Chapter 1 Vocabulary S.S.

house built out of thick dirt, grass and grass roots

• log cabin
• straw bale house
• brick house
• sod house

people who came to help poor white, freed blacks, and others who had been hurt by the war

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedmen's Bureau agents
• Southern Democrats
• Union soldiers

a term created by Mark Twain to describe America from after the Civil War to about 1900.

• The Roaring Twenties
• The Gilded Age
• The Progressive Era
• The Reconstruction Era

a name given to African American soldiers by American Indians.

• Freedom Fighters
• Cavalry Troopers
• Iron Soldiers
• Buffalo Soldiers

One of the first and most important labor unions in the world, begun by Samuel Gompers.

• United Mine Workers (UMW)
• National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
• American Federation of Labor (AFL)
• Teamsters Union

America from 1865-1900 where new ideas, machines, and industries helped grow America.

• The Gilded Age

• American Revolution

• Civil War

• The Industrial Revolution

An economic and social system in which trade, industry and capital are privately controlled and operated for a profit.

• Communism
• Industrial Capitalism

• Socialism
• Feudalism

People that controlled the businesses and used their money to create new businesses.

• carpetbaggers

• buffalo soliders

• Industrial capitalist

• robber barons

A time when an economy is healthy and growing rapidly.

• Economic recession
• Market stagnation
• Economic boom

• Financial downturn

To be the only one with items from an industrial category or within a certain area.

• monopoly

• sod house

• robber barons

• soldiers