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64 Cards in this Set
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decoration day
who what when where |
first memorial day
may 1st south carolina blacks gathered on a race track |
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loyal rule
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replaced majority rule. reconstructs the southern gov
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accomplishments of freedmen bureau
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supplied food,medical serivce, helped education. negotiated employment between slaves and thier masters
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shermans order feb 1865
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set aside 400000 acres of land for newly freed slaves as a place to farm and live
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fisk & atlanta
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set up by black and white allies to train teachers, ministers and future leaders
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andrew jackson
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owned slaves accepted emancipation proc. unionist
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black codes
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obligated slaves to carry passes. have a cerfew & live in designated housing
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14th amendment and women
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some leaders such as elizibeth stanton & susan b anthony eded thier alliance with abolioshionists
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tenure of office act & results
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gives senate the power to approve changes in the presidents cabinet
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15th amendment flaws
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forbade state to deny the right to vote based off of race,servitude,color
flaws were they could still do literacy tests & charge |
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negro rule/ myth
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blacks only had power in the lower south, they had the right to vote but were black mailed into who to vote for
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kkk
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main purpose was political.began in tennesse
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inidan hunting & anti coolie clubs
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california white farmers would force indians into captive labor sometimes would hunt them as sport.
anti coolie- seeking laws against chineese labor inticing racism & organization of brutal attacks in chineese. |
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myra bradwell
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female attotney was denied the right to practice law in illinois bc she was married
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fredick jackson turner vs buffalo bill cody
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turner- described a peacful settlement of empty west land.
cody- describes a violent conquest of territoy occupied by savages |
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importance of buffalos to inidans.
factors that destoryed the buffalo |
indians hunted buffalo when crops failed. used hide for clothing,shoes and blankets. used bones to carve tools and horns.
whites moved in pushing buffalo out. desiease also affected the buffalo |
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problems in the resorvation policy
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indians had no say over reservation issues. were denied citizenship & they were unprocted by the 14 &15 amendment
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dawes act?
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authorized land to individual inidan families,dissoluton of comunity.
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carlisle school
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pennsylvania 1879 flagship of the gov indian school system
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ghost dance objectives & results
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spitiual dance. perserving indian culture. dancers swore off violence. as the religion spread the gov was worried about an uprising
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timber and stone act & results
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tried to stimulate settelment in california.nevada oregon and washington by allowing private citizens to buy inexpensive land.
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exodusters
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many african americans built all black western towns
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john muir
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conservationist pressured congress to authorize president harrison to create forest reserves
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riprian rights?
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common law principle. the stream belonged to god those who lived neary by could use the water as needed but should not dimmisnish the river. intended to protect nature byt the principle discouraged economic development
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standard time
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first time people would refer to time it took to get to one place froma nother instead of distance
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geroge washington carver
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horiculturalist son of salves. he became a chemist taughat at tuskeege institute. created hundreds of products using peanuts,soybeans & sweet potatoes
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vaqueros
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mexican cowboys
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joesph gilden
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illinois farmer. mass produced barbed wire
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meat packers largest profits from the by products
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hides for leather,blood for fertilizer, hooves for glue,fat for candles and the rest for sausages. coprporations used all parts from the cow bc unsold goods were dumped into waterways
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inveniton factory
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thomas edison. his goal was to create a minor invention every 10 days and a big invention ever 6 months
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edisons problem & solution
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he could only get a direct current of electric power that would only travel a mile or two. george westinghouse solved his problem
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black edison
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granville t woods. engineer patented 35 devices. major advances
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henry ford scheme & product
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made the car. made it available and affordable for everyone. had workers only due one task instead of numerous tasks at once
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fredrick taylor
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most influential advocate of efficent production. worked for the steel industries. told companies to reduce costs and increase the profits
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industrial accidents
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repetive tasks using high speed machines. slightest mistakes could cause serious injury or death
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knights of labor
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philidephlia garmet cutters. tried to attract a broad base of laborers..unions
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american federation of labor
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140,000 members pressed for higher wages,shorter hours and the right to bargian colletivly
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why were women excluded from traditional labor unions
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male unionists said women should not be employed anyways
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woobles
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industiral workers of the world IWW
believed workers should sieze & run the nations industries. collapsed durring world war 1 |
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factory workers wages
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1890- $486 per year- $12,000 modern day
1910- $630 per year- $15,500 modern dollars |
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pools
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companies that tried to control the market by agreeging how many products would be produced & the cost
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trusts
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agreement where an individual would be responsible for managing the finances of another person who was unwilling or unable to do so themselves
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holding companies
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owned a partial or complete intrest in other companies
stocks |
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financiers
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formed a holding company then persuaded producers to sell thier firms to new companies. they raised oney by selling stocks and barrowing money from banks
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social darwinism
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like darwins concept of survival of the fitests. but argued cooperative activity fostered by the government intervention was fairer.
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shermans anti trust act
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many states were making monopolies & regulating companies illegal, anti shermans act helped make illegal contracts that were in the form of trusts or otherwise consiracys
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of every 100 immigrants how many returned to thier home land
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30 would return home
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ken societies
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organized social celebrations and relief serivces
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whey
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chineese loan associations, raised $ to help members acquire business
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fongs
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village associations rented appartments to homeless members
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pardones
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(boss) found jobs for unskilled workers
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dennis kearney
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irish immigrant. kearney and his followers intimedated san fransico employers into refusing chineese immigrants work and ran hundred of asians out of the city
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real estate covenants
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kept mexican familes isolated as they pleged whties not to sell homes to mexicans black or jews
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traditional beliefs about poverty
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anyone could escape poverty though hard work and clean living
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humanitarian beliefs about poverty
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peoples enviornments nor thier short comings caused poverty and sociery should help them improve thier social conditions
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graft or gratitude
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to finance thier activities and campaigns employers would exchange favors for votes & money
they would help workers in exchange for votes |
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settlement houses
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located in inner cities. offered vocational classes, english lessons,childcare nutrition and housing
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failures of urban reform
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failed to understand cities diverse populations and people varying visions of reform
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cycling
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by 1900 10 million americans owned bikes. this urged states to make for paved roads
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tramp athletes
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paid none students hired to help teams win
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teddy roosevelt & football
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roosevelt was a strong advocate of sports. had a white house conference to discuss ways to eliminate brutaility bc there was a high number of injurries durring the games
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dw griffith
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birth of a nation epic civil war reconstruction. very racists. views blacks as a threat to moral values. first motion picture
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yellow journalism
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downplays news in favor to sell more eye catching headlines
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ethnic food
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immigrants made influential and lasting contributions to the nations culinary culture, also gave them a way to hold on to thier cultures
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