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41 Cards in this Set
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Freedman's Bureau
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-Created to help transition freed slaves to freedom
-helped with jobs, education, protection, legal services, food, clothing, housing, etc -only to exist for ONE YEAR after the Civil War -hoped states governments would take over |
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Black Codes
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Laws created that seemed fair, but in reality were laws that gave African Americans almost no rights. The African Americans in the south were pretty much hopeless.
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Civil Rights Act
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Reconstruction
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Compromise of 1877
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Who were the Radical Republicans?
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Why was Johnson impeached?
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Who were scalawags and carpetbaggers?
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Scalawag: A native white Southerner who collaborated with the occupying forces during Reconstruction.
Carpetbagger: A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics. |
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What new systems of labor were developed in the south?
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Frontier
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Dawes Act
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Homestead Act
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Grange
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Reservations
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What caused conflict between th NAs and white settlers of The Great Plains?
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Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller
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Andrew Carnegie
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J.P Morgan
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Samuel Gompers
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Monopoly
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Trust
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Corporation
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Philanthropist
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Gilded Age
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Sweatshops
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What factors contributed to industrial growth in the late 1800's?
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Tenements
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Urbanization
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Tammany Hall
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Elis Island
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Segregation
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Jim Crow
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Why was Plessy vs. Ferguson an important Supreme Court decision?
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It was important because the Supreme Court declared the Jim Crow Laws respectable, saying Blacks were to be kept "separate but equal," meaning that segregation could continue.
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Reconstruction had three goals, were they all reached?
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What drew people to the Great Plains after the Civil War and how was this region of the country changed as a result?
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In what ways did the growth of industry and Big Business change the nation?
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How did the growth of ethnic diversity in America affect American society?
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