Terms and Definitions: American History, Labor Movements, and Political Developments, Quizzes of United States History

Download Terms and Definitions: American History, Labor Movements, and Political Developments and more Quizzes United States History in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 14th Ammd DEFINITION 1 Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection TERM 2 15th Ammd DEFINITION 2 right to vote to African American men TERM 3 Lost Cause DEFINITION 3 The Lost Cause is the name commonly given to a literary and intellectual movement that sought to reconcile the traditional white society of the Southern United States to the defeat of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War of 1861-1865. Those who contributed to the movement tended to portray the Confederacy's cause as noble and most of the Confederacy's leaders as exemplars of old-fashioned chivalry, defeated by the Union armies not through superior military skill, but by overwhelming force. TERM 4 Honest graft DEFINITION 4 Taking advantage of the situation TERM 5 Gospel of Wealth DEFINITION 5 "Wealth", more commonly known as "The Gospel of Wealth", is an essay written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that described the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. TERM 6 Knights of Labor DEFINITION 6 The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, best known simply as the Knights of Labor (K of L), was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. TERM 7 Homestead strike DEFINITION 7 The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. It was one of the most serious disputes in US labor history. TERM 8 Committee on Public Information DEFINITION 8 The Committee on Public Information, also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. TERM 9 Great Migration DEFINITION 9 The Oregon Trail is a historic east-west wagon route that was the oldest of the northern commercial and emigrant trails because of its early developmental role in the highly profitable overland fur trade in the early nineteenth-century. TERM 10 Scopes Trial DEFINITION 10 teaching of evolution in a school in Tenessee