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5 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction Successes
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Freedmans Bureau- government agency established during reconstruction; helped blacks get started after slavery
Reconstruction amendements- 13th, 14th, 15th Union restored back into one nation |
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Reconstruction Failures
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Reconstruction Klan KKK- tried to recreate pre- civil war confederacy
Slaughter house supreme court case- differations between US citizenship and state citizenship Jim crow laws- term used to explain why blacks are segregated and discrimnated against |
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U.S. & Native Americans
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Indian Policy- tried to assemilate Indians, convert them to christianity
Voluntary assimilation- Cherokee were the only ones, tried to fit in hardcore Indians percieved as Barriers to progress- led to indian demise Indian removal act- law that forced all indians out of the US Bilogical warfare- 100s of diseased animals introduced to buffalo |
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Robber Barons and Monopoly
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robber barons- diragitory; robbing people and percieveing to be royalty
no regulations/ restrictions- no rich people are regualted, they can get away with anything. oil baron- JD Rockerfeller- owned 90% of oil intrest in USD. Did this by oil intergration Era of oligopoly- where a few individuals control the entire economy |
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Justifying Gilded Age Wealth
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Laissez- Faire doctrine- there should be no government intervention in the economy
14th amendment redifined- made companies US citizens Social Darwinism- survival of the fittest, strong the bussinessmen survive, weak do not Henry George- opposed the guilded age . wrote a book named progress and poverty. |
