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33 Cards in this Set
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Freedman's bureau |
-declared that freed slaves must be free to choose their on employers, and be paid for their labor -May 1865 -General Oliver O. Howard |
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John Wilkes Booth |
-assassinated Lincoln -accomplices targeted Andrew Johnson -Johnson became president |
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Why did Johnson lack presidential values? |
-he was a bigot |
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"black codes" |
-designed to restrict freedom for African-Americans -intended to preserve slavery -varied from state to state -interracial marriages were prohibited -testimony of blacks was only acceptable in legal cases involving blacks -they could not own farmland -could not serve on juries -blacks who worked for whites had to go into labor contracts -history makes Sarah angry |
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Thaddeus Stephens |
-radical republican -big fat racist -big fat giant weenie -giant holeass |
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14th Ammendment |
-established constitutional guarantee of basic citizenship for all Americans except for Native Americans -significant in state v federal arguments -1866 (federal government) -1868 (all states had to adopt it) |
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15th Ammendment |
-1870 -forbids the states to deny any person a vote |
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Carpetbaggers |
-northern Republicans came down to the south to take up the open government positions that were free after the war |
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greenbacks |
-depreciated, not gold, but like money -most war bonds should be paid back in greenbacks instead of gold |
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Crédit Mobilier |
-public learned about the company in 1872 and its corruption -sham construction company ran by the directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, milked the Union Pac. for money for payouts for the firm -Rocked the Grant administration |
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KKK |
-1866 as a social club -intimidation of blacks -spread rapidly across south -"worse than slavery" -white supremacists -Large impact on southern politics -As a result of terrorism, republican power collapsed in the south |
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Horace Greely |
-reformer -dumb hippie dude -promoted vegetarianism, socialism, and spiritualism |
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compromise of 1877 |
compromise between republicans and southern democrats that ended radical recontruction |
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Rutherford B. Hayes wife nickname |
Lemonade Lucy because of ban of alcohol from whitehouse |
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End of recontsruction |
most southern states had completed the requirements of reconstructoin by 1876. The presisdential elections were so close that year that a special commission was made to count contested electoral votes. Presidency was given to republican, Rutherford B Hayes. Democrats promised that the last federal troops would be withdrawn from Louisiana and South Carolina, putting an end to Radical Republican administrations in southern states. |
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John D. Rockefeller |
founder of Standard Oil Company of Ohio amibitious, organized, and self-disciplined capitalist supported education and medicine with his fortune. |
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Standard Oil Company of Ohio |
the largest refiner in the nation
by1879, contolled 90% of country's oil refining Did not depend on products or services of other, supplied everything needed. Rockefeller gained control of transportation |
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Andrew Carnegie |
-poverty to riches, uncommon in this time period
-developed a military telegraph system -from telegraphy to railroading to bridge building to steelmaking to investments -wanted to dominate industry and was willing to abuse power and lie |
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J. Pierpont Morgan |
-investment banker
-sought to consolidate rival firms into giant trusts -By the 1890s he controlled 1/6 of the nations railways - |
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Samuel Gompers |
founding president of American Federation of Labor |
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American Federation of Labor (AFL) |
-federation of national organizations
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Homestead steel strike |
stalled the emerging industrial movement
-1892 -represented culminating events of guided age |
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Pullman Strike |
1894 stalled the emerging industrial movement represented culminating events of guided age |
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Industrial workers of the world (IWW) |
Attempt to revive industrial unionism
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Second industrial revolution |
-mid 19th century -cenetred in US and Germany Large-scale industrail develpoment Spurred by -creation of interconnected transportation and communication -widespread electrical power -systematic application of scientific research to industrial process |
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Rising big business |
monopolies of large companies including
-Rockefeller -Carnegie -Morgan |
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Labor conditions and organizations |
work sucked, unions helped |
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Rising labor unions |
work sucked, unions helped |
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Knights of Labor |
-founder: Uriah S. Stephens - protected workers members from retaliation by employers and created a sense of solidarity |
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Child labor |
after the civil war, millions of children took up jobs outside the home. -by 1880, 1/6 children in US was working full time -children as young as 8 were working alongside adults 12/6 left little time for education |
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Great railroad strike of 1877 |
-strike in response to wage cuts and long hours -strike failed -left hundreds dead and millions of dollars in property damage -demonstrated potential union strength and a need for tighter organization |
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Anarchism |
-anarchists beleived that government- any at all- was an abusive device used to oppress and exploit the working class |
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Haymarket affair |
-grew indirectly out of the prolonged agitation for an 8 hour workday -resulted in police brutality |
