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Reconstruction |
1865-1877 Created by Lincoln After the north wins the war |
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Radical Republicans |
Want to punish the south for the war They want no local control Reject leaders of the rebellion They don't want to give former slaves citizenship or land or the right to voten |
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Northern conservatives |
Want to forget about the past They want south to maintain local control They don't want slavery but they also don't want to give them the right to vote |
Nationalists/federalists |
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Southern conservatives |
Believe they had the right to rebel Want to return to normal relations with the north South retains local control No slavery but they have limited rights and absolutely no right to vote |
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Southern Unionists |
Deserved reward for loyalty to the north Southern local control No slavery - no push for black rights |
Stayed loyal to north |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Elected by the north in 1864 When Lincoln gave his speech the war was at a stand still Created the reconstruction with his 10% plan |
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10% plan |
Lincoln wants things back to normal 10% of each state of the pre-war voting population from 1860 has to swear an allegiance to the union & the state will go back to normal |
Allegiance |
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John Wilkes Booth |
In a Malitia that planned to kill all people in power. He was assigned to kill Lincoln He successfully assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 15,1865 in Ford's Theater |
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Andrew Johnson |
Lincoln's Vice-president From Tennessee (border state) Self-made man Doesn't like wealthy plantation owners He makes the south personally come and ask him for forgiveness for rebelling Abolishes slavery No rights for free slaves First president to be impeached |
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Sharecropping |
System of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land |
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Tenant farming |
Land owners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management |
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Jim Crow laws |
1880's legalizes segregation between blacks and whites |
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Compromise of 1877 |
Unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed presidential election pulled federal troops out of state politics |
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William Seward |
Negotiated a deal with the Russians and purchase Alaska for $7.2 mil that provided millions of acres of natural resources |
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Transcontinental railroad |
Completed in 1869 Owned my private businesses and corporations to reduce liability |
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Ejidos |
Same thing as sharecropping |
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Homestead act of 1862 |
Offers people free land 160 acres out west they get 5years to improve land, then you get to keep the land but hen also have to pay taxes |
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Morrill Act of 1862 |
Sets aside 140,000,000 acres of federal land to be divided up and sold. Profits go to establish state universities |
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Great Plains environment |
Not good for farming |
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Black codes |
Laws passed in southern states in 1865 to prevent blacks from voting and serving in state militias prohibited interracial marriage regulated contracts between whites and free blacks |
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Gold |
Colorado & Montana |
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Silver |
Nebraska |
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Copper |
Montana
Discovered by Marcus Daly and he creates Anaconda Copper Co. |
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Buffalo/Bison |
1870's-1880's hunting starts to kill off Bison they are almost all gone. This opens the door for cows |
Flores article |
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Long cattle drive |
1880's in western plain states--cattle ranchers needed an easy way to transport their cattle to eastern cities -- Cowboys would round up a lot of cattle and "drive" them to areas near railroad stations-- most drives went from southern Texas up to Kansas |
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Dry farming |
Dig deeper before you plant your seeds |
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Little ice age |
A period of cooling |
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John Wesley Powell |
Water expert who tells gov they need to stop sending people west because of the water situation but the gov doesn't listen |
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Yellowstone/yosemite |
1872 Yellowstone national park. A result of appreciation of the wilderness that was brought about my nationalism |
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Native Americans in the West |
In 1830 Indians were removed to the west. Prior to this they were already there trail of tears |
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Edwin Stanton |
Secretary of war Johnson fired him Gets impeached |
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Fort Laramie treaty 1851 |
Indians guaranteed safe passage for settlers on the Oregon trail in return for promises of an annuity in the amount of fifty thousand dollars for fifty years. The native American nations also allowed roads and forts to be build in their territories |
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The medicine lodge treaty of 1867 |
Assigned reservations in existing Indian territory to various tribes, altogether more than 100,000 competing for survival |
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Reservations |
Clearly defined zone where native Americans could live appointed by officials |
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Indian wars |
Sand creek: Cheyenne indians massacred by Covington Little big horn: Indians last great victory |
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Colonel John chivington |
In 1864 his untrained militia attacked an Indian camp flying a white flag of truce, slaughtering 200 peaceful Indians in the sand creek massacre |
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Indian peace policy |
When president grant entered the White House grant developed a peace policy for the west based on recommendations by Christian reformers He put the reformers in charge. They aimed to destroy native languages, cultures and religions |
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Boarding schools |
The bureau took Indian children away from their families and sent them to boarding schools run by whites, where they believe the young people could be educated to abandon tribal ways |
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"Domestic independent nations" |
What Indians we ruled after the Cherokee nation vs. georgia |
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Battle of Little Bighorn |
When gold was discovered in the black hills Indian reservation in South Dakota whites invaded the Indians lands and drove them on the warpath. The war culminated in June 1876 when colonel George a Custer and all his men were killed by Sioux Indians at the battle of little big horn |
Clusters last stand |
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George Armstrong Custer |
Discovered gold in Black hills South Dakota his seventh cavalry decision was declaimed by the Sioux at the battle of little big horn |
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Tenure of Office Act |
The senate has to approve the presidents request. So if a president has to get approval to hire someone they must get approval to fire someone |
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Henry Dawes |
Senator of Massachusetts |
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Dawes severalty act |
Put in act feb. 8, 1887 regarding the distribution of land to native Americans in Oklahoma named after is sponsor senator Henry Dawes |
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"Checkerboard reservation" |
Checkerboard |
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Nez Perce/ chief Joseph |
A small peaceful tribe. They were able to live in Oregon until he 1870s without disturbance the however they were forced to move to a reservation. On their way there several younger Indians, drunk and angry killed 4 white settlers |
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Wovoka |
And Indian holy man living in Nevada desert who led an Indian religious revival in 1890. He claimed to have received revelations from the great spirit that if his followers adopted certain rituals and lived together in harmony the Indian dead would come back to life and whites would be driven from the land |
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Ghost dance |
Ritual dance by plain Indians to hasten end of the world, dissapearace of the white, revilization of former cultures and hunting grounds and reuniting with departed friends |
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Wounded knee massacre |
A massacre in 1890 that started when Sioux left the reservation in protest because of the death of the sitting bull the us army killed 150 Sioux at wounded knee |
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Closing of the frontier |
1.explorers 2.furtrappers/traders 3.ranchers 4.farmers 5.villages/towns 6.industry>cities |
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Fredrick Jackson turner |
Read the essay |
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Corporations |
In 1840s corporations spreading rapidly, especially textile industry. Ownership moving form families and individuals to many shareholders |
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13th Amendment |
(1865) abolishes slavery |
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Vertical integration |
A single company owns and controls the entire process from raw materials to manga tire and. Sale of the finish profit |
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Horizontal integration |
The combining of many firms engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation |
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Gustavus swift |
In the 1800s he enlarged fresh meat markets through branch slaughterhouses and refrigeration. He monopolized the meat industry |
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Captains of industry |
A business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way. This may have been through increased productivity, expansion of markets, providing more jobs or acts of philanthropy |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Steel |
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J.D. Rockefeller |
Oil |
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J.P. Morgan |
Coal |
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National chain stores |
Influences the American consumer market due to these national networks could sell goods at lower prices |
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Advertising |
Came of age following wartime propaganda of WW1. Advertisers sought to associate products |
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Laborers |
Blue collars |
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14th Amendment |
(1868) Provides citizenship for those born in the US and provides full and equal protection for all citizens |
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Fredrick w. Taylor |
Pioneered scientific management by doing time-motion studies on worker's operations. Determined the simplest, cheapest way of performing each job |
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Stratification |
(Levels) Owners Upper managers Supervisors Workers |
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Deskilling |
Movement away from usefulness of artisans because of the cheaper, and often better quality, factory produced goods |
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Immigration |
People who migrate from a different country |
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Chinese exclusion act 1882 |
Denied and additional Chinese laborer a to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate |
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Knights of labor |
Frdd |
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Anarchists |
An advocate of a political theory favoring the abolition of governments |
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15th Amendment |
(1870) Gives right to vote to all MALE citizens |
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KKK |
Klu Klux Klan Established to kill out the blacks |
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Knights of labor |
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Lynching |
Extra judicial punishment by and informal group (kkk) to intimidate a minority group (blacks) |
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American federation of labor |
Led by Samuel Gompers an alliance of skilled workers in craft unions concentrated on bread and butter issues such as higher wages shorter hours and better working conditions |
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Farmer's Alliance |
Organization that united farmers at the statewide and regional level; policy goals of the organization included more readily available farm credits and federal regulation of the railroads |
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Hatch act of 1939 |
Prevented federal officials from engaging in campaign activities or using federal relief funds for political purposes |
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Interstate commerce act |
Established the federal governments right to overuse railroad activities required railroads to publish their schedule and file them with the gov |
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