History Quiz 2

Freedmen’s bureau definition

federal agency established in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people through education, relief, labor supervision, and legal protection.

Freedmen’s bureau significance

Agents helped reunite families, legalize slave marriages, and manage labor contracts to protect workers’ rights

freedmen bureau history

helped enslaved people transition from slavery to freedom during the reconstruction era

14th amendment definition

constitutional amendment ratified in 1868 that established national citizenship and required states to provide due process and equal protection of the laws

14th amendment significance

prohibited state gov. from depriving any person of “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”

requires states to treat all people with equal dignity and protection under the law

14th amendment history

ratified following the civil war

corporate capitalism

an economic system increasingly dominated by large corporations that consolidated production, distribution, and markets

corporate capitalism significance

generated severe wealth inequality, labor unrest, and populist movements like the omaha platform

corporate capitalism history

transformed america during the gilded age, leaving millions of working class citizens facing grueling poverty

dawes act defintion

federal law that divided native communal lands into individual allotments as part of a broader policy of assimilation

dawes act significance

abolished communal tribal land ownership and forced the cultural assimilation of native americans

dawes act history

It marked the violent conclusion of the indian wars and birth of modern american corporate expansion

omaha platform definition

the political platform of the people’s party, calling for greater public control of railroads, currency, taxation, and other parts of the economy

omaha platform significance

democracy and corporate monopolies could not coexist

pushed for federal gov. to protect ordinary citizens from corporate exploitation, helped lead to the 16th and 17th amendment for graduated income tax and direct election of U.S. senators

adopted the 8 hour workday and allowing citizens to vote directly on laws

omaha platform history

the populist party dissolved following the election of 1896, however its ideas would be implemented in FDR’s New deal when the great depression hit

plessy v. ferguson

supreme court decision that upheld state-imposed racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal”

plessy v. ferguson significance

rolled back racial equality by allowing southern states to state oppressive segregation codes paired with poll taxes and literacy tests, stripping black citizens of their right to vote

plessy v. ferguson history

two years after plessy, the U. S. won the spanish american war

the supreme court used the same logic in plessy to rule that puerto rico, guam, and the philippines were not ready for full constitutional rights

spanish american war

war between the U.S. and spain that expanded U.S. power overseas and brought former spanish territories under american control or influence

spanish american war significance

transformed the U.S. from an isolated, continental nation into an imperial world power by reshaping global territory and reforming the constitutional rights of millions of people

spanish american war history

directly linked to the economic pressures of the populist movement / labor strikes; the war successfully generated extreme nationalism that further distracted from the struggles of the working class