Post Civil War Page 2 Flashcards
How did Americanization affect Native Americans
As American settlement moved more west they push the Indians off of their homeland into reservation
How does social Darwinist apply Darwins theories to society
They thought if they are more powerful than they were better than everyone else
Why did Congress take a more active role in reconstruction
Black codes and KKK
Who advocated tougher standards for re-establishing southern state government
Andrew Johnson and congress
Define carpetbagger
Carpet bagger – southern critics Allied with northern Republicans who came south to take part in the religious political and economic rebirth,
Define sharecropping
A system used on Southern Farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked on land Owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops
What Were tenements
Poorly built, overcrowded houses were immigrants lived
What were settlement houses
Houses were immigrants could learn English and American culture, wealthy women worked here
Know about the four leading industrialists of this time.
Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller, pullman, Vanderbilt
What is a Monopoly
When you have a lot of Something
What was tammany Hall
It was a political force in New York City
What was Andrew Johnson’s reconstruction plan
The same as Lincolns plan but he made the rich people apply to get a full pardon to
How did government policy toward Indians change in the mid-1800s
They broke their treaties and began to force them off their land into reservations so that they could settle the land
How did rail roads affect the settlement of the west
I helped increase it
What happened to mine camps after the mining era
They were abandoned
