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