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Did the North or South like the Compromise of 1850 more and why? |
The south because a new and more affective fugitive slave law was enacted |
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Bleeding Kansas |
Popular sovereignty vote in Kansas that was one as a slave state because people from Missouri illegally voted |
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Why did the south like the Dred Scott Decision |
They liked it because they could still owned their slaves and free territory so was there really "free" or "non slave" territory |
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Election of 1860 |
Lincoln won the election even though he did not win the popular vote so the south was mad and it eventually led to the southern succession |
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What was the 13th amendment |
It formally abolished slavery |
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What was the 14th amendment |
It granted citizenship to all people born in the US including former slaves |
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What was the 15th amendment |
It granted African-American (former slaves) men the right to vote |
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Lincoln's reconstruction plan (10% plan) |
Government would pardon all Confederates who wanted to swear allegiance and then they could form a new state government |
Open door policy |
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Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plan |
Similar to Lincolns plan but excluded high ranked confederates and wealthy Southern land orders |
Lincoln's vice President |
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Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plan |
Similar to Lincolns plan but excluded high ranked confederates and wealthy Southern land orders |
Lincoln's vice President |
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Radical Republican reconstruction plan |
Didn't recognize state governments formed under Lincolns in Johnson's plans. They drafted the 14th amendment. |
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Name American Inventions of the late 19th century |
Telephone, typewriter, car, electricity |
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Influences on Business in late 1800s - early 1900s |
Bessemer Process, Telephone, Trusts, Railways |
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Workplace issues of the late 1800s |
Low wages, long hours, faulty equipment and unsafe working conditions, and they were not entitled to sick or vacation days |
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What started the oil boom? |
Drilling for oil with a steam engine made by Edwin L. Drake |
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What started the oil boom? |
Drilling for oil with a steam engine made by Edwin L. Drake |
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Bessemer Process |
Invented by Henry Bessemer and William Kelly. Injected air into Milton iron to remove carbon and other impurities. By 1880 this Process produced 90% of the nations steel. Also made skyscrapers and railways possible |
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Electricity |
Invented by Thomas Edison. Electric street cars made way for outward spread of cities and factories could be built anywhere. |
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Electricity |
Invented by Thomas Edison. Electric street cars made way for outward spread of cities and factories could be built anywhere. |
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Typewriter |
Invented by Christopher Sholes. Made a lot more jobs for women. |
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Telephone |
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell. Opened a worldwide communication network |
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How did railways change America? |
People could travel across the country and move faster and goods could move from state state |
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What were complaints against the railroads? |
Farmers saw them as corrupt and people complained how expensive the trains were and they charged people different rates. |
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Describe new business strategies of this time period |
Vertical and horizontal integration |
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Describe new business strategies of this time period |
Vertical and horizontal integration |
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Vertical integration |
Process of buying out your suppliers |
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Horizontal integration |
Process of buying out other companies producing the same thing |
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Horizontal integration |
Process of buying out other companies producing the same thing |
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What is Social Darwinism? |
The theory of biological evolution. He talked about natural selection in his book "On the Orgin of Species" |
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Horizontal integration |
Process of buying out other companies producing the same thing |
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What is Social Darwinism? |
The theory of biological evolution. He talked about natural selection in his book "On the Orgin of Species" |
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What were the some business strategies used by Rockefeller? |
Joined competing companies in trust agreements. Turned their stock over to a group of trustees. He used this trust to gain total control of the oil industry in America |
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Horizontal integration |
Process of buying out other companies producing the same thing |
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What is Social Darwinism? |
The theory of biological evolution. He talked about natural selection in his book "On the Orgin of Species" |
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What were the some business strategies used by Rockefeller? |
Joined competing companies in trust agreements. Turned their stock over to a group of trustees. He used this trust to gain total control of the oil industry in America |
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What is the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act? |
Made it illegal to form a trust. But their definition of trust was vague so it was ineffective |
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Horizontal integration |
Process of buying out other companies producing the same thing |
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What is Social Darwinism? |
The theory of biological evolution. He talked about natural selection in his book "On the Orgin of Species" |
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What were the some business strategies used by Rockefeller? |
Joined competing companies in trust agreements. Turned their stock over to a group of trustees. He used this trust to gain total control of the oil industry in America |
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What is the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act? |
Made it illegal to form a trust. But their definition of trust was vague so it was ineffective |
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Describe working conditions of the late 1800s |
7 day weeks with very long hours. Employees were not entitled to vacation, sick, or injury due to work days. Dirty factory conditions. Dangerous/faulty equipment. Everyone in family had to work in order to make enough money. |
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Craft unionism |
Skilled workers from one or more trades |
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Craft unionism |
Skilled workers from one or more trades |
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Industrial unionism |
All laborers-skilled and unskilled in 1 trade |
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The Haymarket Affair |
Protesting against a police violence after a striker had been killed. Bob was tossed at the police so they fired on the workers |
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The Homestead Strike |
Workers heard a potential pay cuts so they went on strike. Firck hired armed men to protest the plant so he could hire scabs, or strikebreakers, to keep it operating |
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Yellow dog contracts |
A contract swearing that they would not join a union |
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Why did Europeans migrate to America? |
Wanted to escape religious persecution and needed more jobs also was experiencing famine |
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Why did Europeans migrate to America? |
Wanted to escape religious persecution and needed more jobs also was experiencing famine |
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Why did the Chinese migrate to America |
Came for gold in California |
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Why did people from the west Indies migrate to America? |
Their jobs were scarce and the industrial boom in the United States promise jobs |
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Why did Mexicans migrate to America? |
They came for jobs and to get away from political turmoil |
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What hardships endure immigrants indoor to get to America? |
The steamship safe trip to get over here but very crowded and disease would spread quickly. Had to go through either Ellis Island or Angel Island. Both you had to go through questioning and examinations |
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Navitism |
Favoritism towards native born Americans and lead towards anti-immigration efforts |
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