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29 Cards in this Set
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Seneca Falls
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Seneca Falls
- Early Woman's Rights Convention - Call men and woman created equal |
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Written by: Harriett Beecher Stowe
** Showed the evils of slavery to the world * Emotional/ Moral Ended Slavery!! :) |
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* Andrew Jackson
Trail of Tears |
Spoil System/ Rotation
- Friends job in government - Hated National Bank (Closed It!) |
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Monroe Doctrine
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President Monroe
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LouisianaPurchase
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- Land obtained from France by Thomas Jefferson
- Gave us the Mississippi River - Port of New Orleans -TREATY w/ France |
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Civil War
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1860 - 1865
Civil War Between North vs. South (over States Rights) North South - Bigger Defense - POP factories Leadership $ Bloody War/ South destroyed
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Reconstruction
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13th, 14th and 15th Amendment
Civil War ** Rebuild South - Politically - Economically - Socially South was destroyed ** Radical Reconstruction
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Presidential
vs. Congressional Plan |
President Lincoln/ Johnston
- Forgive and Forget - Congress disproved (Radical Republicans) - HARSH TREATMENT of South - Military Reconstruction :( |
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Post Civil WarAmendments
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Reconstruction Amendments
13th : Ended Slavery 14th: Equal Protection (Citizenship) 15th: Men's Right to Vote |
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Black Codes
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Laws passed (South) to keep former slaves down.
- Slave codes = Black Codes= Jim Crow Laws |
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Jim Crow Laws
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- Laws in the South to keep Blacks down
- Segregation Laws -Poll Tax, Grandfather |
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Booker TWashington, WEB Du Bois
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Booker T Washington
* African Americans should get tech training and gradually become equal.
WEB Du Bois - Whites = Blacks Now - get formal education |
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Plessy v.Ferguson
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Supreme Court Case that established
Separate But Equal (1896) Reversed
Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) |
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Laissez Faire
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Economic Terms
- " Let It Be" - Hands off economy - No Gov't Regulation - Roaring 20's
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Sherman/Clayton
Anti-Trust Act |
- Early progressive to stop unfair monopoly practices.
- Sherman was weak- no bite - Clayton had bite ! |
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Robber Barons
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Nickname for Super Rich $$$$
Stole wealth $$$ from workers - Rockefeller - Carnegie - Ford - J.P. Morgan |
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Social Darwinism
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" Survival of the Fittest"
- applied to humans and business
- Rich Like This ! |
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Populist
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Political Parities -
Made up of farmers and workers to represent the little guy, Leads to Progressive Grangers- Against railroads/ Big Business |
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Referendum,
Recall, Secret Ballot 17th Amend |
Progressive Legislation
1: Direct vote (Referendum) 2: Recall (Impeach politicians) 3: Secrete Ballot (private vote) 4: 17th Amendment ( Direct Election of SENATE) |
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Homestead Act
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- Laws passed to encourage people to Move West
- Free Land (160 acres) |
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Dawes Act
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Native Americans
moved to Reservations ** UNCONSTITUTIONAL **
Wooster vs. Georgia |
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Unions
(Knights ofLabor, AFL) |
Collective Bargaining
Responds to the conditions From the Industrial Revolution * Safer * Shorter hrs. * Higher Pay |
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Strikes
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Tool used by Labor Unions
- Homestead - Coal Miners (Strikes) 1900 Gov't support Business Gov't Unions |
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Urbanization
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Farms Into Cities
- Over Crowding Tenements- projects large gross apartment buildings
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MeltingPot/Salad Bowl
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Immigrants
Melting Pot - Become American
Salad Bowl - Immigrants keep their culture |
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Nativism
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Belief that American should STOP the immigration of NEW Immigrants
** ANTI Immigrants |
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Chinese Exclusion
Gentleman's Agreement |
Immigration Laws to restrict certain groups
Gentleman' - Japan |
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Open Door Policy
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China-
U.S. stated that China must trade freely w/ all nations |
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SpanishAmerican War
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With Spain & Cuba
- Yellow Journalism - Sinking of the MAINE - U.S. wins war and we get (Guam, Puerto Rico and Philippians) |
