US History Exam #1 Flashcards
Thirteenth Amendment
ended slavery
Fourteenth Amendment
granted citizenship to freedmen
Fifteenth Amendment
right to vote could not be denied on account of race
freed blacks were unanimous in their
desire for independence from white control
Education in the South
reached over 10 percent of the school age population of former slaves
faction of the republicans who wanted to punish the confederacy
Radicals
Plessy v Ferguson
separate but equal
Black codes
set of regulations that promoted white supremacy in the south
Recent historian believe that blacks in reconstruction
gained significant improvements
People in the west before white arrival did not include
freed slaves
THe homestead act
granted land to settlers willing and able to farm for five years
Morrill land grant college act was designed to
promote agricultural and techinacal education
The Grangers
Western Farmers
Sand Creek Massacre
American forces slaughtered peaceful Cheyenne
Helen Hunt Jackson
wrote a book about the mistreatment of native americans
Native americans maintained resistance to euro american settler by
maintaining their culture
Dawes Severalty act
created to force assimilation of Indians into society
Frontier Thesis by Frederick Jackson Turner
was about the western frontier. Whitemen= heroes
WHy assimilate native americans?
it was in their “best interest”
first big gusiness in US
railroads
laissez-faire
no government influence in government. Liked by Conservative capitalists
Trustinvented by
Rockefeller
Great Uprising
strike against railroad companies
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois and Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, demonstrated that the Supreme Court in 1886 was
primarily conservative and supported big business
AFL excluded unskilled workers because
they were weak and unreliable
Unions accepted women?
false, they were not accepted most of the time
wome who did laundry and different pieces did
piecework
by 1900 southern and eastern europeans dominated
true
Many immigrants came to the US planning to stay temporarily
true
Gilded Age
1877-1900, amazing achivements distracted from inequality and poverty and social issues
Great Migration
African Americans left the sourth in Huge numbers 1890-1910
Tenements
Multiple family dwellings 4-6 stories poor quality
streetcars
inadequate street cleaning
political machines
powerful urban political organizations that mobilized large blocs of working class and immigrant voters (corrupt and illegal activity)
Boss Tweed
ran political machine in New York
Taminy Hall
Biggest political machine, located in New York
Immigrants and political machines
recieved help from political machines and were seenas bad by many americans
Nativism
anti immigration views and sentiments
Urban Reform
Women’s suffrage, New woman (describing educated, independent, and politically and socially active women)
Social Darwinism
Poor are poor because they aren’t “fit”