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51 Cards in this Set
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What group thought the Sounth should be punished?
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Radical Republicans
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Who became president of Washington College?
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Rober E. Lee
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Who fought for the adoption of Constitutional Amendments for voting rights?
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Robert E Lee
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14th Amendment
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grants citizenship to those born in the united states
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Freedmans Bureau
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Was established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the Sounth
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After reconstruction, many of the rights that African Americans had gained were lost through the use of what
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Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws
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What divided th 10 Southern States who had refused to ratify the 14th amendment into 5 military districts?
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First Reconstructions Act
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Who was banned from holding public office?
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Souther Military Leaders
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Who were poor white farmers who went along with Radical Repulicans
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Scalawags (scoundrels)
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Who moved south carrying cheap suitcases? Southeners accused them of coming to the south to get rich or seek political office.
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Carpetbaggers
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Who was the Democratic candidate in the 1876 election?
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Samuel J. Tilden
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Why was Ruther B Hays and Tilden election significant?
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It ended Reconstruction
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What deal was made by the election commitee?
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If Rutherford B. Hayes became president, Federal troops would withdrw from the South
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Lines of latitude are called?
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Parallels
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Lines of longitude are called?
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meridians
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The 0 line of latitude is called?
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Equater
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What are the physical features or climate of the great plains
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Flatlands rise gradually from east to west, low rainfall, dust storms adn erosion.
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Name the Nonsontiguous states
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Alaska Hawaii
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Name the states of the southwest region?
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Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona
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Visions of Abraham Lincoln?
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reconcilliation, preserve union more important than the punishing the south - Malice toward none & charity for one
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Visions of Robert E Lee
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Urged Southernes to reunite with the north as Americans
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13th amendment
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bans slavery in the US and many of its territories.
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15th amendment
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ensures citizens the right to vote regardless of race color or previous condition of servitude.
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What were the positive consequesces or Reconstruction?
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1)African americans were elected to public office
2)African american gained equal rights through Civil Righrs act of 1866 which authorized federal troops fro its enforcement 3) Freedmans Bureau was established |
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What were the negative consequences of Reconstruction?
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southern military leaders barred from public office
Northern soldiers supervised the south Reconstruction laws were harsh in the south & created problems Black codes |
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Describe political social and economic legacies of reconstruction
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1)AA migrate to the north and west
2)Share cropping and tenant faming 3)Southern government tried methods to deprive AA to vote 4)AA gains were lost black codes and jim crow laws 5) resented carpetbaggers |
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Black Crow Laws?
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Laws passed at controlling the feedmen adn enabling plantation owners to exploit AA workers
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Freedmans Bureau
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Allowed courts to prosecute those who violated the rights of the AA
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Granted full citizenship to AA
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First Reconstruction Act
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Divided the 10 southern states who had refused to ratify the 14th amendment into 5 military districts.
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Second Reconstruction Act
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Required the militray commanders of the southern district to begin reconstruction.
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Tenure of Aoffice Act
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prohibited the president from firing government officials. limiting pres. powers
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Jim Crow Laws
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Required AA to be seperated in almost every public place
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Who could not hold public office?
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Southern Military Leaders
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Who could hold public office
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Blacks
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Who Supervised the south?
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Northern soldiers
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Southeners resented these people because they took advantage of the South
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Carpetbaggers
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How did reconstruction end?
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Election of 1876 between Rutherford b Hayes and Tilden
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How did the end of reconstruction hurt AA
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Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes
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Lines of Latitude run east and west and measure the distance of what?
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North and south of the equater
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Lines of Longitude runnorth and south and measure the distance of what?
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East and West of the prime meridian.
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Describe the Great Plains
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Great American Desert/prairie grasses/flatlands/water and wind erosion/low rainfall/frequent dust storms/treeless wasteland
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What did the Transcontinental railroad do for people?
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Spanned entire continent form Spanned East to West
Encouraged people to settle in the west got products to market faster |
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Congress passed a bill calling for two companies to develop what? They game $$ and millions of acres.
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The Trancontinental Railroad
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Where did the Central Pacific start?
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Sacramento California and build east
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Where did the Union Pacific Start?
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Omaha Nebraska and build west.
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Where did the two tracks meet?
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Promontory Point (gold spike was driven in)
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Who worked on the Central Pacific
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The Chinese
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Who worked on the Union Pacific
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Former soldiers, freed slaves and immigrants
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Both occasionally hired who?
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Native americans
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New technologies that encouraged settlement of the great plains
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Transcontinental Railroad, steel plow and dry farming techniques allowed farmers to grow wheat, windmills, barbed wire;sod houses, well
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