Definitions - RECONSTRUCTION/INDUSTRIAL AGE (1865-1920) Flashcards
The definition of:
Reconstruction (1865-1877)
“Reconstruction, in U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war.”
-Eric Foner, Encyclopaedia Britannica
The definition of:
Compromise of 1877
“The Compromise of 1877 resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election between Democratic candidate Samuel Tilden and Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes.”
-Khan Academy
“Democrats agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become president in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the granting of home rule in the South.
President Hayes’ withdrawal of federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina marked a major turning point in American political history, effectively ending the Reconstruction Era and issuing in the system of Jim Crow.”
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/reconstruction/a/compromise-of-1877
The definition of:
Monopoly
“the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.”
-Oxford Dictionary
The definition of:
Trust
“an arrangement whereby a person (a trustee) holds property as its nominal owner for the good of one or more beneficiaries.”
-Oxford Dictionary
The definition of:
Laissez-Faire
“abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.”
-Oxford Dictionary
The definition of:
Labor Unions
“an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.”
-Oxford Dictionary
The definition of:
Progressive Movement
“A movement for reform that… held that irresponsible actions by the rich were corrupting both public and private life. It called for measures such as trust busting, the regulation of railroads, provisions for the people to vote on laws themselves through referendum, the election of the Senate by the people rather than by state legislatures, and a graduated income tax”
-New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 3rd Ed.
The definition of:
Jim Crow Laws
“any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s”
-Melvin I. Urofsky, Encyclopaedia Britannica
The definition of:
Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
“Plessy v. Ferguson, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on May 18, 1896… advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.”
-Brian Duignan, Encyclopaedia Britannica
The definition of:
Booker T. Washington
“educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and the most influential spokesman for Black Americans between 1895 and 1915.”
-A. Augustyn, J. Wallenfeldt, A. Gaur, G. Lotha, Encyclopædia Britannica
The definition of:
W. E. B. DuBois
“American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. He shared in the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and edited The Crisis, its magazine, from 1910 to 1934.”
-E. Rudwick, Encyclopædia Britannica
