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| 354137355 | Radical Reconstruction | Was a period in United States history, 1863-1877, that resolved the issues of the American Civil War when both the Confederacy and its system of slavery were destroyed | |
| 354137356 | Plessy v Ferguson | supreme court ruled that segregation public places facilities were legal as long as the facilites were equal | |
| 354137357 | Joseph Pulitzer | publisher of "new York World" who used yellow journalism, was very critical of the Spanish | |
| 354137358 | Knights of Labor | 1st effort to create National union. Open to everyone but lawyers and bankers. Vague program, no clear goals, weak leadership and organization. Failed | |
| 354137359 | Crop Lien System | System that allowed farmers to get more credit. They used harvested crops to pay back their loans. | |
| 354137360 | A Century of Dishonor | Written by Helen Hunt Jackson, it detailed the injustices made to Native Americans during US expansion | |
| 354137361 | Gospel of Wealth | This was a book written by Carnegie that described the responsibility of the rich to be philanthropists. This softened the harshness of Social Darwinism as well as promoted the idea of philanthropy. | |
| 354137362 | Yellow Journalism | Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers | |
| 354137363 | Social Darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. | |
| 354137364 | Vertical Integration | Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution | |
| 354137365 | Cult of Domesticity | idealized view of women & home; women, self-less caregiver for children, refuge for husbands | |
| 354137366 | Boxer Rebellion | A rebellion of traditionalist Chinese people who wanted to throw the foreigners out | |
| 354137367 | Samuel Gompers | He was the creator of the American Federation of Labor. He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers. | |
| 354137368 | Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Passed by Congress on 9th April 1866 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition. | |
| 354137369 | Farmer's Alliance | A Farmers' organization founded in late 1870s; worked for lower railroad freight rates, lower interest rates, and a change in the governments tight money policy | |
| 354137370 | Jim Crow Laws | Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights | |
| 354137371 | Redemption | This act was a result of Southern Democrats recapturing the governments of many Southern states. | |
| 354137372 | "Waving the Bloody Shirt" | An expression used as a vote getting stratagem by the Republicans during the election of 1876 to offset charges of corruption by blaming the Civil War on the Democrats. | |
| 354137373 | Seward's Folly | many criticized William Seward's purchase of Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, calling it his folly. | |
| 354137374 | Edward Bellamy | In 1888, he wrote Looking Backward, 2000-1887, a description of a utopian society in the year 2000. | |
| 354137375 | Boss Tweed | Leader of the Democratic Tammany Hall, New York political machine | |
| 354137376 | Chataugua Movement | Brought learning, culture and, entertainment to the small towns and villages of America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. | |
| 354137377 | "Forty Acres and a Mule" | failed attempt to help freed blacks during reconstruction - had promised blacks forty acres of land and a mule to plow with | |
| 354137378 | Coxey's Army | unemployed workers marched from ohio to wahsington to draw attention to the plight of workers and to ask for goverment relief | |
| 354137379 | Chinese Exclusion Act | Pased in 1882; banned Chinese immigration in US for a total of 40 years because the United States thought of them as a threat. Caused chinese population in America to decrease. | |
| 354137380 | Andrew Carnegie | Creates Carnegie Steel. Gets bought out by banker JP Morgan and renamed U.S. Steel. Andrew Carnegie used vertical integration by buying all the steps needed for production. Was a philanthropist. Was one of the "Robber barons" | |
| 354137381 | Credit Moblier Scandal | 1872 - Union Pacific Railway created a ficticious construction company and hired itself to work (using government funds) - scandal broke loose and leaders attempted to bribe Congress with Union Pacific stock | |
| 354137382 | Teller Amendment | Legislation that promised the US would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war | |
| 354137383 | Wounded Knee | In 1890, after killing Sitting Bull, the 7th Cavalry rounded up Sioux at this place in South Dakota and 300 Natives were murdered and only a baby survived. | |
| 354137384 | Anti-Saloon League | National organization set up in 1895 to work for prohibition. Later joined with the WCTU to publicize the effects of drinking. | |
| 354137385 | Jacob Riis | A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890. |
