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Laissez-faire capitalism

Monopolies

Reconstruction

13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S constitution

Compromise of 1877

Jim Crow

Sharecropping

Lynching

Ida B. Wells

Dawes Act

Indian boarding schools

Americanization /assimilation

American federation of labor

Robber barons/ captains of industry

Gilded age

New immigrants

Social darwinism

populism/people’s party annexation of Philippines

Big stick diplomacy

Progressivism/ progressive era

Jane Adams

Settlement houses

Protective labor legislation

Francis Perkins

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Theodore Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

World war I

League of nations

Third industrial system

Heterosocial culture/ the roaring twenties

The Harlem Renaissance

The National Association for the Advancement go Colored people

The New Deal

Congress of industrial; l Organizations



You will find the answers key int these two books

1) BETWEEN THE WORLD+ME

By COATES

2)EXPLORING AMERICAN

HISTORIES,VOL.2

By HEWITT

I will not expect the answer Fromm google please! or different method than the books.

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Laissez Faire Capitalism
This is a type of leadership that is characterized by the government not taking an active role in
regulating the economy. The word Laissez-faire is actually French meaning “let go” this suggests
the government leaving alone the economic activities alone in order to reduce any inefficiencies
and inconveniences that may have arisen from their interference in economic activities.
Monopolies
This is businesses that are sole producers or providers of a good or a service due to various
reasons some of which include restrictive practices or ownership of a critical source of raw
materials. This makes such firms have a competitive edge against those that try to enter the same
industry.
Reconstruction
It applies to the endeavored change of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877, as
coordinated by Congress. this finished the remainders of Confederate patriotism and of slavery
making the Freedmen natives with social rights clearly ensured by three new Constitutional
corrections.
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
This is also referred to as the civil war amendments, they were designed to bring slavery to an
end and cause equality to the recently freed slaves. The 13th amendment officially ended slavery
and it continues to bar slavery of any kind in United States, the 14th amendment proclaims that

Student 2

all persons that are born or naturalized in the United States of America are American citizens
despite the color of their skins and lastly the 15th amendment to the United States of America
constitution bars each government in the country from denying a citizen the right to participate in
voting based o their color, race or recent condition of slavery.
Compromise of 1877
This referrers to a compromise that resolved a disputed presidential election in 1876 between
Samuel Tilden Democratic candidate and Rutherford B. Hayes Republican candidate, where the
Democrats came together and agreed that they would let Rutherford B. Hayes become President
and in exchange Rutherford B. Hayes will cause the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
which will give home rule to Louisiana and South Carolina.
Jim Crow
It is the racial caste framework that was in operated primarily in the Southern states and border
states, from 1877 to mid-1960s. It was more than just a series of anti-black laws as it had become
a part of daily life as African Americans endured second-class citizenship as the system tried to
legitimize anti-black racism.
Sharecropping
this was an agricultural labor framework that developed Georgia and the rest of the South after
the civil war in 1865 immediately after the Reconstruction and proceeded until the mid-twentieth
century, this framework ensured laborer’s who had no land of their own worked on plots owned
by others and on harvesting the crops the landowners would pay the workers a share of the crops.
Lynching
This refers to an extrajudicial murder as a punishment by an informal group characterized by a
mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, in united states the history late 19th century there
grew a lot of racial tension, especially in the South as people started blaming their financial
issues on the released slaves.
Ida B. Wells

Student 3

She was an African American journalist that led an antilynching crusade in the United States as
she documented lynching in the united states and also was on of the founders of the National
Association for the Coloured People(NAACP).
Dawes
Alos termed as the General allotment act, it authorized the president of the United States of
America to carry out a survey of the American Indian tribal lands and subdivide it into
allotments for individual Indians as way of trying to assimilate the Native American Indians into
mainstream United States society by taking away their social traditions and culture as only
Native American Indians who took the allotments were granted US citizenship.
Indian boarding schools
This was schools founded by the federal government in the 1870s when the united states were
still at war with the Indians, An Army officer, Richard Pratt founded one of this schools as the
government sought to transform the native Indian children by sending them to off-reservation
schools where their culture would die.
Americanization /assimilation
This is the way in which an immigrant to the United States of America converts into a person
who shares American beliefs, convictions, and traditions...


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