History Midterm Terms

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The 15th Amendment

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Establishes the right to vote for all male citizens regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

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Freedmen's Bureau

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Relief agency for the war-ravaged south created by congress in march 1865. It provided emergency services, built-schools, and managed consficated lands.

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Black Codes

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Laws designed by the ex-confederate sates o sharply limit the civil and economic rights of freedmen and create an eploitable work force.

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K.K.K

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The Ku Klux Klan are groups of armed white vigilantes wage campaigm of violence to suppress freedmen's rights.

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Share cropping

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Is a system whereby southern farmers recieved the right to farm a plot of land in exchange for rent paid in the form of a share ( generally one-third to one-half) of the harvest.

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Dawes Severalty Act

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1887 law tat started the breakup of reservations by offering Native Americans allotments of 160 acres of reservation land to encourage them to become independent farmers

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Homestead Act

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Raised in 1862, it provided 160 acres of free land to settler willing to live on it and improve it for five years; promoted massive wetward migration

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wounded knee massacre

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U.S. soldiers open fire on a group of Sioux Indians on December 29, 1890, killing between two and three hundred

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Tenement

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Multiple family dwellings of four to six stories housing dozens of families that became the most common form of housing for poor city dwellers by the 1860s.

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Robber Barons

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A pejorative name for big business leaders that suggested they grew rich by devious business practices, exploitation of workers, and political manipulation

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Knights of Labor

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A labor organization founded in 1869 that in the 1880s accepted workers of all trades and backgrounds and became the world's largest industrial union

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Strike breakers

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A person who works or is employed in place of others who are on strike, thereby making the strike ineffectual.

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Tammany Hall

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Was the name given to the democratic poltical machine that dominated N.Y.C. poltics from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 through the election of Fiorello LaGuardia in 1934.

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Settlement House Movement

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Institution established in cities beginning in the 1880s and dedicatated to helping the poor by providing a wide range of social and educational services.

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Margaret Sanger

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The founder in 1910s and 1920s of the birth control movement. Sanger overcame the intial hostility of the medical profession and combated laws that in most states prohibited contraception. She later headed the planned parenthood federation.

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Lynching

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Is an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterize informal public exectutions by a mob, often by hanging, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a minority group.

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Ida. B. Wells

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Was an african-american journalist, editor, suffragist, sociologist and an early leader in the civil rights movements. She documented lynching in the U.S. showing that it was often used as away to control or punish blacks who competed with whites, rather than being based in criminal acts by blacks, as was usually claimed by white mobs

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Plessy V. Ferguson

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is a U.S. Supreme Court case from 1896 that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even rewuiring raciaal segregation in public and private institutions such as schools, public transportation, restrooms, and restaurantsC

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Cuban Revolution

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Twas an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July movment and its allies against the government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.

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Trench Warfare

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a type of combat in which oppsing troops fight from trenches facing each other

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Selective Service Act

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This act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.

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League of nations

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an international organization established after world war 1 under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles

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Pandemic of 1919

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The flu pandemic , the deadliest in modern histroy, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide about one third of the planet's population at the time and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims

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19th amendment

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Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.

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Henry Ford

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An american industrial leader of the ninteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ford perfercted the assembly line, technique of mass production, by which the model T automobile and its successors were made available " for the multitude."

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Al Capone

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United States gangster who terrorized chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion

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Harlem Renaissance

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An african-american cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s centered in Harlem, that celebrated black traditions, the black voice, and black ways of life

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Flappers

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were a 'new breed' of young western women in the 1920s who were skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

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Herbert Hoover

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the 31st President of the United States, in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt

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The 15th amendment, Freedmens Bureau, Black codes, KKK, and sharecropping are terms that belong to what era?

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Reconstruction

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Dawes Act, Homestead Acts, and wounded knee are terms that belong to what era?

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Westward expansion

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Tenement, Robber Barons, Knights of Labor, Strikebreakers, Tammany hall, Settlement House movement, Margaret Sanger, Lynching, Ida B. Wells, and Plessy v. Ferguson are terms that belong to what era

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Progressive

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Trench Warfare, Selective Service Act, League of Nations, and Pandemic of 1919 are terms that belong to what era?

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World War One

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19th amendment, Henry Ford, Al Capone, Harlem Renaissance, Flappers, and Herbert Hoover are terms that belong to what era?

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Twenties