Test Review 1 Flashcards
The Freedman Bureau Act
Emancipation to Reconstruction
Year: 1866
13th Amendment
Emancipation to Reconstruction
Year: 1865
- Made Slavery Illegal
The Freeman’s Bureau
Emancipation to Reconstruction
- Established an agency to help newly freed slaves after the civil war
- Was undermined by the black codes set in the south
14th Amendment
Emancipation to Reconstruction
Year: 1868
- Ratified July 28, 1868
- Native born individuals are citizens
- Defined who could vote: 21yo males
- Expands meaning of freedom through the “equal protection clause”
15th Amendment
Emancipation to Reconstruction
Year: 1870
- Gave African-American males the right to vote
- Prohibts states or national government from denying a citizen the right to vote on the basis of “race, color, or previous contition of servitude”
The Compromise of 1877
Emancipation to Reconstruction
- Settled the presidential election of 1876
- Pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South
- Ended the Reconstuction Era
The Treaty of Hidalgo
Westward Expansion and the Capitalist Transformation of the West
- Brought an official end to the Mexican-American war 1846-1848
- Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New Mexico
- Mexico relinquished all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States
- The US payed $150,000 for the cession
Promontory Point Utah
Westward Expansion and the Capitalist Transformation of the West
- Location where the first Transcontinental Railway was completed
- Finished using a golden spike
Homestead Act
Westward Expansion and the Capitalist Transformation of the West
Year: 1862
- Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant
- Land was 160 acres and had to be settled for 5 years
Dawes Severalty Act
Westward Expansion and the Capitalist Transformation of the West
Year: 1887
- authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship
- used to stimulate assimilation of Indians into mainstream American society
Extractive Economy
Westward Expansion and the Capitalist Transformation of the West
- An economy based on extracting resources from the land and selling it somewhere else
- The resources are sold where manufacturing occurs
- place where resources are taken from are called colonial economy
Frederick W. Taylor
Industrialization and Corporate Reconstruction
- He changed how people worked and thought about work
- He is often associtated with Scientific Management (Taylorism)
- He is associated with the piece-work system which was thought to be more efficient than the hourly system
- He believed that every human variable in the piece system had to be controlled in orer to be efficient
Scientific Management (Taylorism)
Industrialization and Corporate Reconstruction
- theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows. Its main objective is improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering ofprocesses and to management.
Vertical Integration
Industrialization and Corporate Reconstruction
- The supply chain of a company is owned by that company.
Horizontal Combination
Industrialization and Corporate Reconstruction
- When a business gains control of the market for a single product
Laissez-Faire
Industrialization and Corporate Reconstruction
- economy is free from government interference
Slaughter House Case
Industrialization and Corporate Reconstruction
Year: 1873
- ruled that a citizen’s “privileges and immunities,” as protected by the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment against the states, were limited to those spelled out in the Constitution and did not include many rights given by the individual states
The Gospel of Wealth
Middle-Class Life and the Gospel of Wealth
- The term refers to the zeal to make money
- Men who adhered to this were protestants who believed in the protestant work ethic
- The Gospel of Wealth is also tied to Darwin’s “Survival of the Fittest”
The Bradley-Martin Ball
Middle-Class Life and the Gospel of Wealth
Year: 1897
- Ball held to be the “greatest party in the history of the city”
- designed to bring an economic stimulus to end the long depression
- The ball was a social triumph, but created negative publicity