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| Poll Tax | After Civil war a person needed to pay this in order to vote. |
| Literacy Test | This required voters to read and explain a difficult part of the constitution in order to vote. |
| Grandfather Clause | This stated that if a voter's father or granfather could vote on 1/1/1867 the voter did not have to take a literacy test. |
| Ku Klux Klan | This was formed during the Resconstruction era to keep freedman from exercising their rights |
| 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment | Gave African Americans expanded rights |
| segregation | separating people of different races |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | This upheld segregation by saying that segregation was legal so long as facilities were equal. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed by southern states that segregated public places. |
| Freedman's Bureau | This provided help to freedman after the Civil War. (etc. clothes, education, jobs and schooling) |
| John Wilkes Booth | Assassinated Abraham Lincoln |
| Scalawags | White southerners who supported reconstruction |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved south during Reconstruction |
| Transcontinental Railroad | This connected the Alantic and Pacific coast making commerce faster. |
| Cattle Drives | The herding and moving of cattle over long distants to a railroad. |
| Buffalo | The expansion of railroad had a negative affect on this. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Owned a monopoly in steel. |
| John Rockefeller | Owned a monopoly in oil. |
| Free Enterprise System | Owners decide how much to sell and make with out the government interferring. |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | Ended the formation of monopolies and trusts |
| The Assembly Line | Changed the production of the car so all Americans could afford to buy a car. |
| Children | Many factory owners hire these because they were cheap to employ. |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | A factory fire killing many which lead to many others demmanding change in the work place. |
| Urbanization | The rapid growth of city population. |
| Tenements | Buildings divided into tiny apartments. Often dirty and with out electricity. |
| The New colossus | A poem at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty to welcom immigrants. |
| Ellis Island | A receiving center for immigrants on the East Coast. |
| Angel Island | A receiving center for immigrants on the West Coast. |
| Nativist | Person who wants to limit immigration and preserve America for native - born citizens. |
| Muckrakers | Exposed corrution during the Progressive Era. |
| Jacob Riis | Provide a harsh view of life in the slums through his camera. |
| Upton Sinclair | Wrote the novel The Jungle that told grisly details about the meatpacking industry. |
| TR as a Progressive President | He helped end corruption, conserve natural resources and ended bad trusts. |
| 19th Amendment | Gave women the right to vote. |
| Isolationism | Avoiding involvment in other countries affairs. |
| Imperialism | Policy by which one country takes control of the economic and political affairs of another country or region. |
| Open Door Policy | This ensured that America would have equal trade with other nations in China. |
| Alaska, Japan and Hawaii | Places that America imperialized. |
| Panama Canal | Connected the Alantic and Pacific Oceans in a short water route. |
| Mosquitos | A problem workers faced while building the Panama Canal |
| Causes of World War I | Militarism, Imperialism, Nationalism and Alliances |
| Trench Warfare | A style of fighting during WWI that caused a stalemate. |
| Americans entry to WWI | The Zimmerman Telegraph and Lusitania |
| The Zimmerman Telegraph | Letter from Germany asking Mexico to join WWI and attack America. |
| The Luistania | Passenger ship sunk by German submarines killing American passengers. |
| Armistice | The end of WWI which occured on 11/11/1918 @ 11AM. |
| 14 Points | Woodrow Wilson's plan for Peace after WWI |
| Treaty of Versailles | After WWI this made Germany take all the blame for WWI and also made them pay reparations. |
| League of Nations | Woodrow Wilson's plan for nations to join together in order to solve conflicts. |
