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12 Cards in this Set
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Moderate Reconstruction
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-Black American civil equality
-No right to vote -Repair Union as quickly and as painlessly as possible |
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Radical Reconstruction
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-Black Americans Right to vote
-Black Americans civil equality -Punish the South -51% plan |
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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-"Seperate but equal" did not violate 14th amendment.
-Justice John Marshal Harlan disagreed. |
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Sharecropping
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-Solution to shortage of labor
-Land rented to freedmen -Give portion of crops to owners. -Draught caused it to fail. -Owners added charges to make freedmen fall into debt |
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Compromise of 1877
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-Samuel Tilden (Democrat)
-Hayes (Republican) -20 Electoral votes in dispute -Electoral commission -7 Democrats, 7 Republicans. 1 independent replaced by 8th republican. -Democrats agree: no protest if US troops not used to enforce reconstruction. -Redeemers back in power, end of reconstruction |
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14th ammendment
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-Gave freedmen the right to vote.
-Reduced the number of represetnatives a state coudl send to Congress in proportion to the number of state's male citizens denied the right to vote. -Encouraged southern states to give freedmen the right to vote rather than lose representation in Congress. |
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Assimilation
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-Cultural absorbtion of one into another.
-"Kill the indian and save the man" -Adopted by Government officials. -Laws forcing indians to abandon traditional appearances -Long hair cut -Indian religious practices outlawed -Indian schools -English to be spoken only, proper clothes and american names. |
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Wounded Knee Massacre
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-Ghost Dance religion and Wovoka proclaimed white settlers would vanish, buffalo would return, and traditional Indian way sof life would revive.
-"Ghost Shirts" stopped bullets -Big foot and Red Cloud caught up with by US troups. -Confusion with rifles. -300 Sioux killed |
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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-Following Battle of Rosebud
-2000 Indians fleeing agencies at Little Bighorn River. -Crazy Horse fights off General George Armstrong Custer. -"Custer's last stand" |
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Dawes Act
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-160 acres of free land to Native American Families
-Private land owners (non-nomadic lifestyle) -Method of assimilation -failed. |
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Alaska Purchase
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-Russia fears territorial dispute
-US Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated purchase fo r $7.2 Mil -Klondike Gold Rush |
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Open Range
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-Government policy allowing cattle ranchers to use public land as free grazing land
-Crucial to the cattle boom. -Ended by the invention of Barbed wire. |