HUSH Unit 6 Study Guide

Presidents of Reconstruction

Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes

Reconstruction

The period of time from 1865-1877 when the country was put back together after the destruction of the Civil War

Hiram Revels

First African Senator in 1870

Tim Scott

Only African Republican Senator who is Senator of South Carolina

George Custer

U.S. Commander in Native American Wars Who was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Montana by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

Defeated Custer in Custer’s Last Stand

Edwin Drake

Invented steam engine drill

William LeBaron Jenny

1st steel Skyscraper

Andrew Carnegie

Found a cheaper way to make steel

Christopher Sholes

Invented the typewriter

Alexander Graham Bell

Invented the telephone

Thomas Edison

Invented the light bulb

Jane Addams

Key activitist in the Social Gospel Movement

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President; 1st Progressive Era President; Republican who served from 1901-1909; explorer; made the Square Deal; conservationist

Willliam Taft

27th President; 1909-1918; progressive president; asked by Roosevelt to run for office, but didn’t meet his expectations; known for being overweight

Woodrow Wilson

28th President; 1913-1921; progressive presidents; segregated federal offices

Upton Sinclair

Author of “The Jungle” that exposed the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry

Booker T. Washington

Was invited by TR to White House for Civil Rights

13th amendment

Freed slavery in the Union territory

14th Amendment

Gave former slave’s rights

16th Amendment

Graduated Income Tax-1913

17th Election

Direct Election of Senators-1913

18th Amendment

Prohibition

19th Amendment

Woman’s right to vote woman’s suffrage-1919

Ku Klux Klan

Wanted to restore white supremacy in the South by preventing Blacks from exercising their political rights and murdered thousands

Dawes Act of 1887

Reservations divided land of 160 acres for Native Americans to live on

Battle of Wounded Knee

The 7th Calvary finished the job Custard started and ended the Plains Wars

Chisholm trail

A trail used by cowboys to move cattle

Sooners

Land “squatters” who claimed land before they were allowed to

Homestead Act

people were offered a free 160 acres if they moved out west

Transcontinental Railroad

First one built in 1869 ; Central Pacific and Union Pacific

Exodusters

African-American Southerners now moving west

Morill Act

It Gave federal land to states to finance agricultural colleges

Bessemer Process

Removes carbon

Ellis Island

NYC immigration station where immigrants went through 5 hour process with a physical examination

Angel Island

San Francisco immigration station; primarily Asian immigrants; filthier and longer examination than Ellis

Nativism

Public sentiment that demonstrated favoritism toward native-born Americans and supported anti-immigrant legislation and actions

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

Banned most Chinese immigration —repealed in 1943

Gentleman’s agreement of 1907-1908

Japan agreed to limit emigration in exchange for desegregating California schools

Social Gospel movement

salvation by helping the poor and immigrants

Settlement Houses

Taught English, provided education, financial support, and medical attention

Goals of progressive movement

Protect Social Welfare, provide moral improvement (prohibition), create Economic Reform, and foster efficiency

Muckraker

A Journalist who exposed corruption in government and business

Meat inspection act

Set in place by Roosevelt to improve the conditions of meatpacking

Pure food and drug act

Making food and drugs with better ingredients

Conservation movement

millions of acres forest reserves , conserving water and power, 50 wildlife sanctuaries and national parks, and federal land all were brought out of this movement

Panama Canal

A canal built out o Roosevelt’s support of the Great White Fleet; resulted in poor Latin relations

Roosevelt Corollary

Addition to Monroe Doctrine which added police power in western hemisphere and Latin America

Bull Moose Party

A name given to the Progressive Party, formed to support Theodore Roosevelt's candidacy for the presidency in 1912