American History 2018

  • Muckrakers

    Muckrakers

    Someone who publishes misdeeds.
  • Revolutionary War

    Revolutionary War

    The revolutionary war was from 1775 to 1783. The revolutionary had because of confrontation between British troops and local militia at Lexington and Concord, massuchets
  • 3 Branches Of Government

    3 Branches Of Government

    Executive- Enforces laws
    Legislative- Makes the laws
    Judicial- interprets the laws
  • Legislative

    Legislative

    The branch of government that makes the laws
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    Abloshed slavery
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Equal rights for citizens
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    Universal male suffrage
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    Graduated income tax
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    Direct election of sentators
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    Womens Suffrage
  • Seven Factors Of Americas Growth

    Seven Factors Of Americas Growth

    Natural Resources,Capital, Labor Supply, Transportation, Consumers, Technology, Government Cooperation.
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny

    Settlers were destined to expand across North America
  • Motivation To Settle To The West

    Motivation To Settle To The West

    They wanted to make a better living
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    One of America's richiest and most powerful men.
  • John D. Rockefeller

    John D. Rockefeller

    Business man, he formed standard oil.
  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush

    Rapid movement of a people trying to find newly discovered goldfield.
  • Urbanization

    Urbanization

    The process of making an area more urban.
    women found little futures on farms.
    farms were becoming larger and more mehcanized.
  • Gilded Age

    Gilded Age

    The Era after Reconstruction
  • Period: to

    Civil War

    Issue slavery
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    Several laws in the united states which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain
  • 3 Reconstruction Plans

    3 Reconstruction Plans

    Lincoln required 10% of Confederate states residents to take a loyalty oath before the state could rejoin the union.
    Johnson- Required no loyalty oath before a Confederate state could rejoin the union.
    Radical Replubican- Supported land re-distribution in the south.
  • Wade- Davis Bill

    Wade- Davis Bill

    Congresses response to lincolns plan
  • Pocket Veto

    Pocket Veto

    An indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legaslative session
  • Black Codes

    Black Codes

    Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the civil war.
  • Freedmen's Bureau

    Freedmen's Bureau

    An Agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.
  • 3 Reconstruction Amendments

    3 Reconstruction Amendments

    13th Amendment- Abolished Slavery.
    14th Amendment- defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other people.
    15th Amendment- The right of citizens of the united states or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  • Period: to

    Reconstruction

    Rebuilding the trust and economy.
  • Civil Rights Bill

    Civil Rights Bill

    Ended Segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.
  • The Reconstruction Act of 1867

    The Reconstruction Act of 1867

    laid out the process for readmitting southern states into the union.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad

    To travel for the first time in the U.S. history
  • Monopoly

    Monopoly

    Characterized by a lack of competition, which can mean higher prices and inferior products.
  • Compromise Of 1877

    Compromise Of 1877

    The compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely dsuputed 1876 U.S.
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair

    An American writer who wrote nearly 100 books.
  • Old Immigrants

    Old Immigrants

    More than one-third came from Southern and Eastern Europe.
  • New Immigrants

    New Immigrants

    Almost all came from Northern and Western Europe.
    They became targets of discrimination.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly it's monopolistic practices.
  • Hull House

    Hull House

    Settlement house in Chicago founded by Jane Addams.
  • Closing Of The Frontier

    Closing Of The Frontier

    Census had shown that a frontier line, a point beyond the population density was less than two people per square mile, didn't exsist
  • Exploited Workers

    Exploited Workers

    Low pay
    Long hours
    Poor and Unsafe working conditions
    Child Labor
  • Anti-Trust Act

    Anti-Trust Act

    Outlawed Monopolistic busienss practices.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed monopolistic buisness practices.
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson was a landmark decision of the U.S. supreme court issued in 1896
  • Grandfather Clause

    Grandfather Clause

    A grandfather clause is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply.
  • Progressive Presidents

    Progressive Presidents

    Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Woodrow Wilson.
  • The Food And Drug Administration

    The Food And Drug Administration

    A federal agency of the United States Department of health and human services.
  • The Meat Inspection Act

    The Meat Inspection Act

    Is an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food.
  • Square Deal

    Square Deal

    A Fair Bargain Or Treatment
  • Bull Moose Party

    Bull Moose Party

    Teddy Roosevelt a former Republican created the bull moose party after losing an election against Democrat William Howard Taft.
  • Segregation

    Segregation

    The separation of people into radical and other ethnic groups in daily life.
  • Civil Service Act

    Civil Service Act

    An act to reform the civil service laws.
  • My Birth Date

    My Birth Date

    I was born 3/23/04, I didn't really know anything about my birthing stage (starts laughing)
  • My Best Friend Mikey Died

    My Best Friend Mikey Died

    Mikey was my dog, he was my best friend. he loved me and I loved him, we were both attached to each other. I'll always miss him.