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Final Flashcards

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John Calhoun

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Vice President during Jackson’s presidency, call the 1828 tariff an abomination, advocate of secession

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John Brown

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An abolitionist, May 24 and massacred five proslavery people. He started the riots and is the reason it was called bloody Kansas, Harpers Ferry

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Stephen Douglas

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Backed by Northern Democrats steered Kansas and Nebraska act to victory

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Henry Clay

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House speaker promoted the American system and formed the wig party

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Charles Sumner

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Led the radical Republicans

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John Fremont

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American military officer, first candidate of anti-slavery republican party for office of president

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William seward

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Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Arranged for the US to buy Alaska

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Roger Taney

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Supreme Court Chief Justice, declared Lincoln went beyond his constitutional power

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Scalawag

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White southerners who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War

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Sharecropper

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A system in which landowners give farmworkers a landslide and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise

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Infrastructure

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The basic facilities services and installations needed for the functioning of the community

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Tenant farmer

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A system in which a farm owner supplies there tools and rent farmland for cash

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14th amendment

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Anyone born or naturalized in the US or citizens and get equal legal protection

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15th amendment

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Prohibit people from being denied voting rights due to their diversity

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Steerage

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A cheap accommodation in a ships cargo hold

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Laissez-faire

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policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering

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Munn vs Illinois

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Case were Supreme Court upheld state regulation of railroad for the benefit of farmers thus establishing the right of government to regulate private industry to serve the public interest

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Pendleton civil service act

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Law that establishes a bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to government jobs by means of merit system

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Free enterprise

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Economical or political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a free we competitive market to the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of government intervention/regulation

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Centralize

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To be in charge or for everything to work around you

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Tenement

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A multifamily urban dwelling usually overcrowded and dirty

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Labor union

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A group of workers to stay to gather and protect each other’s rights

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Tariff of 1828

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Tariff of abominations, tariff increase that seemed to southerners to be enriching the north at their expense

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Patronage

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And office holders power to appoint people

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Alexander bell

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Invented the telephone

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Anarchists

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Oppose all forms of government

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Scabs

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Workers who would replace people on strike

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Samuel Morse

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Invented the telegraph to place long orders quickly

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George Pullman

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Industrialist who manufactured cars

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Election of 1864

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Lincoln was seeking a second term, used Andrew Johnson as vice president candidate to get water state Democratic votes this was Lincolns biggest mistake. He ran against McClellan

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Sherman antitrust act

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Law intended to prevent creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trust that interfered with free trade

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Pullman strike

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Doing the panic of 1893 Hohman’s company laid off more than half of it’s employees in cups of wages without cutting housing run. They went on strike and were replaced by strikebreakers. It turned violent and troops were sent in and sided with Paulman. He fired the strikers and railroad blacklisted many

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Popular sovereignty

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Principle that authority of the state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through elective reps, who are the source of all the power

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Successes of the reconstruction

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Restore the US as a unified nation 1314 and 15th amendments were in place and some pledged loyalty to the US government

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Asian immigration early 1800s

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Came in small numbers many for gold and helped build railroads

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Oregon Trail

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A route from Independence Missouri to Oregon city used by pioneers traveling to Oregon territory. They wanted to set up schools to convert natives to Christianity

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Communication revolution

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Morse invented the telegraph
Bell invented the telephone
Shoals invented the typewriter

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Friedmans bureau

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Federal agency to help slaves after the Civil War

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Adams Onis Treaty

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Spain gives Florida to the US

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National Republicans

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No it is anti-Jacksonian party president supporters

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Industrial growth and distribution of wealth

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Industry and stockholders continue to grow in the north. The south is recovering from work. Labor activist seek equal distribution of wealth

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Election of 1860

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Lincoln won do the split party in the Democratic Party

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Rutherford B Hayes 1867

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Republican candidate in 1876 lost the popular vote but one electoral votes. Compromise of 1877 was a series of congress measures that Democrats demand with drawl of troops and south, money for south infrastructure, appointment of conservative Democrat in cabinet

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Radical reconstruction act of 1867

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Didn’t recognize state government formed under the reconstruction plans. Split 10 confederate states into five military districts, the states need to readmit as a state

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