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31 Cards in this Set
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congress created this organization in 1865 to meet the immediate needs of those displaced by the civil war.
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Freedmen's Bureau
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owner of railroad monopoly
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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victory for sioux indians- general custer and his men were all killed
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the battle of little big horn
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business owners who acquired monopolies through exploitation and ruthlessness
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Robber Barons
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owner of the standard oil company
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John D. Rockefeller
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came from the north to do business in the south during reconstruction
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carpetbaggers
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rebuilding of the south after the civil war
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reconstruction
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made steel production efficient and less expensive
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Bessemer Process
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a social movement which championed the causes of the appressed in society
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progressive movement
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large all-black church
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African american episcopal church
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introduced in the south after the civil war to encourage separation of races and limit the property and voting rights of blacks
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Jim Crow laws
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outlined requirements for southern states to be re-admitted to the union during reconstruction
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Reconstruction act
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a guarantee of no imprisionment without appearing in court
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habeas corpus
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guaranteed citizenship rights to all people born in the U.S.
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14th amendment
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gave voting rights to all people
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15th amendment
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southerners who supported reconstruction
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scalawags
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a movement by indians in which they believed ther lands would be returned and the buffalo restored
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Ghost Dance
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a states residents not the states legislatures elect senators
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17th amendment
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owner of a steel monopoly
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Andrew Carnegie
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congress has the power to collect taxes on businesses and individuals
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16th amendment
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abolished slavery in the US
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13th amendment
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land given by congress to each state according to how many congressmen it had for the purpose of funding at least one public university
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Morrill land Grant Act
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The all black 9th and 10th U.S. calvary who participated in the indian wars of the post civil war era and later the spanish american war with the roughriders in cuba
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Buffalo Soldiers
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gave 160 acres of land to people willing to farm it for 5 years
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Homestead Act
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a law which abolished indian tribes and gave each family 160 acres to farm
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Dawes Act
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a deal made between democrats and republicans to settle an election dispute between Hayes and Tilden. The democrats accepted the Republican President and he ended Reconstruction
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Compromise of 1877
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this massacre marked the end of US army battles with indians over 200 men, women, and children died in this battle
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The battle of wounded knee
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the leader of the confederate forces during the civil war
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Robert E. Lee
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the leader of the union forces during the civil war later elected president of the US
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ulysses s. Grant
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social cultural political and economic rebuilding of the southern states following the civil war
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reconstruction
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Lincolns speech at the gettysburg affirming his belief in democracy and desire to see and end to the civil war
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gettysburg Address
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