17B Exam 1 Reconstruction To Wwii

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Black Codes

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Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.

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Sharecropping

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Sharecropping is a 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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14th Amendment

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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.

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15th Amendment

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The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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Tragedy in NYC caused by lack of regulation - locked exits

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Dawes General Allotment Act

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Dawes General Allotment Act, also called Dawes Severalty Act, (Feb. 8, 1887), U.S. law providing for the distribution ofIndian reservation land among individual tribesmen, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man’s image.

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

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1917 Immigration Act

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The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act and less often as the Asiatic Barred ZoneAct) was the most sweeping immigration act the United States had passed to date. It was the first bill aimed at restricting, as opposed to regulating,immigrants and marked a turn toward nativism.

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Wounded Knee

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Massacre 1890

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Hull House

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Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located in the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House opened its doors to recently arrived European immigrants.

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Roosevelt Corollary

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The Monroe Doctrine had been sought to prevent European intervention in the Western Hemisphere, but now the Roosevelt Corollary justified American intervention throughout the Western Hemisphere.

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Great Railroad Stirke

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States after the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year.

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Pullman Strike

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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strikein the United States on May 11, 1894 and a turning point for US labor law. It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland.

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Battle of the Somme

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It happened, and it sucked - WWI Allied response to Verdun 1916

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Wagner Act

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Also known as the Wagner Act, this bill was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt on July 5, 1935. It established the National Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector.

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Bonus Army March

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They wanted their money NOW - WWI vets

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The Dillingham Commission

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The Commission ended its work in 1911, concluding that immigration from southern and eastern Europe posed a serious threat to American society and culture and should be greatly reduced in the future.

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Johnson Reed Immigration Act

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The law was primarily aimed at further restricting immigration of Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans. In addition, it severely restricted the immigration of Africans and outright banned the immigration of Arabs andAsians.

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NRA

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The National Recovery Administration was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

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The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops.

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Social Security

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Old people have a hard time pulling themselves up by their bootstraps

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Japanese Internment

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It happened, and it sucked

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A. Philip Randolph

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African American labor organizer

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Rosie the Riveter

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Depicted women in the Workforce

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GI Bill

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College, Mortgage - Thepurpose of the act was to help the nation reabsorb millions of veterans returning from overseas who had been fighting in World War II.

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Double V Campaign

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African Americans Victory at home and abroad

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Zoot Suit Riots

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LA - unpatriotic Zoot Suits - sailors and cops beat up Latinos

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Second New Deal

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Sought to Reform

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Lend Lease

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Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to 'any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.'