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10 Cards in this Set
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FREEDMENS BUREAU
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RECONSTRUCTION AGENCY CREATED IN 1865. OFFICAL CONTRACTS THAT WERE MADE UP TO PROTECT LEGEL RIGHTS OF FORMER SLAVES. IT HELPED WITH EDUCATION
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JOBS
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ULYSSES GRANT
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FIRST APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN. HE LED ROBERT E LEE SURRENDING HIS CONFEDERACY TROOPS AGAINST HIS UNION ARMY. HE LATER BECAME 18 PRESIDENT WHERE HIS PRESIDENCY WAS FILLED WITH CORRUPTION
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THE COMPROMISE OF 1877
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CREATED THE END OF THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA. DEAL MADE BY THE COMMISSION OF SPEACIAL CONGRESSMAN TO END THE PRESIDENTAL ELECTION OF 1876. REPUBLICAN HAYES WAS DECLARED THE WINNER EVEN THOUGH HE LOST THE POPULAR VOTE. IN EXCHANGE THIS LED TO THE FED TROOPS LEAVING THE SOUTH
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SCALAWAGS
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TRAITORS AND WORTHLESS OF THE SOUTH. THEY WERE FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THOUGHT THEY COULD ACHIEVE MORE IN THE REPUBLICAN SOUTH.
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PRESIDENT JOHNSONS IMPEACHMENT
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WAS IMPEACHED BUT THE SENATE FAILED TO CONVICT HIM. HIS IMPEACHMENT WAS DUE BC HE FAILED TO FOLLOW THE TENURE OF OFFICE ACT WHEN HE ATTEMPTED THROWING OUT THE SECT. OF WARSTANTON. CONGRESS HAD TO GIVE APPROVAL FIRST. SECOND EVENT JOHNSON ATTEMPTED TO VETO THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. CONGRESS OVER HIS VETO. PEOPLE THOUGHT HE WAS RACIST
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BLACKS FUNCTION IN THE RECONSTRUCTED SOUTH?
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BLACKS GOT FREEDOM BUT WERE NOT PROTECTED FROM ABUSE OR EXPLOITATION. SUFFERED ECONIMICALLY AFTTER THE DEVASTATION FROM THE WAR. THEY WERE NOT GIVEN LAND OR ANY RESOURCES. SOME HAD TO JOIN THE ARMY WHERE THEY WERE TAUGHT HOW TO READ AND WRITE.
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CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT
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FIRST FEDERAL LAW TO RESTICT ANY IMMIGRATION ON THE BASIS OF RACE AND COLOR. THE ACT STOPPED CHINESE IMMIGRATION FOR 10 WHOLE YEARS. THIS ACT RECIEVED ALOT OF SUPPORT AND AIDED IN RELIEVING TENSION BETWEEN WORKERS AND MANAGEMENT. IN 1943 BARRIERS WERE REMOVED AND CHINESE MIGRATION WAS ALLOWED
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ELLIS ISLAND
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OVER 1 MILLION IMMIGRANTS CAME ABROAD SHIPS AND SAILED TO NEW YORK. THEY CAME IN HOPES FOR AN ENDLESS ARRAY OF OPPORTUNITES. BROUGHT TO ELLIS ISLAND WHERE THEY WERE PROCESSED INSPECTED AND REGISTERED BEFORE THEY WERE ALLOWED TO VENTURE INTO AMERICA. PEOPLE CAME FROM EVERY PART OF EUROPE
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FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED
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HE CONSTRUCTED CENTRAL PARK LOCATED IN NEW YORK. LED TO A MOVEMENT IN URBAN PARKS BEING BUILT. CITIES WERE OVERCROWDED AND CONGRESTED. THE NEED FOR AN OUTDOOR MOVEMENT TO IMPROVE HEALTH. HE HELPED BUILD PARKS IN MAJOR CITIES LIKE BROOKLYN BOSTON AND CHICAGO
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SHARECROPPERS
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FORCED DUE TO POVERTY AND WAS A CORRUPTED SYSTEM. DEVELOPED AFTER THE CIVIL WAR WAS OVER AND WAS BROUGHT ABOUT FOR LANDLESS WORKERS AND OFTERN FORMER SLAVES. FORCED TO FARM LAND IN EXCHANGE FOR FARM SUPPLIES AND A SHARE OF THE CROPS
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