One Nation...
1860-1918

   
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The Civil War

Reconstruction

 The Last West and the New South The Rise of Industrial America

  • Fort Sumter

  • Executive power

  • Habeas Corpus

  • Insurrection

  • Border States

  • Confederate States of America

  • Jefferson Davis

  • Bull Run

  • Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson

  • Anaconda Plan

  • Robert E. Lee

  • Antietam

  • Fredericksburg

  • Monitor and Merrimac

  • Ulysses S. Grant

  • Shiloh

  • David Farragut

  • Trent Affair

  • Alabama

  • Laird rams

  • Confiscation Acts

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Thirteenth Amendment

  • Gettysburg

  • Vicksburg

  • Sherman’s March to the Sea

  • Election of 1864

  • Appomattox Court House

  • John Wilkes Booth

  • Copperheads

  • Ex Parte Milligan

  • Draft riots

  • Greenbacks

  • Morrill Tariff Act (1861)

  • Homestead Act (1862)

  • Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)

  • Pacific Railway Act (1862)

  • Second American Revolution

 

  • Presidential Reconstruction

  • Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)

  • Wade-Davis Bill (1864)

  • Andrew Johnson

  • Freedman’s Bureau

  • Black Codes

  • Congressional Reconstruction

  • Radical Republicans

  • Charles Sumner

  • Thaddeus Stephens

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

  • Fourteenth Amendment

  • Equal protection of the laws

  • Due process of law

  • Reconstruction Acts (1867)

  • Tenure of Office Act (1867)

  • Impeachment

  • Fifteenth Amendment

  • Civil rights Ace of 1875

  • Scalawags

  • Carpetbaggers

  • Hiram Revels

  • Sharecropping

  • Spoilsmen

  • Patronage

  • Jay Gould

  • Credit Mobilier

  • William (Boss) Tweed; Tweed Ring

  • Thomas Nast

  • Liberal Republicans

  • Horace Greeley

  • Panic of 1873

  • Redeemers

  • Ku Klux Klan

  • Amnesty Act of 1872

  • Rutherford B. Hayes

  • Samuel J. Tilden

  • Compromise of 1877

 

  • Comstock Lode

  • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

  • Cattle Drives

  • Cowboys / Vaqueros

  • Barbed wire

  • Farming frontier

  • Great Plains

  • Oklahoma Territory

  • Frederick Jackson Turner

  • Reservations

  • Indian Wars

  • Sitting Bull

  • Crazy Horse

  • George Custer (Little Big Horn)

  • Chief Joseph

  • Helen Hunt Jackson (A Century of Dishonor)

  • Assimilationists

  • Dawes Severalty Act (1887)

  • Ghost Dance Movement

  • Wounded Knee

  • Indian Reorganization Act (1934)

  • New South

  • Crop lien system

  • George Washington Carver

  • Tuskegee Institute

  • Farmers’ Southern Alliance

  • Colored Farmers’ National Alliance

  • Segregation laws

  • Civil Rights Cases of 1883

  • Plessey v. Ferguson

  • Jim Crow laws (grandfather clause, poll tax, literacy test)

  • Ida B. Wells (Memphis Free Speech)

  • Booker T. Washington

  • National Negro Business League

  • Commercial farming

  • Crop-price deflation

  • National Grange Movement

  • Cooperatives

  • Granger laws

  • Munn v. Illinois

  • Wabash v. Illinois

  • Interstate Commerce Act (1886)

  • Farmers’ alliances

  • National Alliance

  • Ocala Platform

  • Cornelius Vanderbilt

  • New York Central Railroad

  • Trunk line

  • Federal land grants

  • Transcontinental railroads

  • Union and Central Pacific

  • Jay Gould

  • Watered stock

  • Pools

  • Rebates

  • Panic of 1893

  • J. Pierpont Morgan

  • William Vanderbilt

  • Second Industrial Revolution

  • Bessemer process

  • Andrew Carnegie

  • Vertical integration

  • U.S. Steel

  • John D. Rockefeller

  • Standard Oil Trust

  • Horizontal integration

  • Antitrust movement

  • Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)

  • United States v. E.C. Knight

  • Laissez-faire capitalism

  • Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations)

  • Social Darwinism

  • Herbert Spencer

  • Survival of the Fittest

  • Gospel of wealth

  • Protestant work ethic

  • Samuel F. B. Morse

  • Transatlantic cable

  • Alexander Graham Bell

  • Telephone

  • Thomas A. Edison (research laboratory)

  • George Westinghouse

  • Consumer goods

  • Sears, Roebuck; Montgomery Ward

  • Concentration of wealth

  • Horatio Alger

  • Upward mobility

  • White-collar workers

  • Middle class

  • David Ricardo (the iron law of wages)

  • Scab; lockout; blacklist; yellow-dog contract; injunction

  • Railroad strike of 1877

  • National Labor Union

  • Knights of Labor

  • Terence V. Powderly

  • Haymarket bombing (1886)

  • American Federation of Labor

  • Samuel Gompers

  • Homestead strike (1892)

  • Pullman strike (1894)

  • Eugene V. Debs

  • In re Debs

Growth of Cities and American Culture: 1865-1900

National Politics in the
Gilded Age: 1877-1900

The Progressive Era: 1898-1918

 

  • "old" immigrants

  • "new" immigrants

  • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

  • Ellis Island

  • contract labor law

  • American Protective Association

  • urbanization

  • streetcar cities; mass transportation

  • skyscrapers

  • ethnic neighborhoods

  • tenements

  • suburbs

  • Frederick Law Olmsted

  • political machine; party boss

  • Henry George, Progress and Poverty

  • Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward

  • Jane Addams; settlement house

  • Social Gospel movement

  • Walter Rauschenbusch

  • Dwight Moody

  • Salvation Army

  • Mary Baker Eddy

  • National American Women's Suffrage Association

  • Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • Frances E. Willard

  • Antisaloon League

  • Carry A. Nation

  • Anthony Comstock

  • Johns Hopkins University

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Calrence Darrow

  • W.E.B. DuBois

  • Mark Twain

  • Stephen Crane

  • Jack London

  • Winslow Homer

  • Thomas Eakins

  • James McNeill Whistler

  • Mary Cassatt

  • Ashcan School

  • Louis Sullivan

  • Chicago School

  • Daniel Burnham

  • John Philip Sousa

  • Jelly Roll Morton

  • Buddy Bolden

  • jazz

  • Scott Joplin; ragtime

  • Joseph Pulitzer; New York World

  • William Randolph Hearst

  • P.T. Barnum; James A. Bailey

  • Buffalo Bill; Annie Oakley

  • John L. Sullivan

  • spectator, amateur, bachelor sports

  • melting pot

  • cultural diversity

  • Gilded Age

  • solid South

  • Roscoe Conkling

  • Stalwarts

  • Halfbreeds

  • Mugwumps

  • Rutherford B. Hayes

  • James Garfield

  • Chester A. Arthur

  • Thomas Reid

  • James G. Blaine

  • Grover Cleveland

  • "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion"

  • Pendleton Act

  • Greenback Party

  • James B. Weaver

  • Crime of 1873

  • Bland-Allison Act (1878)

  • Benjamin Harrison

  • billion-dollar Congress

  • veterans' pensions

  • McKinley Tariff (1890)

  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)

  • Populist (People's) Party

  • Omaha platform

  • Panic of 1893

  • gold drain

  • Coxey's Army

  • William Harvey, Coin's Financial School

  • William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold"

  • free silver

  • "Gold Bug" Democrats

  • William McKinley

  • Mark Hanna

  • Dingley Tariff (1897)

 

  • Progressive Movement

  • pragmatism; William James

  • Frederick W. Taylor

  • scientific management

  • muckrakers

  • Standard Oil Co.

  • Henry Demarest Lloyd

  • Lincoln Steffans

  • Ida Tarbell

  • Jacob Riis

  • Theodore Dreiser

  • Australian Ballot

  • direct primary

  • Robert LaFollette

  • 17th Amendment

  • initiative, referendum, recall

  • social welfare

  • municipal reform

  • Samuel M. Jones

  • Charles Evans Hughes

  • Hiram Johnson

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • Square Deal

  • Upton Sinclair

  • trust-busting

  • Gifford Pinchot

  • William Howard Taft

  • 16th Amendment

  • Joseph Cannon

  • Eugene V. Debs

  • Socialist Party

  • Bull Moose Party

  • Federal Trade Commission

  • Urban Migration

  • Niagara Movement

  • Booker T. Washington

  • W.E.B. DuBois

  • NAACP

  • National Urban League

  • Carrie Chapman Catt

  • National American Woman Suffrage Assoc.

  • Alice Paul

  • National Woman's Party

  • League of Women Voters

  • anthracite coal miner's strike (1902)

  • Newlands Reclamation Act (1902)

  • Elkins Act (1903)

  • Hepburn Act (1906)

  • Pure Food &
    Drug Act (1906)

  • Meat Inspection
    Act (1906)

  • Payne-Aldridge
    Tariff (1909)

  • Mann-Elkins Act (1910)

  • Underwood Tariff (1913)

  • Federal Reserve
    Act (1914)

  • Clayton Antitrust
    Act (1914)

  • Federal Farm
    Loan Act (1916)

  • 16th Amendment

  • 17th Amendment

  • 18th Amendment

  • 19th Amendment