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State laws that subjected former slaves to a series of special regulations and restrictions on their freedom were called
black codes
Southern Whites who supported the southern Republican Party during Reconstruction were
scalawags
The Treaty of Fort Laramie required
the United States to abandon routes traveling through Sioux territory.
The thesis that hard work and perseverance lead to wealth, implying that poverty is a character flaw.
Gospel of Wealth
guaranteed the right of American men to vote.
The Fifteenth Amendment
Which statement would most likely have been said by a nativist?
"The nation's purity is being ruined by Catholics and undesirable foreigners."
attempted to weaken the powers of the president.
. The Tenure of Office Act
Which description is the best portrayal of the Southern Farmers' Alliance?
An organization founded in traditional southern values and cooperative ventures.
What happened at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890?
At least 200 Sioux men, women, and children were slaughtered.
An American force commanded by George A. Custer was overwhelmed during the
Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Which statement about the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction is true?
Blacks and whites who supported democratic reforms were attacked by members.
The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between the Republicans and Democrats that confirmed Rutherford B. Hayes as President of the US in the
Election of 1876.
How did the Freedmen's Bureau belie what lay ahead for southern blacks?
It gave the impression that freed blacks would experience rapid success.
. Which statement about the Fourteenth Amendment is true?
It guaranteed all citizens equality before the law.
Who was the founder of Hull House in Chicago?
Jane Addams
A labor union founded in 1869 that included skilled and unskilled workers irrespective of race or gender.
Knights of Labor
What is the term that refers to the period immediately following the Civil War?
Reconstruction
was a social reform effort that used neighborhood centers in which workers lived and worked among the poor, often in slum neighborhoods.
The Settlement House
Which statement about the Sand Creek Massacre is true?
The brutal attack included the killing of women and children.
Which statement would most likely have been said by a believer in Social Darwinism?
The laws of nature dictate the conditions of life for both rich and poor."
This organization formed in 1874 and were opponents of alcohol
WCTU
segregation
a system imposed through law and custom where people are separated by race
A combination of corporations cooperating in order to reduce competition and control prices is called
a trust
American workers were drawn to the American Federation of Labor's emphasis on
collective bargaining.
Representatives of a union negotiating with management on behalf of all members is called
collective bargaining.
The denial of a citizen's right to vote is called
disfranchisement
. The term Solid South refers to the
dominance of the Democratic Party in southern politics
The term "Great Migration"
refers to the mass movement of American blacks from the rural South to the urban North.
jim crow laws
established segregation as an institution in southern states
The Homestead Act
guaranteed free acres of land to citizens who farmed the land for five years.
A huge group of Jewish immigrants escaped from the pogroms
in Russia
Executions, usually by a mob, without a trial are called
lynchings
Effects of the Dawes Act included
more Indian land being owned by whites
The most commonly used form of disfranchisement in the South was the
poll taxs
White southerners used the term carpetbaggers to describe
powerful white northerners who lived in the South.
The term gilded age
refers specifically to a time when materialistic excess and sharp social divisions existed.
1. Many southerners refused to accept their defeat as divine judgment and believed that God had spared the South for a greater purpose;
they came to view the war as the Lost Cause.
An example of vertical integration
was Gustavus Swift's control of all aspects of meatpacking
The leader of the Sand Creek Massacre, John Chivington,
was a Methodist minister
a tenement
was a building often in disrepair and usually four to six stories in height, in which cheap apartments were rented to tenants.
The use of sweatshops
was most common in the garment industry
The Chisholm Trail
was used to drive cattle northward
Grandfather clauses and poll taxes
were used to deny blacks the right to vote