History 207 Final

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sharecropping: what is it?

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families living on small plots of land they rent from former masters

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sharecropping: who did it affect?

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mostly black families, some poor whites

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sharecropping: how did they pay for it?

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usually rent in crops. took away social and economic mobility

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sharecropping: when?

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after the civil war

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sharecropping: what did it affect?

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helped diversify southern agricultural economy.

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Copperhead: definition

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a Northerner accused of support the confederacy

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Copperhead: who was it

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mostly democrats from border states or lower union states

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Scalawag: definition

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A white southern republican during reconstruction

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Scalawag: what came of it?

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south republicans were heavily persecuted

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"The solid south"

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The south was overwhelmingly democratic after the civil war

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carpetbagger: definition

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a northerner who travels south to exploit the people during reconstruction

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Ku Klux Klan: origins

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organized in 1866 in Tennessee as Men's club for former confederates

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Ku Klux Klan: when and who did they persecute

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violent by late 1860s, targeting blacks and scalawags. active in southern democratic party

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white league

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desire to return south to conditions in Antebellum era

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Black Education: literacy rates

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literacy rates rose among southern blacks during reconstruction era

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Booker T. Washington: beginnings

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born into slavery, author of "Up From Slavery"

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Booker T. Washington: his dream

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wanted to achieve integration by black learning vocational, technical skills for immediate employment

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Booker T. Washington: accomplishments

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administered Tuskegee Institute

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Black religion trend in the reconstruction era

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black protestants grew

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black protestant groups?

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national baptist and African american Methodist episcopal (Methodist)

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15th amendment: when

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ratified in 1870 during reconstruction era after Johnson

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15th amendment: what does it do?

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legally enables black men to vote in all U.S. elections

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15th amendment: what happened

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often ignored due to poll taxes & literacy taxes. This also violated 14th amendment: equal protection

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15th amendment: Woman's rights groups

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split over 15th amendment
Lucy Stone & Susan B. Anthony

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U.S Grant administration: when

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from 1869 - 1877

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Election of 1868 who was in it?

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Grant vs. Horation Seymour "this is a white man's country"
Grant wins due to war record

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U.S Grant administration: Cabinet member scandal

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gold, indian post, post master general, navy ring, inion pacific railroad and whiskey ring

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U.S Grant administration: "Spoils system"

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obtaining government jobs by favoritism, cronyism, bribery, kickbacks.

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U.S Grant administration: Grant & KKK

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sent US marshall into south to find KKK

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U.S Grant administration: Act of 1871

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made KKK activities subject to federal prosecution

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U.S Grant administration: Civil Rights act of 1875

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Charles Sumner prohibited racial discrimination in juries, transports and places of amusement. Last piece passed in 1957

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U.S Grant administration: US Supreme court decision of 1883

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Passed act of 1875 for no discrimination in juries, but not in transports or places of amusement

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Stolen Election of 1876: who ran?

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Rutherford B Hayes (R, Governor of Ohio) vs. Samuel Tilden (D, Governor of New York)

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Stolen Election of 1876: why was it stolen?

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KK intimidated southerns to vote for Tilden

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Stolen Election of 1876: first outcome

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Tilden wins popular vote but only has 184/185 necessary electoral votes

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Stolen Election of 1876: disputes

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disputes in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana, Republican governors declare these 3 states for Hays

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Stolen Election of 1876: US house intervention

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15 member panel of House senate supreme court to decide.

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Stolen Election of 1876: Final outcome

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8 Republicans for Hayes, 7 Democrats vote Tilden, Hayes wins

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Compromise of 1877: why?

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to appease democrats angry over the "stolen election"

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Compromise of 1877: what were the conditions?

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Hayes advisers promised to remove troops from south
Federal Aid for the South and Fed
Gov. won't interfere with southern democrats in state political offices

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Chinese

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Discrimination strong in California during gold rush and after

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Chinese- "Panic of 1873"

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depression brought unemployment, Chinese blamed. violence in LA and SF in 1877

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Workingmen's Party of California (WPC)

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formed in 1870s in opposition to Chinese immigration,

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

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Prohibited immigration and citizenship for 10 years, extended into 20th century

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Blacks- "Plessy vs. Ferguson" || WHEN and WHAT?

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In 1896, issue of legally mandated racial segregation

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Blacks- "Plessy vs. Ferguson" || Outcome

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Supreme court ruled 14th amendment says it's fine as long as facilities are kept "separate but equal"

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Blacks- "Brown vs Board of Education"

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in 1954 cause concluded separate but equal violates "equal protection clause of 14th amendment

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Blacks- "Cummings vs Country Board of Education

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in 1899, Supreme court said towns could create white schools even if no black schools existed

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Blacks- W.E.B. Dubois: who was he

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Harvard educated PhD who wanted black men to go through higher education

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Blacks- W.E.B Dubois: his Book

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The souls of Black Folk

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Blacks- W.E.B. Dubois: what he did

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help create Niagara movement in 1905 which lead to NAACP in 1909, Critical of Booker T. Washington

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Blacks- Ida B Wells

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Black female journalist wrote articles about black lynching in South

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Blacks- Marcus Garvey: who was he?

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black separatist who opposed NAACP

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Blacks- Marcus garvey: what organization did he form?

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Formed Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1920

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Late 19th - 20th Racial issues: Blacks- Marcus Garvey: "return to Africa" movement

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through "his steamship co." had no ships, sold stock of fake company, convicted of mail fraud, imprisoned & deported