Key AP US History terms and events, Reconstruction through the present.
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- What was the primary purpose of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
- To divide the South into military districts and require Southern states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment before readmission to the Union.
- Define 'Radical Republicans.'
- Congressional Republicans who wanted a strict Reconstruction with protections for newly freed slaves and punishment for the South.
- What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
- A federal agency created in 1865 to provide education, food, and medical care to freed slaves and poor whites in the South.
- What did the Fifteenth Amendment guarantee?
- That voting rights could not be denied on the basis of race or previous condition of servitude.
- Define 'Carpetbagger.'
- A Northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction, often to pursue political or economic opportunities.
- What was the primary effect of the Compromise of 1877?
- It ended Reconstruction and effectively returned political control of the South to white Democrats, ending federal protection for Black citizens.
- Define 'Jim Crow laws.'
- State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction ended.
- What were 'robber barons'?
- Wealthy businessmen of the Gilded Age, such as Rockefeller and Carnegie, who built industrial empires and dominated their industries.
- What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
- An 1890 federal law that prohibited monopolistic business practices and cartels that restrained trade.
- Define 'Populism' in the context of 1890s American politics.
- A political movement that appealed to farmers and working-class Americans, demanding free silver, regulation of railroads, and progressive taxation.
- What was the main goal of Progressive Era reforms?
- To address social, political, and economic problems caused by industrialization and urbanization through government regulation and intervention.
- What did the Sixteenth Amendment allow Congress to do?
- Collect a federal income tax without apportioning it among the states.
- Define 'Imperialism' as applied to U.S. foreign policy in the 1890s.
- The U.S. policy of extending political, military, or economic influence over other territories and nations.
- What was the Open Door Policy?
- A U.S. policy asserting that all nations should have equal trading rights in China rather than one power dominating the market.
- What was the primary significance of the Panama Canal?
- It provided a strategic shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enhancing U.S. naval power and global trade.