Chapter 15-16 Test Flashcards
(52 cards)
April 14, 1865
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Reconstruction Era
1865 (end of Civil War) through 1877 (election of President Rutherford B. Hayes)
May 10, 1869
East meets West at Promontory Point, Utah
1876
The Centennial celebration of the United States (and the signing of the DOI on July 4, 1776)
General Oliver Howard
Directed the Freedmen’s Bureau (established by Congress in March 1865) which distributed food to millions of former slaves, established schools, and made an effort to settle blacks on their own land
W.E.B DuBois
Great African American scholar. He thought Reconstruction was an effort by freed blacks (and their white allies) to create a more democratic society in the South, and it was responsible for many valuable social innovations
Negro Rule
The term southern whites used when complaining about the percentage of black office holders
Popular vote in 1868
First time that black men were allowed to vote, without their votes, Johnson would’ve stayed in office and Grant wouldn’t have been elected
Grantism
Scandal
Credit Mobilier Scandal
The heads of the Credit Mobilier construction company used their positions as Union Pacific stockholders to steer large contracts to their company which resulted in millions
Whiskey Ring
A group of distillers and some of Grant’s officials that were cheating the government out of whiskey taxes by reporting false numbers
Indian Ring
Secretary of war, William W. Belknap, accepted bribes to retain an Indian-post trader in office
Green backers
Opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency
Tilden-Hayes election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes was the underdog and used his effective method of “waving the bloodied shirt” for campaigning. He would bash the Democrats and Southerners to gain the North’s approval. The democrats approached Hayes and offered him a deal: if he agreed to pull military out of the south and end the reconstruction, no matter the voting outcome they would make him president
New South
White southerner "home rule" Industry expanded dramatically Widows from war were working long hours Share cropping Jim Crow
Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute
He was the chief spokesman for commitment to education, founder and president of TI
Born into slavery
Believed that blacks should assimilate, go to school, and learn a trade to fit in
Atlanta Compromise
Controversial philosophy of race religions that became widely known. Washington outlined this’s and stated that the goal for blacks should be to fit in, not challenge the system
Jim Crow/ Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court
Case involving Louisiana law that required segregated seating on the railroads.
Court ruled that separate accommodations did not deprive blacks of equal rights as long as the accommodations were equal…beginning of separate schools, drinking fountains, shops
Native American diversity
Pushed off their lands and onto reservations because of buffalo extinction. Taken advantage of by treaty Chiefs
Chinese diversity
Americans grew envious of the success the Chinese were having in the gold rush and passed laws that discriminated against them.
Many worked on railroad or in laundry business.
What is a Chinese tong
Secret societies often involved in criminal activity
“Coolie”
Indentured Chinese servants whose conditions were close to slavery
Californios
Hispanic residents of California
Hispanic diversity
Afraid that America would take the land passed on from first Spanish settlers
Became lower end of working class
