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26 Cards in this Set
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John Rapier
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Important free black politician in the mid 1600's
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suffrage
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right to vote
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free labor
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work done by free blacks after slavery was ended
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states' rights
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says the federal government has limited power over the states and that states have ultimate sovereignty
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the Fourteenth Amendment
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In essence, it protected blacks against violation by southern state governments.
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Disfranchisement
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to deprive someone the right to vote
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the Fifteenth Amendment
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says that states can not deprive any citizen of the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Yeomen
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a farmer who owned a small plot of land that was enough to support a family
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Jim Crow Laws
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laws that restricted blacks in areas of behavior, general rights, and suffrage rights
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Who was rightfully supposed to win the 1876 election
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Samuel J. Tilden
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Andrew Johnson
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PR: 1865-1869
Democrat Alcoholic |
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Freedman's Bureau
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program set up after the war to help integrate slaves into society
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The Tenure of Office Act
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stated that the Senate has to give approval of any removal of any government official who had been appointed with Senate approval
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Edwin M. Stanton
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the spy that Johnson fired when he broke the the Tenure of Office Act
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Ku Klux Klan
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established in 1866 by 9 former Confederate Officers in Pulanski, TN
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Leo Frank
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most famous case of a white man being lynched. He was a Jew wrongfully accused of raping a little girl that worked for him.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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PR: 1877-1881
"Rutherfraud" |
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Populist Party (People's Party)
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party of farmers who supported equality
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Plessey vs. Ferguson
1896 |
case where Homer Plessey was arrested for sitting in a white train car and refusing to move to black car. Took case to supreme court and won
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J.P. Morgan
1837-1913 |
riches to more riches
invested in businesses became one of the richest men of his time bought Carnegie's steel company |
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Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931 |
founded GE
had financial backing of Morgan |
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Wilhelm Kemmler
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first person killed by the electric chair
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Alexander G. Bell
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created AT&T
created telephone |
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N.I.N.A.
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No
Irish Need Apply |
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Pinkerton Detectives
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developed in the 1850's to keep employees under control at factories
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Railroad Strikes of 1877
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first interstates strikes
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