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87 Cards in this Set
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What is the period after the civil war that consisted of putting the country back together?
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Reconstruction
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What years are given for Reconstruction?
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1865-1890
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Reconstruction had many problems to deal with. These problems were not only caused from wartime, but also from the ________________.
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Lincoln assassination
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There were seven main difficulties with Reconstruction:
1. ________- costs of war; 2. ________________- were forced to put army in south; 3. ___________- destroyed crops or never planted; 4. ____________- no money, no name, no credit, etc.; 5. _____________-destroyed or desolate; 6. _____________- destroyed or broken down (land in the South); 7. ____________- impeachment |
1. money/economy
2. southern resistance 3. agriculture 4. former slaves 5. factories 6. railroads 7. President Johnson |
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Who becomes president after Lincoln's assassination?
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Johnson
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What was the first act of government during Reconstruction?
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deal with the former slaves
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What were the four main points that the Freedman's Bureau took care of?
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provide money, food, etc.
clothing schooling land (over time) |
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How did the former slaves meet their IMMEDIATE needs?
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1. They headed west for land
2. They headed north for jobs 3. However, most stayed in south to become experienced sharecroppers or tenant farmers. |
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After the war, what three amendments changed life for former slaves?
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13- freed
14- citizenship 15- (supposedly, not in reality) right to vote |
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What two jobs were created by the government to give jobs to the unemployed?
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railroad
construction |
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What was Lincoln's plan before assassination? What was it called after?
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10% of the voting southerners must swear allegiance
The Wade-Davis Bill: 50% |
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After the war who was not involved in the govt?
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southerners
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Who appointed Southern politicians?
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northerners
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What were northerners that came to the south to oversee Reconstruction called?
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carpetbaggers
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Things taken during war (either captured, stolen, etc.) are called _______________________.
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contrabands
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What regulated affairs of emancipated slaves (for example: contracts for one year)?
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Black Codes
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A primitive welfare agency to freedmen and white refugees...
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Freedman's Bureau
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Required 50% of state's voters to take allegiance and provide stronger safeguards for emancipation...
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Wade Davis Bill
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Decreed that reintegrated states' voters (10%) had to take an oath of allegiance...
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10% plan
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Founder of the Freedman's Bureau...
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Oliver O. Howard
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President after Lincoln's assassination, made the Reconstruction Proclamation...
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Andrew Johnson
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Thought seceded states should be restored to union...
Believed south should be punished before rejoining the Union... |
moderate Republicans
radical Republicans |
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Laws designed to regulate the affairs of emancipated blacks...
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Black Codes
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A serio-comedy of errors delivered in Johnson's speeches...
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"swing around the circle"
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Freed slaves...
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13th Amendment
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(Supposedly) guaranteed equal accommodations in public places and prohibited racism on juries...
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Civil Rights Acts
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A radical leader in the Senate...
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Charles Sumner
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Unsurped certain functions of president but set up a martial regime of legalizing...
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Military Reconstruction Act
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Case that ruled military could not try civilians if civil courts were open...
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ex parte Miligan
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Blacks gained right to vote...
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15th Amendment
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Whites that resented success of black legislatures; driven to violence...
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Ku Klux Klan
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Federal troops were forced to stamp out "lash law" ex: KKK
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Force Acts
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Required president to secure senate approval before removing appointments...
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Tenure of Office Act
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The secretary of war who was a secret spy for radicals...
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Edwin Stanton
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A treaty with Russia that gained Alaska for the US for $7.2 million...
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Seward's Folly
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Led radical Reconstruction; president after Johnson...
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Protested Emancipation Proclamation; lost to Grant in election...
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Horatio Seymour
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Senator...
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Jim Fisk
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American railroad developer...
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Jay Gould
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Editor of the NY Tribune...
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Horace Greely
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In 1896, ruled in favor of racial segregation- "separate but equal"...
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Speaker of House...
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James G. Blain
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President between 1877-1881, elected by only one vote...
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Rutheford B Hayes
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Lost by only one vote to Hayes...
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Samuel J. Tilden
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Second assassinated president, 1881
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James A Garfield
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Only president to serve nonconsecutive terms 1893- 1897...
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Grover Clevland
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1833-1901, Known for McKinley Tariff and $1 billion in spending...
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Benjamin Harrison
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A small group of men who controlled NYC finances, ran by Will Tweed...
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Tweed ring
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A scandal involving union pacific railroad and credit mobilier...
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credit mobilier
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Developed the electoral college of today, settled dispute in 1876 election...
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Compromise of 1877
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Most federal employees are held up by merit system...
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Pendleton Act
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Labor union lockout between strikers and Carnegie Steel Co.
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Homestead Steel Strike
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Who gave civil war pardons?
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Lincoln
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What local laws were enforced to keep black from voting?
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Jim crow laws
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What were examples of Jim Crow laws?
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literacy test, property, poll tax, grandfather clause
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What is one famous estate that was produced during the economic boom?
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Biltmore Estate
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Who invented not only the light bulb, but also the grid system?
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Edison
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What four things did labor unions fight for? What was the most important?
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min wage
40 hr work week workers comp* child labor laws |
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Who were the new immigrants?
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Italians
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What new things did immigrants bring with them?
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mob, alcohol, food, leisure activities
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What is called when a group favors Americans over immigrants?
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nativism
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Who were the leading nativists?
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the church
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Who formed his own college after being turned down at Harvard to donate money?
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Leland Stanford
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Whose son built the Biltmore?
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Who invented the telephone?
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Alexander G Bell
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Who was the first billionaire, made his money using the Bessemer steel process to manufacture steel?
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Andrew Carnegie
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Who was in the oil business and invented trusts?
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J.D. Rockefeller
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Who merged General Electric and formed the United States Steel Corporation?
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JP Morgan
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What is a group of businesses that run into one business; no control of price or production?
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trust
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What is a group of business that associated together to get control of production of product and therefore prices?
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cartel
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What is it called when only one business rules its industry?
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monopoly
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What is "God given wealth"; the belief that you should give away what money you have to philanthropy?
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gospel of wealth
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Who founded Tuskegee University and was the first African American to earn a degree from Harvard?
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Booker T Washington
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Who were the two co founders of the NAACP?
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WEB DuBois
Mary White Ovington |
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Who created the first American settlement house known as the Hull House?
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Jane Addams
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Who created the idea of survival of the fittest?
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Charles Darwin
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Who wrote Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer?
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Mark Twain
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What is it called when one likes Americans more than immigrants?
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nativism
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Term used to describe the influx of southern and eastern European immigrants.
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new immigration
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Social Darwinism; the strongest survive.
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social gospel
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Women's rights activists advised the nation to cut back on alcohol.
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Women's Christian Temperance Movement
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Donating to improve human life for the betterment of all people.
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philanthropy
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Govt protection on an invention.
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patent
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Govt protection on a written product, art, CD.
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copyright
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The first millionaire.
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John Jacob Astor
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The first black millionaire.
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Madame CJ Walker
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Who were the southerners who helped carpetbaggers?
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scalawags
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