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43 Cards in this Set
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What did American farmers both black and white use from the government?
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Land, got loans for equipment and seeds
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Land merchants cook the books and end up causing farmers what? How?
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farmers debt by charging to much for land
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A group of young confederates in 1866 created what group of terrorists/racists? What did this group begin to deal with?
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KKK and they dealt with land payments
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what did over production cause?
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Inflation
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What happened in the Cole Fax Massacre and who led these fights in a campaign of terror?
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100 African Americans where killed in cold blood by KKK
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What did the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 say?
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infringement of a political or civil right was a federal crime
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Democrats successfully keep republicans to vote in south leading to a democratic southern up rise called what?
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Democratic redemption
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Who won the 1876 presidential election and what did he do with troops in the south?
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Hayes, sent them to take care of railroad riots.
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How did Hayes win the election?
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Electoral College
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When Hayes pulled the troops out of south what did it end and what was reinstated?
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Ended reconstruction, Black codes reinstated
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Why did farmers begin to produce only one crop?
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Higher demand for cash to use railroad
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What is a bonanza?
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money making opportunity
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Who received better deals on the railroads the new corporate farms or the older individual farms?
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corporate farms
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farmers begin to produce only one crop,bonanzas,new corporate farms, all are causes for what?
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Farm Crisis
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Where was National Farmers Alliance set up and what does it say?
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Texas, pushed for state owner ship of railroads, graduated income tax, free and unlimited coinage of silver
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Because there were so many farmers struggling in this period of time it led to what?
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farmers voting for people getting into political parties
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Jacob Coxey went to DC to complain about what?
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poor wages, unemployment
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Vertical Integration, give example
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company tries to control all steps of production process, Henry Ford
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Horizontal Integration, give example
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linking companies together that produce the same product, John D. Rockefeller
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Who created Scientific Management and what is it?
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Fredrick Winslow Taylor managers should make all important decisions and started time and motion studies to examine how products are created to find best/fastest way to create them
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Men only made 50%-60% of what they needed to survive with their families causing what?
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women and children to join work force
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What were some of the negatives about women and children in work force?
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bad working conditions and low pay
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Give some facts about Albert Parsons
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radical republican fights for ex slave rights, married ex slave, Lucy, had to move to Chicago because of Souths laws on interracial marriage, joins union
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What union was started secretively and end up becoming more active, and what did they argue. Who did they elect as the head of union?
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Knights of Labor, argued that Republic of U.S. was being undermined by people and wages/labor were not good, Terrance Powdery
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What did Knights of Labor do about Chinese immigration? Why?
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they try and successfully stop it, because they worked for much cheaper then other Americans and stole "jobs"
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When Knights of labor began to boycott certain companies what did the companies do? What were they for?
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Hired Pinkerton Detective Agencies to beat up striking workers to help as incentive to stop striking
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What was the protest about and occurred at the protest in Haymarket Square?
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protesting about strikers being beat up/killed in Chicago and working conditions, police force shows up and bomb goes off causing police to open fire
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8 of the group leaders were arrested and sentenced jail time or death, who was among these 8 arrested?
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Albert Parsons and Louis Lingg who commits suicide
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What did the previous events mention cause dealing with the Knights of Labor? What was then created after KOL?
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began to fall apart, American Federation of Labor
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What was the difference between the American Federation of Labor and Knights of Labor
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American Federation of Labor is organized of only skilled white workers unlike KOL who used all types of workers except Chinese.
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What was the outcome of the Spanish-American War?
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Americans win loose 379 in war 5000 to yellow fever, in return we receive Guam, Puerto Rico, and Philippine Islands
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Explain what first happened once we got the Philippine Islands from Spain...
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At first we fought in Philippine War against Spain with the Philippinos to once again gain control of islands, and then
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Now explain what happened next after defeating Spain in Philippine War...
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After gaining control again in islands Philippines fight us in the Philippino Insurrection to try and gain control of their own islands.(bloody war and longer)
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What was the Americans reasons for obtaining Guam, Puerto Rico, and Philippine Islands
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to spread democratic institutions across of world
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Explain the gender issue that brings about men and there supposed Nevresthenia disease.
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men become nervous becasue of women independence becoming more prone
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What happens when U.S. begin to become Industrial super power?
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begin to produce more than we can consume
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What happened to the U.S. battleship, the Maine?
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US sent it to Cuba randomly blows up in Cuban port, giving Americans to declare war an Spanish
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What were some reasons America to declare war on Spain in Cuba? (Besides the Maine)
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They controlled Cuba and had concentration camps
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When the US win the war in Cuba what do we help them do and what does it state?
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Help create a constitution, Platt Amendment, and states we have a US Navy base in Cuba *(Guantanamo Bay)
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Who was allied with us in the Spanish American War and then against us in the Philippino Insurrection?
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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What group of people published US troops letters about the Philippine Insurrection?
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Anti-Imperialist League
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Monroe Doctrine
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Europeans to stay out of the Western Hemisphere
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Central and South America must stay out of Western hemisphere.
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