USH Terms 1

big business

Govt was unwilling to stop the rise of ___ ______

amendments

Supreme court rulings contradicted ______: ‘ separate but equal (Jim Crow segregation) states decided freedoms, do not protect from violence by private individuals.

Confederacy

Civil War: the ________ surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse.

Black codes

________ were laws passed in order to criminalize activities that would make it easy to imprison African Americans which would pass a loophole in the 13th Amendment and effectively force African Americans back into servitude.

Declaration of independence

________- after the revolutionary war, declared the US a independent country.

Horizontal integration

________- a corporate expansion strategy that involves joining together as many firms from the same industry as possible.

Robber barons captains of industry

________- extremely wealthy industry owners who used ruthless /unethical means to acquire wealth (horizontal integration)

Articles of confederation

________: the original constitution of the 13 colonies, ineffective.