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56 Cards in this Set

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Homestead Act
receive land in the west, own it in 5 yrs.
National Banking Act
Created National Bank, angered South
10% Plan
Created by Lincoln, 10% of voters had to take vote of allegiance to be allowed back into union.
Wade-Davis Bill
Created by radicals. contained ironclad oath
Ironclad Oath
In order to hold office had to swear you were never involved in confederacy
Andrew Johnson
southerner who favored union, created new plan, ratify 13th amen. and pay back debts
Military Reconstruction Act
South occupied by military
Command of Army Act
any orders from Pres. must be approved by head general
Tenure of office Act
once appointed had to serve full term under the pres.
13th Amendment
Emancipation
Black Codes
ridiculous laws to keep blacks from being truly free. ex. vagrancy
14th Amendment
life, liberty, and property
15th Amendment
right to vote
Freedmans Bureau
gov. organization to help freed slaves
Carpetbaggers
ppl from north who moved south
Scalawags
Southerners who favored radical reconstruction
KKK
southern response to reconstruction. main focus to keep blacks from voting
Grant
surrounded by corruption. gold v. paper
Gould
corned the gold market made a ton before price plummeted
Credit Mobilier
Was payed 100 mil by gov. only spent 30 min and pocketed the rest.
Wormley House
Where DEm. and REp. met and agreed that Hayes would become Pres. if he agreed to pull troops out of the south
New South
turning towards industry
Sharecropping
form of slavery, work for old masters
Crop lien
loans for tools, take mortgages on their crops
Redeemers
"saved the south", get economy going again with industry
Laissez Faire
gov. leaving economics alone
Convict-lease system
prisoners rented out for work, slavery
Jim Crow Laws
aimed at blacks, to stop voting
Plessy v. Ferguson
plessy arrested for sitting in white train car, segregation is legal, "seperate but equal"
Ida Wells
founder of NAACP
Booker T Washington
Accomodation: accept it and work with it
Du Bois
Agitation: fight back against it
Great American Desert
The west
Exodusters
blacks fleeing the south
Buffalo Soldiers
all black cavalry unit, fought indians
Battle of little Bighorn
Custer killed all his men, was not prepared
Chief Joseph
tried to escape to canada
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Wovoka lead the ghost dance, scared soldiers, ended in shots fired and everyone dead
Reasons to go West
Farming, Ranching, Mining
West made possible by
Barbed Wire, Trains, homestead Act
"Frontier Thesis"
By Frederick Jackson Turner, americanism born on the frontier
Causes of Business Growth
tech. advances, standardization, railroads, supportive government
Second Industrial Revolution
propelled by steam engine, textile machines and blast furnaces
Transcontinental Railroads
made possible by pacific railroads act, central pacific and union pacific meet together
Vanderbilt
Railroad Tycoon
New Inventions
Refrigerated Railroad Car, Telephone(Bell), Electricity(Edison)
Rockefeller
Standard Oil, became a trust
Carnegie
Steel
J.P. Morgan
Investment Banking, focused on railroad stock
Sears
Retailing, mail catalogs
Molly Maguires
Irish group, used violence
Sand-lot Incident
anti chinese riots
Labor Unions
Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor
Haymarket Affair
angry about 8hr. workday, erupted into violence
Homestead Strike
violence erupted during steelworker strike
Pullman Strike
railroad boycotted train cars