Modern US History Exam 1

The end of slavery

Emancipation ended slavery through the Civil War and the 13th Amendment in 1865

The 1919 Steel Strike

A major workers' strike over low wages and poor working conditions

Scalawags

White Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party.

The end of Reconstruction

The end of federal Reconstruction in 1877

Federal anti-lynching laws

Proposed laws to make lynching a federal crime

James Z. George

Mississippi politician and U.S. senator involved in post-Reconstruction politics and white Democratic control.

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896 Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody

Frontier scout and showman whose Wild West show shaped popular ideas about the American West and Native Americans.

Wounded Knee Massacre

1890 massacre in South Dakota where the U.S. Army killed many Lakota people.

Dawes Act

1887 law that divided tribal lands into individual allotments to assimilate Native Americans and reduce tribal land ownership.

Urbanization's effect on the economy

Growing cities provided workers and consumers for industries but also created overcrowding and poor living conditions.

Imperialism

The expansion of a country's power and influence over other territories and peoples.

Dumbbell Building

New York City tenement building designed with narrow air shafts

The name "Spanish Flu"

Misleading name for the 1918 influenza pandemic

Carrollton

Mississippi violence