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35 Cards in this Set
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Made slavery the main cause of the war
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U.S. Grant
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Wins at Vicksburg. Lincoln Puts him in charge, slowly bleeds lee's army out.
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Andrew Johnson
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Becomes president after Lincoln dies
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Faces Criticism
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Creates the motion on national citizenship. If you are born in America then you are American.
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Seperate but equal
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Fifteenth Amendment
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Gives black men the right to vote.
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New South
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South needs to industrilize and become more like the north.
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Henry Grady
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coined the term "New South"
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Sharecropping
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A farmer hires a laborer. Gives them seed and tools and to borrow a portion of his land.
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Printed out a 74 page catalog selling item. Used the train to distribute his catalogs.
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Aaron Montgomery Ward
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Very Corrupt. Would rip people off.
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Robber Barons
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Invented a cigaratte roller
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James Bonsack
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Became famous and very wealthy by oil. Refined oil to make kerosine. Owned Standard Oil Company
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John Rockfeller
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Buying out your competitors and then contolling the prices.
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Horizontal Intergration
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Rockfellers Motto
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"Pay nobody a profit."
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own all aspects of your company from raw materials to finished products.
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Vertical Intergration
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A secret organization . Was to create a workers paradise in America.
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Knights of Labor
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Takes over and calls the group the Knights of labor.
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Terrence Powerdly
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3000 people listen to speechs. Someone threw a bomb and killed a policeman. Police then started killing people.
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Haymarket
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Shot James Garfield in the back. Was a stalworth. Said he didn't kill Garfield that his doctors did.
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Charles Guiteau
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Took Garfields place. Was head of N.Y. city custom house before he became vice president. He was fired for fraud.
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Chester Arthur
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Had chester arthurs blessing. Creates a 3 person civil service commission. Only covers 12 percent of jobs.
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Pendelton Civil Servie act
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Bourbons
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Cheap not spending money, education is not very important.
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Famous for Hull House. Created an organization to help poor kids. Would keep them out of trouble and learn them.
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Jane Addams
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Educated folks pursue business instead of politics. Not so deserving politicians elected.
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Gilded Age
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Hated idea of civil service act. Strong policy of reconstruction
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Stalwarts
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Wanted Blaine as president. Pushed the idea of civil service act
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Half breeds
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Terrible Speaker. Passed the Sherman Anti- Trust act.
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Benjamin Harrison
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Bill that was ment to break-up big monopolies. Poorly designed that it actually does nothing. Attempt to regulate business.
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Sherman Anti- trust act
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Raised imported goods tax to 49.5%. Highest tax.
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McKinley Tariff
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Advocated free silver. Nominated by the democrats.
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William Jennings Bryan
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Blows up and sinks. It looks like the spanish wered responsible.
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U.S.S Maine
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States we will not occupy Cuba once we win their independence. We will turn Cuba over to the Cubans.
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Teller Amendment
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Ended the american revolutionary war
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Treaty of Paris
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Founded the AFL. Cigar maker
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Samuel Gompers
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This solved the contested election of 1876. A congressional committee met in 1877...selected Hayes as president in exchange for a promise to end reconstruction in the South.
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Comprmise of 1877
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