Apush Final Flashcards

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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

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Lincoln's Reconstruction plan
1. Full presidential pardons granted to southerners ho took oath of alliegence to the Union& accepted emancipation of slaves

2. A state gov. could be reestablished when 10% of voters took loyalty oath

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Thaddeus Stevens

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Leading radical rep. of the South, hoped to secure black civil rights through extended military occupation in the south

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15th Amendment

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Right to vote for blacks

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Thomas Nast

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New York times cartoonist, exposed "Boss Tweed"

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Force Acts

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gave power to federal authorities to stop Ku Klux Klan Violence

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The Purpose of Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

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Encourage rapid readmission of ex- confederate states into the Union

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Black Codes were passed in order to

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Control movement and provide a stable workforce for plantations

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Freedmen's Bureau didn't provide:

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Protection from sharecropping agreements

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What was not provided for African Americans after reconstruction?

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Distribution of confiscated Cofederate farmlands

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Why was President Andrew Johnson Impeached?

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He removed a radical republican from his cabinet

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An analysis of the election of 1868 best supports the conclusion that

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Republic Victory depended on the African American Vote

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Republican Reconstruction gov. in the South did not accomplish

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Reducing waste and corruption in local and state governments

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By the end of Reconstruction, most Southern Blacks

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Worked on farms as renters and sharecroppers

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The "redeemers" in the South Supported

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States rights and white supremacy

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Congressional Reconstruction ended in 1877 because

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It was part of a compromise to resolve the disputed election of 1876

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Helen Hunt Jackson; A Century of Dishonor

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book describing plight of Indidans, encouraged assimilation theory

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George Washington Carver

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African American farmer, proposed the growing of peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans

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Ida B. Wells

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Editor of the memphis FREE SPEECH, devoted efforts to campaigning against lynching and Jim Crow Laws

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Interstate Commerce Act

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first attempt at regulating railroads. Required "reasonable and just" rates and set up the ICC

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Ocala Platform

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1. direct election of Senators
2. Low tariff rates
3. graduated income tax
4. new banking system regulated by fed. gov.

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What Characterized agriculture in BOTH the West and the South between 1870-1900

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Increased Production

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The outbreak of Indian wars wasn't caused by

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The division of tribal lands into individual farms for tribal members

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The goals of the assimilationists were most in conflict with

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Terms of the Indian Reorganization act of 1934

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The chief cause of farm protest in the late 19th century was

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Closing of the Open Range

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The Chinese Exclusion Act is most closely associated with

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Hostility to foreigners in Western States

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According to the Turner thesis, the frontier didn't encourage

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Growth of Class Divisions

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After the Granger laws were overturned, Congress tried to provide relief through the

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Interstate Commerce Act

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The Main result of the Crop lien system was

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A cycle of debt for tenant farmers

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The New South Movement didn't promote

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Social integration of the races

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Supreme Court upheld "Seperate but equal" in which case?

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Andrew Carnegie

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Owner of the Carnegie steel company, became US Steel

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Vertical Integration

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Process by which a company controls every stage of the industrial process

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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Act that prohibited any "contract, combination, in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce"

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Samuel F. B. Morse

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Inventor of the first functional telegraph

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Eugene Debbs

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Railroad union leader who was thrown in jail for refusing to abandon the Pullman Strike

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During the Railroad expansion from 1860 to 1900, what DIDN'T happen?

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No laws were passed to regulate Railroads

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In the 19th Century, Railroads formed pools in order to

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Fix prices and divide business for greater profit

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What was considered a proper function of the government in the late 19th century

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Protection of workers from Unfair Labor Practices

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The late 19th Century US economy was not characterized by

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Acceptance of Unions and Collective Bargaining

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The Decisions of the Supreme Court in the late 19th Century often favored whom

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corporations

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Social Darwinists would most Likely support What?

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nonregulation of business

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The Concept of the gospel of wealth is not reflected in which statement?

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Money should be distributed to the poor and the homeless

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Which describes a trend in American society in the 1880s and 1890s?

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The Workplace became more tightly organized and structured

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The Most effective and enduring labor union in the post Civil War era

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focused on goals like higher wages and shorter hours for skilled workers

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What is not true of the American Labor movement in the late 19th century

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Labor's rights were passed by laws of Congress

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Jane Addams

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Founder of the Most famous settlement house, Hull House in Chicago.

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Francis Willard

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led the Women's Christian Temperance Union, which advocated total abstinence from alchohol

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Clarence Darrow

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famous lawyer who argued that criminal behavior could be caused by a person's environment of poverty

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American Protective Association

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nativist society that was openly prejudiced against Roman Catholics

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Henry George's Progress and Poverty

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criticized the lessaiz faire economy, proposed a single tax on land as the solution to poverty.

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Roscoe Conkling

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leader of the stalwarts, became a powerful leader by dictating lucrative jobs

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Mugwumps

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Republicans who did not play the party game

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Bland-Alison Act

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act that allowed a limited coinage of silver at standard silver to gold ratio of 16-1

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Pendleton Act

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Act that set up the Civil Service Commission, and created the examination system.

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Sherman Silver Purchase Act

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Act that increased the coinage of silver, but not enough to satisfy farmers

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Josiah Strong "Our Country: It's possible future and Present Crisis"

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Reverand missionary, felt Anglo Saxon Whites were fittest to survive and should spread their benefits to the less fortunate

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Plat Amendment

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The US will withdraw from Cuba if Cuba agrees to certain terms making Cuba a US protectorate

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Roosevelt Corollary

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The U.S. will intervene in Latin American affairs when necessary

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Dollar Diplomacy

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Taft's foreign policy, focused on trade and enterprise

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Pancho Villa

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led raids across the Mexican border and murdered people in TX and NM

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Muckrakers

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Writers specializing in underhanded political trash

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17th Amendment

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Direct election of senators

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Hepburn Act

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Gave the ICC the power to fix "just and reasonable" RR rates

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Gifford Pinchot

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Chief of the Forest Service, fired by Taft after he criticized his secretary of the interior

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16th Amendment

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The Government can collect an income tax

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19th Amendment

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Guaranteed women's voting rights

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The Niagara Movement

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A group of black intellectuals who met in Canada to discuss ways of securing equal rights

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Allied Powers

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Fr, Br, Russia, Japan, Ialy, US, 25 other countries

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Central Powers

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Germany, Ausria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria

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Espionage Act

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provided inprisonment for people who tried to incite rebellion in the armed forces or tried to obstruct the draft

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Schneck Vs. U.S.

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The right to free speech can be limited when it represents a "clear and present" danger to public safety

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Palmer Raids

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Att. Gen. Mitchell Palmer ordered the arrest and deportation of 500 anarchists and Socialists

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Fordney - McCumber Tariff Act

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increased tariff rates in 1922

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Marcus Garvey

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Jamaican immigrant who established the United Negro Improvement Association

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Kellog Briand Treaty

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renounced the aggressive use of force to achieve national ends

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Volstead Act

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Prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

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FDIC

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guaranteed bank deposits up to $5,000

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CCC

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employed young men on federal land projects and paid their families monthly sums

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Social Security Act

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the first old age insurance and welfare program

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Hawley Smoot Tariff

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Hoover's tariff that was the highest in history against foreign goods, caused Europe to est. their own super high tariff

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Axis Powers

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Germany, Ital, and Japan

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Nye Comittee

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investigative comittee who concluded the U..S. only participated in WWI to satisfy bankers and manufactuers

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America First Comittee

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Group that mobilized American public opinion against the war

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Cash & Carry

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According to the Neutrality act of 1939, belligerents could purchase war materials as long as they paid cash and carried the goods in their own ships

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Lend Lease Act

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Congress agrees to lend/lease goods to nations critical to U.S. defense