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49 Cards in this Set
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Industrialization years |
1760 to 1820 |
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Effects of Industrialization |
-Rise of modern day corporations -Monopolies -Low wages, harsh working conditions and strikes -Pollution -Class conflict |
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Temperance Movement |
Manly in middle class; no alcohol no sex |
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Railroad Strike of 1877 |
First national strike, caused by reduction of wages and hours, lasted 45 days until troops beat up strikers to break strike |
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Scabs |
Replacement workers sent in during a strike |
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George Pullman |
Rich from making railroad cars. Founded Pullman Illinois, a company town. |
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Company Town |
Boss controls rent, wages, hours, prices at store, and sometimes even currency. |
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Pullman Strike |
1894 Pullman cuts wages during recession but doesn't lower prices. American Railway Union calls for national strike to support. 250,000 workers strike ends in troops beating |
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Ugene Debs |
Sent to jail for organizing Pullman Strike |
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Extreme polarization of wealth |
Top 1% owns 51% of wealth late 1800s Gilded Age |
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Gospel of Wealth |
Written by Andrew Carnegie. States don't need regulations because the ones that have risen will do the write thing and distribute the money how they see fit. |
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Social Darwinism |
The strong will conquer the weak. Thrival of the fittest |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Immigrant from Scottland. Worked his way up from the bottom of the railroad industry. |
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First women's rights convention |
1848 Seneca falls N.Y. Cause weren't allowed in unions and were paid half of men's salary |
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Women of color were usually stuck doing what type of work? |
Agricultural and domestic |
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Children in work force |
Had 3X as many injuries as adults |
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Dime Novels |
How most Americans learned about Native Americans. Not Christians were heathens |
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Dawes Act 1887 |
Henry Dawes. Speed up assimilation, divided reservations into family farms with some plots being unfarmable. Surplus land sold |
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Wavoka and The Ghost Dance |
Piute prophet said they should dance for 5 days and 4 nights every six weeks. White people will vanish, dead Native Americans and game buffalo will return. No more disease. |
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Lakota Sioux |
Sends delegation to Wavoka to learn ghost dance. Evolve their dance to be around tree and have "bullet proof" ghost shirts. |
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Wounded Knee Massacre |
Army is sent when Lakota Sioux refuse to stop ghost dance. 350 Lakota Sioux on way to Pine Ridge camping at Wounded Knee Creek when army kills 150 to 250. Caused the disappearance of Ghost dance |
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How did Wounded Knee escalate? |
Yellowbird told Natives not to be disarmed that they are wearing bullet proof shirts. Army tries to disarm him as he throws dirt at them and flails around. A gun goes off which gets the army's hotchkiss guns to start firing. |
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What is called the "Last Indian Battle"? |
Wounded Knee Massacre |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 |
All rights of citizens given to Mexican Americans. Ended Maexican American War |
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Mongrels |
Mexican Americans |
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Diseños |
Land maps made by Mexican government as proof of ownership |
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Las Gorras Blancas |
The White Hats founded by Herrera brothers for vigilante justice on people who take Mexican Americans land. Burn hay, cut fences, and scattered livestock |
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Pablo Herrera |
One of Las Gorras Blancas. Gunned down by sheriff for no reason and without punishment |
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13th Ammendment |
Ended slavery |
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14th Ammendment |
Granted citizenship |
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15th Ammendment |
Right to vote, men only |
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Reconstruction Ammendments |
13, 14, 15 |
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What is the largest flaw of reconstruction? |
Didn't grant any land to African Americans |
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Sharecropping |
Rent land. Landlord determines what you grow and about half the money goes to land lord. Creates a cycle of debt. |
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Lawrence Nelson |
Teenager who was lynched with his mom |
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What percentage of African Americans lived in southern end of reconstruction? |
90% |
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Disenfranchisement |
Poll tax, literacy tests, physical intimidation, and grandfather clause |
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When was the end of reconstruction? |
1877 |
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Rebecca Latimer said to |
Lynch a thousand a week to protect womens dearest possession |
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One drop rule |
One black ancestor means you are black |
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White man's burden |
The burden on the white man to save all other races and show the the "righteous path" |
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Battle of San Juan Hill |
African American Buffalo Soldiers did most of work but Roosevelt took all the credit. |
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Immigration Act of 1903 |
Outlawed anarchists, beggars, pimps and epileptics |
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Immigration Act of 1907 |
Outlawed idiots, insane, paupers and polygamists |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
1882 First time immigration was restricted based on race. |
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Tacoma Method |
Gave Chinese til a certain day to get out then rounded those left up and put them on a train |
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Gentleman's Agreement 1907 |
Japan agreed to not let people go to U.S. instead of having a Japanese Exclusion Act |
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U.S. Vs Wong Kim Ark |
Born in U.S. went to visit family in China, upon return they tried to say he wasn't allowed because he is Chinese. Case went all the way to supreme court and he won |
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Geary Act |
Extended Chinese Exclusion Act and required that they carry papers at all times or face deportation |