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33 Cards in this Set
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Pullman Strike
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1894
Eugene Debs led thousands of workers after wages were cut in half. Courts ruled strikers violated Sherman Anti-trust Act |
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Richard Olney
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Attorney General
Federalized Illinois Ntl' guard to put strikers in jail |
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E.V Debs
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founded the American Railway Union
labor activist for RR Anti-trust act was used against him "illegal to act in restraint of trade" |
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Grand Administration
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1868
Union Civil War Hero prominent Gen. of US Army during Civil War, terms were laden with scandel |
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Reasons not to join Unions
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bashed by big business
black listed lose livelihood lose jobs |
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Reasons for Mass Immigration
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cheap farm land
Homestead Act 1862 |
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Turner Thesis
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"Frontier Thesis"
need for expansion in the frontier |
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Coxey's Army
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1894
Coxey wants Government to create public relief arrested with an army of the unemployed led by Coxey marched on Washington to press for public work relief |
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1986 Election
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William Jennings Bryan - Democrat
Mckinely - Republican * Mckinley won |
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Causes of 1893-1897 Depression
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started overseas and spread to the US, buyers cut back on their purchases which crippled American manufacturing
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American Federation of Labor
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Samuel Gompers
created when Knights of labor broke off catered exclusively to skilled laborers |
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Captains of Industry
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Carnegie- Steel
Rockefellar- Std. Oil JP Morgan- Banking |
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14th Amendment
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1866
declared all persons born or naturalized in the US to be citizens of their states and of the nation, and prohibited states from denying citizens equal protection and due process of law |
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Ocala Demands
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1890
called for govt. ownership & operation of RR and other utilities inflate currency do away with gold std. subtreasury plan direct election of senators graduated income tax better banking |
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Mckinley as President
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served 2 terms
the depression eased and prosperity began to return, after his win it broke up the populist party and pushed the Democrats back into its minority in the South |
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Booker T Washington
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founded Tuskegee
urged that African Americans should attend school, learn a trade Industrial education should be their goal |
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W.E. Dubois
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founder of NAACP
rejects permanent caste system of the South intellectual development |
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Wovoka
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Patiute holy man said that history would reverse itself and assured followers that a natural disaster would eliminate the white race
"Ghost Dance" |
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RR Strike in 1877
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RR workers staged the 1st and most violent nationwide industrial strike of the 19th century
caused by the RR owners decisions to cut wages strikers destroyed RR property and kept trains idle over 100 killed before the Fed troops ended the strike |
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Mississippi Plan 1875
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limit act of Reconstruction any way they could
local democratic clubs formed arm militias, marching definantly through black areas breaking up Republican meetings and provoking riots to justify killing hundreds |
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Redemption
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redemption succeeded with a combination of persistent white southern resistance, and coercion and failure of northern will
1876 *Nathan Bedford Forest "The South will Rise Again" ended with the Compromise of 1876 |
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Radical Reconstruction Agenda
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help the freed people make the transition to full freedom by providing them with the tools of citizenship and = economic opportunity
*14th and 15th Amendment Military presence in South introduce legislation to force southerners to change |
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Compromise of 1877
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Hayes was declared Pres. and he ordered the last federal troop out of the South
He appointed a former confederate general to his cabinet and promise to let southerners handle race relations themselves |
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Farm Problems
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Grange: formed by Midwestern farmers which offered bi-weekly social functions, shared grievances-- set up co-ops ---Farmer's Alliance--Populist party
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Middle Classness
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education
property leisure time average # of kids lower |
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Sitting Bull
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Sioux Indians
Tired of being encroached on their rights, left their reservation and Custer along with 3 armies were sent to round the Indians up and put them back on their reservation, the tribal warriors engaged in a surprise attack on Custer and killed every man |
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James Garfield
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elected in 1880
fatally shot four months after taking office |
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Knights of Labor
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1869
knights demanded = pay for women, an end to child labor and progrossive income tax Terrence Powderly was the leader |
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Telephones
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1876
Alexander Graham Bell |
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The Women's Bible
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Elizabeth Caddy Stanton
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States allowing Female voting
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WY, CO, UT, ID
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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outlawed trust and any other contracts that restrained free trade
loosely phrased and that it sometimes had the opposite effect: instead of regulating business monopolies, it regulated the labor unions that challenged these monopolies |
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Freedman's Bureau
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Federal program to help people who have been wiped out by war
Tried to get Education started-put $ in Rural schools to help destitute families |
