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22 Cards in this Set
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Homestead Act 1862 |
Federal government gave free land to People to settle in the west. |
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Civil War Ends 1865 |
Southern economy is destroyed; federal government is strongest. |
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13 Amendment 1865 |
Abolished slavery; 4 million freeman with nothing. |
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14th amendment 1867 |
Defined citizenship; no state may deny due process or equal protection. |
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First transcontinental railroad 1869 |
Connected Western raw materials to the eastern factories for industrialization. |
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15th amendment 1870 |
Voting rights to citizens regardless of race |
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15th amendment 1870 |
Voting rights to citizens regardless of race |
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Chisholm Trail 1870 |
Cattle trail to drive Texas long horn to rail road towns |
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Tammany hall scandal 1871 |
Political machine that received kickbacks; New York; boss tweed. |
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Knights of labor formed 1876 |
Labor union that strived to organize workers for social reforms. |
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Battle of little big horn 1876 |
Indian battle; government took over land. |
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Compromise of 1877 |
Democrats allowed Rutherford to be inaugurated peacefully, in exchange for removal of all federal troops in south |
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Electric light invented 1876 |
Invited by Thomas Edison |
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Jim Crow laws( de hire segregation) enacted 1880's |
African Americans and whites segregated by law in all southern states |
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Tuskegee institute 1881 |
Vocational school created by booker T Washington. Wanted economic progress. Beloved this would lead to political equality. |
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American Red Cross founded |
Founded for national emergency assistance. |
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Chinese exclusion act 1882 |
Prohibited all immigration of all Chinese labored |
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Rockefeller forms standard oil 1882 |
Controlled 90% of U.S. refineries. (Monopoly on oil) |
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Pendleton Civil Service Act 1883 |
Southern whites guaranteed blacks would receive basic education and die process |
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Hay market riot 1886 |
After math of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration |
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Hay market riot 1886 |
After math of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration |
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American federation of labor formed 1886 |
First federal labor union |
