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166 Cards in this Set
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Who did the South choose in the Elections of 1865
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Ex-Confederates from the South
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Freemen's Bueau Bill
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Gave feedmen clothing, food, and schooling
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The Lost Cause
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The South could not secede from the Union
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Black Codes
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Laws individual states had limiting black's freedom
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Intransigence
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stubbornly refusing to compromise
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travesty
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a sad event
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override
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When Congress disagrees with a president and discards his veto
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John Scopes
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A school teacher who was put on trial for teaching darwinism
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Hiram Wesley Evans
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Started KKK in mid-west
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Alfred E. Smith
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First Catholic to run for President
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Black Tuesday
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October 29, Wall Street panic, everybody sold their stocks
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Protective Tariff
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Extra taxes placed on foreign good
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Reconstructive Finance Corporation (R.F.C.)
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Hoover set up this system that would use the trickle-down theory
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2 Causes of stock market CRASH
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greed, corruption
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Why was Johnson impeached
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Openly defied Tenre of Office act Congress passed
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1 Part of the 14th Amendment
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Prohibited States from depriving all citizens of "life, liberty, and property"
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disfranchise
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To take away the right to vote
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15th Ammendment
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all races can vote
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Steps of impeachment
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1. trial in front of Senate
2. vote for resolution 3. need 2/3 of Congress |
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folly
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absurdity
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Name for decade of 1920
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Roaring Twenties
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Comical Actor (1920s)
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Charlie Chaplin
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Rudolph Valentino
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famous actor
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Will Hays
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Hired to monitor all movies
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George Ruth
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"Babe" Ruth, baseball player for Yankees
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Charles Lindbergh
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Flew a plane across Atlantic
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"Flapper"
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A rebelious girl in the 20s
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Marcus Garvey
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Black Jamaican urging blacks to take pride in their heratige
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Commercialized leisure
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Paying to have fun
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National Pastime
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Baseball
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domestics
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house hold servants who did housework
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Ludlow Colorado
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Mining town controlled by Rockefeller
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Coney Island
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2 mile stretch with beaches, board walk, fun and games
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benevolent corporate paternalism
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Comapanys acting "fatherly" by providing for their workers
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neutrality
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Not picking sides in a war, and still trading freely
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John J Pershing
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General hired to chase Pancho in Southwest
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Sarajevo
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Where they killed arch duke of Austria
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Triple Entente
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Russia, France, and Great Britain
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Triple Allience
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Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
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Who called who a "flub dub and mollycoddle"
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Roosevelt called Wilson
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Lusitania
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British Passenger ship sunk by Germans, 128 Americans died
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Zimmermann Note
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telegram from Germany to Mexico urging them to fight U.S.
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Fransisco "pancho" Villo
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Mexican outlaw who gained power by force
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Was Woodrow Wilson a racist
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Yes
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Most significant piece of legislation by Wilson
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Federal Reserve Act
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Clayton Act
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Outlawed unfair competition in buisiness, did not succede
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Who created the FTC
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Woodrow Wilson
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Nickname for Industrial Workers of the World
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Wobblies
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Margaret Sanger
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Nurse and social activist concentrating of birth control
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What would provide the final impetus for woman suffrage
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WWI
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Atlanta Conpromise
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Idea that blacks and whites could be separated, but treated fairly
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Hull House
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A spear head for reform
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Prohibition
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Banning of Alcohol
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Social Gospel
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Sought to reform society by church
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Can you describe the typical progressive
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No
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Thomas Lofton Johnson
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Mayor of Cleveland, big reformer
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Robert LaFollette
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From Misconson, first Mayor, then senator, reformer
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NCL
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National Consumers Leauge, cross-class alliance
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depression
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When the total value of goods goes down for 2 consecutive quarters
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public works program
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government hiring poor people to build public works
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Jacob S Coxey
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proposed the public works program
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Winner of election of 1896
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McKinley
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Democrat of election of 1896
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William Bryan
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Republican of election of 1896
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William McKinley
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What party set political agenda for next decades
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Populist
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How did William Bryan change the style of campaigning
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He traveled all over and gave speaches
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Blacklisted
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To be blacklisted is to be put on a list that tells other companies not to hire you, you are being boycotted
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What was the immediate cause of the Pullman strike
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The pay was just cut
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What issues did a populist support
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Reforms in: Transportation, Land, and Money
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Organized labor
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Laboring Unions
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Terence Powderly
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The first leader of the Knights of Labor
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Knights of Labor
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First mass organization of America's working class
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American Federation of Labor
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A Labor Union
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1870's work day was how many hours
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12
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1870's work week was how many days
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6
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Haymarket Riot/affair
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a small movement that soon escalated into great violence
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Gov. John Peter Altgeld
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Pardoned three haymarket rioters because he knew punihsing them was wrong
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concerted action
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working together to accomplish a goal
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Uriah Stephens
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Founded the Knights of Labor
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Anarchists
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revolutionaries
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Suffrage
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the right to vote, limited to men until 19th ammendment in 1920
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How many states allowed women the right to vote in 1890
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One
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Between 1882 and 1892, lynching was increased how much
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200%
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Lincoln's Primary aim of reconstruction
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National Unity
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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruciton
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by Lincoln, gave a full pardon for rebels renouncing
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Wade Davis Bill
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The Bill that declared 50% of a state's voters must accept pardon before allowed back
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In 1864, did the President and Congress agree on reconstruction
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No
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Lincoln States
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The 4 states that passed Lincol's 10% plan
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Labor Code
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outlawwed wipping but allowed arm to disipline blacks
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Sherman Lands
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over 400,000 acres given to 40,000 free blacks
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What happened on April 15, 1865
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Lincoln was shot
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What kind of demands did Johnson have for the South
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Mild
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Johnson's plan for Reconstruction
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offered pardons to all rebels who said 13th ammendment was correct
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states' rights
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each state had its own constitution and rights
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pardon
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To excuse
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freedmen
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any ex-slaves who were freed by the 13th ammendment
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confiscation
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A higher authority taking land, goods, etc.
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racist
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someone who believes one race is superior to another
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autonomy
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providing for oneself, freedom
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suffrage
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the right to vote
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Who was elected in 1868
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General Grant
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How did most Northerners feel about Reconstruction
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Weary
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The Supreme Court did it's part to do what to Reconstruction
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To end
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Who won the election of 1876
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Ruthoford Hayes
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What other election of the election of 1876 like
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Bush vs. Gore
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What was good about Reconstruction
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It insured abolition against slavery
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What was bad about Reconstruction
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It took a long time, and it didn't solve issues like women's suffrage
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Dubious
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doubtful
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What kind of President was Garfield
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He was an honest man
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What happened in the election of 1884
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There was a lot of mudslinging
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What kind of President of Cleveland
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An honest man, and a man of the economy
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Pendelton Act
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established a Civil servise commission of 3 people
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Spoils System
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awarding jobs for political purposes
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What happened to Garfeild
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Shot in the back
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2 examples of people moving in the 1870-1900 time period
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Canadians moved South, and Europeans traveled to America
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Homestead Act
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Government gave 160 acres of land to any citizen who would farm it for 5 years
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Open Range
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The fencing in of Cattle
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Land Grant
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Land that was given by the government, most was given to railroads
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dispossessed
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People who would never own land
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1 Example of a mail order house
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Sears Roebuck
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Jacob Riis
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the author of How the Other Half Lives
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What laws became common throughout the South
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Jim Crow Laws
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Congress approved what test for immigrants
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literacy
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What resulted from the literacy tes for immigrants
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Cleveland vetoed it, and it wasn't effective until 1920s
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Where was America's Urban marketing center
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Chicago
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Plutocracy
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a society ran by rich
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ostentatious
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rich people showing their money
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uncouth
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unpolite
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mass transit
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mass transportation like railroads or subways
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Shanties
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Poor People houses
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Isolationism
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to separate your country from other countries
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imperialism
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To expand your country
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Open Door Policy
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A foreign policy set up by Hay that gave trade access to China to all
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Who said "We would take Canada"
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T. Roosevelt
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Who said "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the War"
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Hearst
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Who said "a splendid little war"
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John Hay
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The Maine
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sunk off the coast of Cuba, U.S. blamed Spain and declared war
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Rough Riders
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T.R.'s group he took to Cuba with the army
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yellow journalism
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biassed
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Big City Boss
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A boss that ruled by machine and had more power than the mayor. Corrupt
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William Marcy Tweed
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a New York City Boss, caught, then fled to Europe
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Thomas Nast
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a Cartoonist, made fun of Tweed
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graft
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a type of brbery that gave the Bosses power
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Goo-goos
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proposers of good government
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Hazen S Pingree
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A good mayor who beat the Boss in Detroit
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John Roebling
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Built the Brooklyn Bridge
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Louis Sullivan and John W Root
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Built finest sky scrapers in the world
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A Flat
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a small apartment in a poor area
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Why is Grover Cleveland Unique
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Served 2 non consequtive terms
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Who won the election of 1888
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Benjamin Harrison
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Who saved America's gold reserves in 1895
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J.P. Morgan
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What was the First Federal law regulating railroads
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Interstate commerce Commission Act
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Whas the Sherman Anti Turst Act effective after the first 10 years
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No
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collusion
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combining in secret
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3 oppressed races in the West
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1. Indians
2. Latinos 3. Chinese |
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Sherman's Indian Policy
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Moved Indians to different land so they would slowly die
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Dawes Act
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gave each Indian a plot of land
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Battle of Wounded Knee
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Ghost Dance scared soldiers, so they opened fire. Entire tribe of Sioux wiped out
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Who killed the Buffalo
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the railroads
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Corporation
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Buisiness that sells stock
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Consolidation
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Merging of two buisinesses
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Oligopoly
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small number of buisinesses control the market
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Laissez- Faire
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"Hands Off"-government does not interfere with buisiness
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Social Darwinism
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economy has winners and losers, winners make money and live, losers die
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J.P. Morgan
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was banker, became rich, owned United States Steel
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United States Steel
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Owned by Morgan, dominated the Steel buisiness
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