Reconstruction, The Gilded Age, And The Gilded Age Protest

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Lincolns 10 Percent Plan

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What: It was a plan that was created by President Lincoln to win back the loyalty of the south before the end of the civil war.

Who: Lincoln

Why:The purpose of this plan was to give most former Confederates amnesty, or a pardon, for their war actions.

Sign: Was used by Andrew Johnson to pardon everyone

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Black Codes

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What: Laws that limited freedman freedom and designed to keep white in power.

Who: South White Conservative

When: Congressional Reconstruction

Sign: Northern reaction to the laws helped produce Radical Reconstruction and passage of the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, as well as creation of the Freedmen's Bureau.

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Reconstruction Amendments

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The Thirteenth Amendment (both proposed and ratified in 1865) abolished slavery. Ended Slavery

The Fourteenth Amendment (proposed in 1866 and ratified in 1868) included the Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. Citizenship

The Fifteenth Amendment, (proposed in 1869 and ratified in 1870 under the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant) grants voting rights regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" Voting Rights

Sign: Give freedmen same rights as white men under law

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legality of racial segregation so long as facilities were "separate but equal."


Source: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Plessy v. Ferguson

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Booker T. Washington

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Sign: Washington's idea that blacks should accept an inferior status for the present as they worked to improve themselves for the future.



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William E. B. Dubois

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Who: A Scholar and political activist who helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Sign: Demand equal rights and is the Leader of NAACP

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Laissez faire

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What: Policy dictating a minimum of governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society.
it was assumed that the individual who pursues his own desires contributes most successfully to society as a whole.

Sign: Was the function of the state is to maintain order and avoid interfering with individual initiative. American way of life

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John D. Rockefeller

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Who: He placed the stock of the company and its affiliates in other states under control of a board of trustees, establishing the first major U.S. business trust company. He owned 90% of all the standard oil businesses at the time.

Sign: Started the first trustees.

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Grover Cleveland

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Who: The best president during the Gilded Ages for doing anything bad like taking brides.

Sign: Being the the best for doing nothing showed how bad political was gotten with Big Business .

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Interstate Commerce Act

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What: Originally designed to prevent unfair business practices in the railroad industry, the act shifted responsibility for the regulation of economic affairs from the states to the national government.

Sign: the first independent regulatory agency of the U.S. government.

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

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What: Federal legislation passed in 1890 prohibiting "monopolies or attempts to monopolize" and "contracts, combinations, or conspiracies in restraint of trade"

Who: Sen. John Sherman

Sign: First U.S. legislation enacted to curb concentrations of power that restrict trade and reduce economic competition. Used to stop Unionists

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/sherman-antitrust-act#ixzz1lxQv9wlX

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Texas Seed Bill Veto

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What: A veto bill about Texas needing money to buy seeds.

Sign: "The government is support by the people, the government does not support the people." -Grover Cleveland
Shows the way Laissez faire impact the government.

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Who:A famous orator and one of the most influential preachers of his time, he opposed slavery and supported women's suffrage, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and scientific biblical criticism.

Sign: Supported Darwinism and wrote about it.

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Herbert Spencer

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Who: advocate of the theory of social Darwinism.
System of Synthetic Philosophy, 9 vol.

Sign:Spencer's phrase, "the survival of the fittest." The free market system, without interference by governments, would weed out the weak and unfit.

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Horatio Alger

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Who: An Author whose novels often depicted poor but honest characters who, by persistent, spirited efforts, succeeded against all odds.

Sign: Sold many books with the message of working hard to succeed. Laissez faire overtones

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Samuel Gompers

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Who: The Leader who founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Sign: One of the biggest and first unions.
1. Only had skill workers
2. Never support crazy changes
3. Did not follow any party

Extra: Homestead Steel Strike, 1892
- Ended in violence
- Assassination Attempt on Henry Clay Frick

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American Railway Union

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What: A Union of all the railways workers in the Nation that grow as fast it died.

Sign: Pullman strike, which led the end of it, the ARU committed itself to a nationwide boycott of all trains that included Pullman cars. Then, the small army had to be sent to end it. SHOW THAT STRIKES WERE NOT WORKING.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/american-railway-union#ixzz1lxbM7Pdi

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Eugene V. Debs

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Who: The Leader of the ARU and went to jail cause of the Pullman Strike

Sign: He helped found the U.S. Socialist Party

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Omaha Platform

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What: A Platform that show the reforms during the Election of 1892

Sign: Gain the Populist the support it needed.

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Populist Party

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What: A U.S. political party that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issue, free coinage of gold and silver, government ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax.

Sign: Reject Laissez faire
Only had skill Labor
They represent the past life of U.S

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