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30 Cards in this Set
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SOUTH'S ADVANTAGE
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-England and France dependent
-Could ride and shoot -governers and generals quit -home territory |
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FORT SUMPTER
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-started war
-Charleston Harbor S. property - Union try to resupply, fired upon by south -north surrendered. -Lee left home state. |
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BULL RUN
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-aka Battle of MANASSES
-1st battle of war Stonewall Jackson helps South beat North |
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ANTIETAM
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-aka Battle of SHARPSBURG
- UNION victory -only 2 days long, turning pt |
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GETTYSBURG and VICKSBURG
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-Gettysberg is major
-3 days of most ferocius fighting in America -1st 2 days were Southern victory -NORTHERN VICTORY, north takes Richmond |
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TOTAL WAR- Sherman's March
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took out everything 40 miles wide from Atlanta to Savannah
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10% Plan
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Lincoln's Plan, didn't pass
when 10% of Confederate state pledges allegience to Union, they can rejoin |
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13th Amendment
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outlawed slavery
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14th Amendment
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a citizen is any person born in the USA- get all rights of the constitution
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15th Amendment
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suffrage
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carpetbaggers
and Scalawags |
carpetbaggers came from the North and set up shop in the South
Scalawags were white republican southerners who moved North after the civil war |
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Election of 1876
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Pres. Grant steps down after 2 consecutive terms
Rutherford B. Hayes becomes Pres. |
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Compromise of 1877
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North is done with reconstruction in the South
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Laissez- faire
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"hands off" , US government didn't really regulate industry, turned blind eye to railroad monopolizing
embraces expansion and progress |
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WCTU and Suffrage
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3 traget groups:
-poor -immigrants -sinners |
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Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)
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farming nation
grange= educational and social organization for farming communities -launched movement to protest high rates and unfair prices by railroads -1st organized labor union in US |
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
1883 |
spoils system addressed
14k federal jobs placed under watch |
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Wabash case
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passed in 1887
supreme court reversed Laissez-faire, railroads cannot be controlled by states they run through |
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Interstate Commerce Commission/ACT
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MAKES REGULATION a NATIONAL POLICY
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SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT
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passed by congress in 1890
sets precedent for monopolies and trusts let courts decide if a corporation was a barrier to free trade :) |
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Homestead Act
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allowed 160 acres to anyone who moved west and had profit in 5 yrs.
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5 civilized tribes:
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1.)Seminole
2.)Cherokee 3.)Creek 4.)Chaktaw 5.)Chicasaw |
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Dawes Act
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forced Indians to act and live like Americans
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Battle of Little Big Horn
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aka Custer's Last Stand
General Custer all slain by Sioux |
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Wounded Knee
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aka Indian's Last Stand
last indian resistance of any magnitude |
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Sand Creek Massacre
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took place just before end of war
Colonel Shivington massacred 105 cherokee women and children bc cherokees fought for confederates |
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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300K Chinese day laborors
send chinese home :( |
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Homer-Plessey
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"SEPARATE but EQUAL"
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1877 Great Railroad Strike
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end of fed. reconstruction
started on B&O RR |
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Boxer Rebellion
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in China
first chance in US to implement OPEN DOOR POLICY |