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49 Cards in this Set
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What does Reconstruction stand for?
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After Civil War
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What did former slaves want to be awarded during Reconstruction?
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Former slaves wanted to own land.
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What was the greatest success of Reconstruction?
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The greatest success was of Reconstruction was education.
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Who was Henry Grady?
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Henry Grady was a Newspaper editor from the Atlanta Constitution. He challenged white supremacy.
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Who was James Garfield and William McKinley?
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James Garfield and William McKinley are faceless presidents. Garfield died in 1881 and McKinley died in 1901.
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Gilded means?
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The surface is covered with gold.
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Henry Bessemer Invented what?
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Henry Bessemer developed the first cost-efficient process for the manufacture of steel in 1856,
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Marry Lease said:
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"Raise less corn and MORE hell"! She was a lawyer.
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What happened to the sixteenth street baptist church?
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On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. This murderous act shocked the nation and galvanized the civil rights movement.
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What was Bloody Sunday?
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The Selma to Montgomery marches, also known as Bloody Sunday and the two marches that followed, were marches and protests held in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. All three were attempts to march from Selma to Montgomery where the Alabama capitol is located.
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What happened during the arrest of Martin Luther King?
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On good Friday King is arrested and Jailed.
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Who was James Meredith?
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In 1962 he became the first black student to successfully enroll at the University of Mississippi.
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What is the 13th amendment?
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“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
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What is the 14th amendment?
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The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States"
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What does the 15th amendment do?
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"right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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World war one:
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-Lasted 4 years
-Conflict with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey -Allies with France, Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan -10 million military deaths -Fought from lines of trenches and supported by artillery and machine guns, infantry assault, tanks, early airplanes and poisonous gas. -President Woodrow Wilson |
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What where the Black codes?
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The Black codes authorized local officials to apprehend unemployed blacks, fine them for vagrancy, and hire them out to private employers to satisfy the fines.
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Who is a carpetbagger?
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Carpetbaggers were white men from the North, most of them veterans of the Union army who looked on the South as a more promising frontier than the West and had settled there at war's end as hopeful planters, businessmen, or professionals.
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What did the KKK and the White Camellia do?
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The Ku Klux Klan and the White Camellia used terrorism to frighten or physically bar blacks from voting.
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WWII
What are the two sides that historians take on Treaty of Versailles argument |
Half of historians feel it was too harsh
Other half: Treaty wasn't too harsh. The problem was it wasn't enforced. |
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WWII
USSR stands for what? |
United Soviet Socialist Republic
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WWII
Name the four totalitarians of WWII |
Joseph Stalin - USSR
Benito Mussolini - Fascist Italy Adolf Hitler - Nazi Germany Emperor Hirohito - Japan |
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WWII: Unchecked Expansion
Japan into _______ and _______ during the 19__'s |
Machuria and China during the 1930's
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WWII: Unchecked Expansion
Hitler begins re____ of Germany Germany Occupies _______ in 1936 Germany Annexes _______ in 1938 Germany Occupies _______ in 1938-39 (Dagger pointed at heart of Germany |
Rearmarmant
Rhineland Austria Czechoslovakia |
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WWII: Unchecked Expansion
Germany, Italy, and Japan form alliance called the ____________ |
Pact of Steel
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WWII: Unchecked Expansion
France and Great Britain called a conference with Germany called what? What was discussed? |
Munich Conference
Discussed what will happen with Czechoslovakia Appeasement |
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WWII: Unchecked Expansion
What was the pact between Germany and the USSR called? When was it signed? |
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact: August 1939
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WWII: Unchecked Expansion
What marked the beginning of WWII? |
Nazis march into Poland Sept. 1939
Great Britain declares war on Germany |
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WWII:
Germany's three allies |
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy
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What was the America first movement and who was a founder? |
Charles Lindberg advocated staying out of war
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WWII:
Date of Pearl Harbor attack |
Dec. 7, 1941
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WWII:
Leader of Japanese fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor |
Admiral Yamamoto
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Who is harrier in the front than in the back?
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Jackie
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Reconstruction
Freedmen wanted what most of all and why |
Land
Freedom Independence |
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White Southerners wanted
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Cheap labor
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White northerners wanted
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to know they didn't fight war in vein
Didn't want south to reestablish slavery |
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Northerners moved south why
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opportunity/jobs
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Lincoln's Presidential Reconstruction Plan was
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Andrew Johnson
Proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction 1863 aka 10% plan Liberal issue of pardons |
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Black codes were what?
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Southern states fined blacks if they didn't have land, money, or job
Illegal to be vagrant. Forced to pay off fine |
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What was southern homestead act?
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Failed because Blacks had no money for transportation or cattle
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Sharecrop
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White southerners own land and blacks work land
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Debt Pinage
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White own land and supplies
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Reconstruction act of 1867 (3 items)
(Black men allowed to vote) |
South cut into 5 districts
Under Military rule Under control of union general |
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Iron Clad and Loyalty Oath
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White men swear they never fought against their country and they were allowed to vote
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Which President was impeached
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Andrew Johnson
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Panic of 1873
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Economic crisis
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Candidates of Election of 1876
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Tilden and Hayes
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Biggest failure of reconstruction
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amendments not reenforced
redistribution of land |
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Biggest success of reconstruction
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Education
Amendments |
