USH recontruction test

The federal government faced challenges in reconstructing the South after the Civil War, including addressing the status of __________ and reintegrating them into political life.

Defeated states

The Freedmen's Bureau was established to __________ and aid formerly enslaved people in the South.

Educate

After Lincoln's assassination, many Northerners favored the __________, who wanted a transformative Reconstruction plan.

Radical Republicans

Southern Whites established __________ to restrict the lives of formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction.

Black codes

To reenter the Union, former Confederate states had to ratify the __________ and __________ Amendments.

Fourteenth, Fifteenth

Many formerly enslaved people found comfort in their families and independent __________ they established.

Churches

White Southerners blamed their poverty on formerly enslaved people, supporting the violent intimidation of the __________.

Ku Klux Klan

Economic downturns, including the Panic of __________, contributed to the eroding support for Reconstruction.

1873

The __________ of 1877 resulted in the election of republican Rutherford B. Hayes and ended radical Republican control in the South.

Compromise

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments created the constitutional foundation for future advances in __________ rights.

Civil

The national railroad network expanded to nearly __________ miles, facilitating industrial growth in the late nineteenth century.

200,000

Prominent entrepreneurs like John D. __________ and Andrew Carnegie dominated their industries through vertical and horizontal integration.

Rockefeller

The federal government imposed high tariffs and granted public land to __________ companies to encourage economic growth.

Railroad

Social class tensions worsened during the Gilded Age as fortunes flowed to a few prominent __________ families.

Prominent

Workers faced challenges organizing unions due to racial tensions, language barriers, and the use of __________ by business owners.

Strikebreakers

Crowded tenements during the Gilded Age bred disease and crime, allowing party bosses to gain __________.

Power

By 1900, nearly __________ percent of Americans in major cities were foreign-born immigrants.

30

Nativists advocated for restrictive immigration laws, resulting in the passage of the __________ Exclusion Act in 1882.

Chinese

During the Gilded Age, the popularity of sports, such as baseball, emerged alongside vaudeville and __________ shows.

Wild West

The __________ Civil Service Reform Act, passed in 1883, began the professionalization of federal workers.

Pendleton

The Panic of __________ and the ensuing depression fueled the farmers' discontent and participation in politics.

1893

Small farmers' concerns about the money supply contributed to the emergence of the __________ party (Populists).

People's