AH: Unit 1: Review for Test

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Progressivism

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A reform movement that aimed to address social, political, and economic injustices in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Thirteenth Amendment

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The amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery in the United States.

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Fourteenth Amendment

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The amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law.

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Fifteenth Amendment

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The amendment that granted African American men the right to vote.

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Seventeenth Amendment

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The amendment that established the direct election of U.S. Senators by popular vote.

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Homestead Act

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A law that provided 160 acres of free land to settlers in the West if they improved the land by building a dwelling and cultivating crops.

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The Black Codes

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Laws passed in the southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans.

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Freedmen's Bureau

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A government agency established to help former slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War.

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Industrialization

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The process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods.

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Laissez Faire economy

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An economic system in which the government has little or no interference with business and industry.