what he put on the board

Question 1

Reconstruction amendments

Answer 1

13,14,15. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. The 14th Amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the US. The 15th Amendment gave Black Americans the right to vote.

Question 2

compromise of 1877

Answer 2

It ended reconstruction

Question 3

Black Codes

Answer 3

Laws that restricted black people’s right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces

Question 4

Pacific Railway Act

Answer 4

legislation to encourage the construction of a transcontinental railroad

Question 5

Homestead Act

Answer 5

Any adult citizen can claim 160 acres

Question 6

Dawes Act

Answer 6

broke up reservations and opened up white settlement on native land

Question 7

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 7

Law restricting immigration into the US. No Chinese workers could come into the US

Question 8

Jane Addams

Answer 8

set up houses for new immigrants- hull house settlement house movement. She in chicago, super progressive, offers education (english, history, poli sci) basic amenities(showers, healthcare, childcare) softens the landing for new immigrants personification of the progressive era

Question 9

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Answer 9

you know what it is. it lead to the transformation of the labor code and made things safer

Question 10

WCTU

Answer 10

Womens Christian Temperance Union- Fought for no liquor, and only abstinence.

Question 11

The Jungle

Answer 11

Book that was an expose about the conditions at the Chicago meat packing plants.

Question 12

Platt Amendment

Answer 12

cuba constitution- they cant take on debt, cant sign treaties, part of cuba goes to the navy (guantanamo bay)

Question 13

USS Maine

Answer 13

Ship that exploded- US blamed Spain, that caused the us Spanish war

Question 14

Great railroad Strike

Answer 14

stike to protest working conditions, 100 ppl were killed, in the end accomplished very little

Question 15

Interstate Commerce Commission

Answer 15

gilded age, if you see a railroad monopoly snitch to the ICC, but it didn’t work at all

Question 16

Russell Conwell

Answer 16

Pastor who wrote & spoke the “Acres of Diamonds” speech. Meaning of the speech was pro-capitalist “opportunity lurks in everyone’s backyard”

Question 17

knights of labor

Answer 17

Union for workers fighting for 8 hour work day, no child labor, equal pay for genders, etc. 1869-1886

Question 18

American federation of labor

Answer 18

national federation founded 1886- obtaining the right to bargain collectively for wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions.

Question 19

new immigrants

Answer 19

there was so many and they were hard to assimilate. 3 RRRs religious diversity- Radicalism (labor unrest, leading unions, anarchists)- Race they aren’t as white so that means they are scary

Question 20

immigration restriction league

Answer 20

Exactly what it sounds like. A Nativist group who wanted to restrict immigration into the U.S. to certain groups they deemed desirable. Lead to the Chinese exclusion act

Question 21

how the other half lives

Answer 21

a book of photojournalism that showed the terrible living conditions in NYC slums in the 1880’s

Question 22

wounded knee massacre

Answer 22

massacre at pine ridge reservation that killed almost 300 Lakota people.

Question 23

Omaha platform

Answer 23

gilded age, super super progressive. Political agenda adopted by the populist party in 1892 at their Omaha, Nebraska convention

Question 24

war industries board

Answer 24

WW1 wilson wants to produce as much as possible which is good for war but bad for workers

Question 25

open door world

Answer 25

Wilsons approach to international politics (free trade, free seas, push democracy, etc) post WW1