Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
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15th Amendment
right to vote no matter race or color
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16th Amendment
Allows the federal government to collect income tax
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17th Amendment
Direct election of senators
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18th Amendment
Prohibition
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19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote
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21st Amendment
ended prohibition
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Reconstruction
rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
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carpet baggers
Northerners who went South for personal power and profit
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Scalawags
Southern whites who supported Republican policy through reconstruction
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KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups
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Black Codes
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
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Freedmen's Bureau
government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
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Gilded Age
Late 1800s to Early 1900s - time of large increase in wealth caused by industrialization
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Robber Barons
People who'd built fortunes by swindling investors and taxpayers, and bribing officials
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Captians of Industry
philantropists
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
A railroad owner .
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Andrew Carnegie
Built a steel mill empire; US STEEL
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John D. Rockefeller
Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history
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J.P. Morgan
Banker who buys out Carnegie Steel and renames it to U.S. Steel.
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Horizontal Integration
Type of monopoly where a company buys out all of its competition. Ex. Rockefeller
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Vertical Integration
Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution
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Haymarket Riot
1886 labor-related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
a factory fire that killed 146 workers trapped in the building; led to new safety standard laws
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political machine
a party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage
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Ellis Island
an immigration port on the east coast
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Angel Island
immigration port on the west coast
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Salad Bowl
different cultures living among another
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Melting Pot
the mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples
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Chinese Exclusion Act
1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
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Gentelmens Agreement
Agreement that limited Japanese emigration to U.S.
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Nativism
belief that Native Born Americans were superior to immigrants
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Laissez-faire
Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy.
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Tenements
Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived
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Capitalism
citizens, not governments, own and run companies
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Socialism
economic and political system where the workers or the government own the buildings and tools that make goods and services like farms and factories
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Samuel Gompers
president of the American Federation of Labor
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Pendleton Act
 that Tfederal government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that government employees be selected through competitive exams.
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Muckraker
 a person who exposed the problems of the Gilded Age
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Ida Tarbell
 attacked Rockefeller’s oil industry by writing about the corruption and bad business practices of the monopoly
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Thomas Nast
 attacked Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall by using political cartoons to expose the corruption
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Jacob A. Riis
 expose the problems with urbanization and poor living conditions in the city
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Jane AddamsÂ
person helped house the poor and needy immigrants in Settlement Houses and helped them find employment
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Booker T. Washington
* Equal rights through economics * Secretly fought against voter discrimination and segregation * Prefered by White Americans as the key to racial peace * Importance of Vocational Education
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W.E.B DuBois
* Desired complete equality * Advocated for liberal arts education over vocational * Believed in publicly attacking discrimination through protests, lawsuits, editorials
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DeJure Segregation
Segregation written into law
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DeFacto Segregation
Segregation based on how cultural differences
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Plessy vs Ferguson
Court case held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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NAACP founders
 W.E.B DuBois and Ida B Wells
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Poll Tax
barrier to voting to prevent African Americans and the poor from voting
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Jim Crow Laws
a set of laws in the South established after Reconstruction ended to keep segregation in place
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Teddy Roosevelt
 he became a "trust buster"; he used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve trusts that restrained interstate and foreign trade
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Howard Taft
angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting the Payne-Aldrich Tariff (increased tax rates)
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Woodrow Wilson
created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission
* Child labor laws, 8 hour work days * African-Americans civil rights weren’t a priority * Saw woman’s suffrage movement as a distraction to the war effort
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Four Motivations for US Imperialism
1.  Global Competiton 2.  Military Strength 3.  The desire for new Markets 4.  Cultural SuperiorityÂ
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Social Darwinism
the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better.
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 three causes of the Spanish American War
1. Yellow journalism 2. To protect U.S. business interests in Cuba. 3. The Mysterious sinking of the USS Maine
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Buffalo soldiers
 an all Black regiment in the Spanish American War
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Emilio Anguinaldo
Filippino rebel leader that fought against Spanish rule and later U.S. rule.
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Yellow Journalism
Style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts
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Valeriano Weyler
Governor-General of the Philippines
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Jose Marti
set up concentration camps in cuba
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Teller Amendment
amendment to this declaration which declared that when the United States had overthrown Spanish rule of Cuba it would give the Cubans their freedom
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Platt Amendment
reaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention