AMH 2020
Reconstruction - correct answer ✔✔"A splendid failure", gov determines who votes who is American,
political, social, economic rebuilding of America, good intentions but was a failure
Freedman's Bureau - correct answer ✔✔Federal gov agency that guaranteed slaves freedom, used to
apply aid to AA during disputes, failure too small, 13th passed ways around it: sharecropping, voting
rules, black codes
Radical Republicans - correct answer ✔✔Thought AA should vote, fought for AA rights through violence,
murder, southern rebels in local Govs, 14th is passed
Ku Klux Klan - correct answer ✔✔Political Party through violence against AA and Republicans, Very
violent-killings
Jim Crow - correct answer ✔✔Social segregation- separate all AA and whites, Unequal social status,
lynching, black face, no crossing paths
Ida B. Wells - correct answer ✔✔Sued railroad system for sitting in seat, worked against lynching,
created ideas about race, and hierarchy in the south
Battle of Little Bighorn - correct answer ✔✔AKA Custards Last Stand, found gold on NA land- mined it
anyways, It was victory for NA but the US tired them out and they lost the war
Dawes Act of 1877 - correct answer ✔✔NA didn't understand the concept of land ownership bc they
were always nomadic, drawn Indians into white society, americanize them, Private property they would
sell to whites
Assimilation - correct answer ✔✔Taking away NA culture, American ways of life now, through schools
christianity and English
, The Frontier Thesis - correct answer ✔✔Fredrick Jackson Turner, Period of American expansion, defines
what it means to be American, were settlers really on their own?
Bessemer Converter - correct answer ✔✔Introduced into carnage steel plants, last longer than iron,
represents technological advancements and innovation
Vertical/Horizontal Integration - correct answer ✔✔vertical- owning all parts of the production process
horizontal- buying out your competition
Turned into trust, monopolies, cooperations
Captains of industry/ Robber Barons - correct answer ✔✔Carnegie and Rockefeller, companies have
more say in politics, companies are people= gave politicians money
Knights of Labor - correct answer ✔✔Let everyone in- no strikes, skilled and unskilled workers, first
major railroad union in US
American Federation of Labor - correct answer ✔✔Only skilled workers, strikes were okay, wiling to
make more radical moves
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 - correct answer ✔✔Railroads stopped carrying commerce, led to
homestead strike and Haymarket battle, gov accepted loan from JP Morgan to send troops to make
trains run
Social Gospel - correct answer ✔✔Cared about cites, immigrants, and workers, rich elites and women,
spread through churches, Jane Adams
Settlement Houses - correct answer ✔✔Safe place to live for immigrant workers, americanize them
through settlement programs
Boss System - correct answer ✔✔Way for immigrants to gain political power, provided immigrants favors
for votes