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44 Cards in this Set
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Sherman's Field Order #15
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40 acres settlement and mule for black families along the South Carolina and Georgia coast
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Frederick Douglass
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A former slave, abolitionist, and supporter of equal rights.
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Andrew Johnson
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17th President, 1865-1869, took over after Lincoln's assassination, congress impeached him for vetoing most of the civil rights bills
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The Radical Reconstruction Agenda
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Charles Sumner
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a radical republican, senator from Massachusetts; the custodian of freedom
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Thaddeus Stevens
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leader of the radical republicans; Pennsylvania house of representative; confiscated land from disloyal planters and divide it among former slaves
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The Grant Administration
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corrupt administration; aided in the reconstruction period; 18th president; 1869 - 1877
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Scalawags
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southern whites who supported the reconstruction
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Redeemers
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southern democrats who sought to oust the republican coalition of freedmen, cartpetbaggers, and scalawags.
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Carpetbaggers
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northerners (or yankees) who moved to the south during the reconstruction era
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The Ku Klux Klan
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founded 1866 in Tennessee, terrorist organization attacking non-whites
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Liberal Republicans
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candidate Horace Greeley; party beleived reconstruction was over in 1870; amnesty with ex-confederate
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the Second Industrial Revolution
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industrial economy, railroads, national market, and the spirit of innovation
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Thomas Edison
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inventor of phograph, lightbulb, motion picture, and generating and distributing electricity
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General Electric
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established by Thomas Edison
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Andrew Carnegie
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vertically integrated the steel company
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Thorstein Veblen
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published the thory of leisure class; upper class spending big money to demonstrate wealth
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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wrote "the significance of the frontier in american history" which influence westward movement
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the Dawes Act of 1887
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1887 broku up land of nearly all tribes into small parcels and distributed to indian families. remaining land would be sold to white purchasers.
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W.G. Sumner
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social darwinist; liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest, or no liberty, equality, survival of the unfittiest
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T.V. Powderly
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head of the knights of labor; founded 1869
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Samuel Gompers
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founder and president of the AFL
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the Omaha Platfrom, 1892
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what the farmers wanted; government to regulate corporations and protect the people
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Populism in general
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the people against the elite
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Chicago in 1886
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killings of strikers and bombing of a policeman which caused police to fire at the crowd in Haymarket Square
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Coxey's Army
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a band of several hundred unemployed men led by Jacob Coxey, who marched to Washington demanding economic relief
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E.V. Debs
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the railroad union leader; then ran for president under the socialist party in 1912; also known for the gospel of Debs
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the 1896 Presidential election
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the first modern presidential campaign because of the amount of money spent by the republicans
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Homer Plessy, light skinned African-American was removed from whties only railroad cart to blacks only cart. Supreme Court ruled Louisiana law does not discriminate as long the are "separate but equal". Segregation was born
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Booker T Washington
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self-help man; promoted to stop fighting slavery and adapt to the situation; asked all African Americans to focus on bettering themselves.
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Anti-Lynching Activities
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no efforts were made to stop lynching activities in its footsteps; several African Americans were murdered by a mob at a rate of 50 per year, from 1883 to 1905
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Anti-Imperialism
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question of republic or empire; liberty tracts; president of the anti-imperialist league was George S Boutwell
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the Spansih-American War
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war declared against Spain; removing spanish from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philipines, and Guam.
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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built a case against the United States in 1899; he led filipino army against the Spain and then againt the United States.
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Progressivism, 1900-1917
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progressive state certain things in life, must be protected, for the general welfare, and for the general public
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Theodore Roosevelt's ideas
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target against the monopolizing markets through regulation and legislation
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Woodrow Wilson's ideas
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represented deep progressive ideas
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the Wisconsin Idea
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nominations through primary elections, taxation of corporate wealth, and state regulation of railroads and public utilities.
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Jane Addams
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founded Hull Houses and invited immigrants to educate and train them to be social
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"Muckraking"
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journalist exposing the social deprivations of society
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Henry Ford
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developed production techniques and marketing that brought within reach of ordinary Americans.
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Immigration, 1880 to 1914
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immigrants from eastern europe and aisa; non skilled immigrants;
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the A.F. of L.
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american federation of labor; led by Samuel Gompers; negotiated conditions with corporations; as opposed demanding and fighting like the knights
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the rise of the advertising industry
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a way of increasing sales by often linking goods with the idea of freedom
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