid treatment of the N.A.

Act set to assimilate the N.A. to the American Culture

American attack on a N.A. camp where 300 American soldiers died

Leader of the Nez Perce "I will fight no more forever"

Area where N.A. were placed by Americans when americans took their land

Organization of farmers that banded together and formed something like a union

Party formed by the Grange that wanted the standard for money to be silver to cause inflation so their debt would not be as high

Americans who opposed immigration

Age where the government looked good but was actually very corrupt

Groups that would run local governments and do corrupt and shady things to stay in power (the Tweed Ring)

Political cartoonist who showed what was actually going on with the government (muckraker)

Created settlement houses to help immigrants in America

Places where immigrants went to get help with starting out in America

Popular sports and entertainment in America

Apartment buildings in cities where many immigrants lived which had terrible conditions to live in

Custom center for immigrants from Europe

Custom center for immigrants from Asia

The increase in factories and manufacturing of countries

Nickname given to captains of industry like Carnagy (steel) Rockefeller (oil) and Pullman (sleeping car)

Business practice for eliminating competition

Business practice for eliminating the middle man

Act that went after trusts (90% of the business)

Invented the light bulb and figured out a way to harness electricity

groups of workers that banded together in workplaces to receive better working conditions or better pay

system used by Garfield that brought in people who supported the president into winning rather than bringing in people with skill (Spoils system)

Three progressive presidents

The act of breaking up trusts

Act that allowed the federal government regulate interstate commerce

Act that allowed the federal government to regulate railroads

Acts that inspected food, meat, and drugs to make sure that they were pure and good to consume

Another act that tried to break up trusts

Controlled interest rates and the banking system

People (mainly journalists) who dug through the dirt of society to expose problems to the public

16th Amendment

17th amendment

18th amendment

19th amendment

Woman's sufferage

third party of the progressive era

Law that made children go to school (decrease in child labor)

President during the Spanish-American War

method used to sell more newspapers by exaggerating stories

Ship that exploded in a harbor in Cuba that sparked the Spanish-American war

War in 1898 that lasted 4 months, U.S. won

Built when Roosevelt decided to help the Panamanians with their revolt

Addition to the Monroe Doctorine

Progressive era president's "slogan"

Progressive president's foreign diblomacy

Dealt with China's spheres of influence that said everyone was aloud to trade with China

Seward purchased Alaska

Countries dealt with in Spanish American War

In 1893 U.S. overthrew their government and annexed them

Key European leader in 1914

Caused of WWI

digging trenches and sending poison gas and bombs into enemy trenches

Area between trenches

Message intercepted by the U.S. from Germany to Mexico asking Mexico if they would make an alliance with Germany

What got the U.S. involved in the war

2 ways American citizen helped with war efforts

Wilson's plan for peace after WWI

Happen on November 11th, at 11:00AM 1918

Treaty made after WWI. Planted seed for WWII

14th point of the 14 points. US came up with it but did not join. Failed.

Pres. Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover were all republican presidents of the 1920s and practiced