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lincolns 10% plan

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Lincoln issued pardons to those who swore loyalty to Union and accepted abolition of slavery

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freedmans bureau

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Federal agency established in 1865 to aid former slaves in their transition to freedom.

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sharecropping

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A system for renting farmland in which tenant farmers gave landlords a share of their crops, rather than cash, as rent

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black codes

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restrictions on african americans

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the klan

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Founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six former Confederate generals
Used terror to create a climate of fear
Attempted to resist all aspects of Reconstruction, restore white supremacy, and destroy the Republican Party

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plessy vs ferguson

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Upheld Louisiana law requiring segregation of railroad facilities
Argued the “separate but equal” was constitutional under the 14th Amendment

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black reconstruction

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the period of Reconstruction where African Americans took an active role in state and local government

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federal troops

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each district in the south had a commander that forced the law

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pacific rr act

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Gave loans tot eh Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad companies to subsidize construction of rail line between Omaha and the Pacific
Act also gave the companies 10 square miles of the public domain for every mile of track laid

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pools

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agreement to divide up the market and charge equal prices instead of allowing competition to set prices

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lobbying

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private entities (companies, interest groups, professional organizations) that attempt to influence public officials for or against a particular issue

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chicago

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grew due to railroads

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carl sanburg

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ran everything in chicago, grain markets, mail order sales, steel and iron production etc

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social darwinism

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based of darwins theory of evolution, survival of the fittest

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laissez faire capitalism

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The principle that the government should not interfere in the workings of the economy- grew out of Social Darwinism

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vertical vs horizontal integration

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vertical: all activites brought togetehr in one company, carnegie
horizontal: multiple companies of one activity are brought together, rockefeller

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carnegie

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largest steel mill in 1875, used bessemer process

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rockefeller

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Revolutionized old refining (kerosene)

Bought refinery after refinery, creating Standard Oil in 1870

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JP morgan

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Raised the capital necessary for the Railroads to grow.

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standard oil

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all oil was produced by companies ran by rockefeller

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carnegie steel

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largest steel mill, cut costs to raise profits

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plains indians

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blackfeet, crows, lakotas, etc.

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great sioux war

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operation to remove the indians to create a railroad

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medicine lodge treaty

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major southern plains tribes accepted lands Arizona and Oklahoma

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little bighorn
Lt. Colonel George A Custer led him and all his men to there death at battle of big horn by the native americans
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alfred mahan
president of naval war college, sea power is key
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social darwinism
“progress” merged with belief that Anglo-Saxons were superior
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monroe doct
Announced to the world the Western Hemisphere was off limits to European influence and control No more European colonization would occur Stated that the US was final decision making power in the region
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yellow journalsim
Use of sensational stories, embellished reporting, and attention-grabbing headlines to sell papers
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the USS maine
February 15, 1898 USS Maine anchored in Havana Harbor Explosion rips through hull under the waterline after 10 pm Yellow press immediately blamed Spain- submarine?
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Dewey
US Naval commander in pacific in charge of crushing spanish fleet in the Phillipines
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treaty of paris 1898
Spain had to surrender Cuba, cede Puerto Rico and Guam to US, and sell Philippines for 20 million
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yellow fever
14 times as many men died of tropical disease than as a result of battle in Spanish American War
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progressive era
lots of stuff happened, railroads regulated, regulate banks
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jeanette ranklin
first woman elected to house of reps
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NAWSA
worked to gain suffrage for all african american
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19th amendment
The Right of Citizens in the United States to vote shall note be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex
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prohibition
anti saloon league, towns and cities decide if they are dry or wet
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18th amendment
ratification of the rules against alcohol
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NAACP
fight for racial equality
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WEB Debuis
first african male to recieve phd from harvard
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muckrackers
progressive era journalists who wrote articles exposing corruption in city government, business, and industry
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the jungle
book that exposed horrible working conditions in factories
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pure food and drug act
law forbidding sale of impure and improperly labeled food and drugs. Will lead to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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trustbusting
The use of anti trust laws to prosecute and dissolve big businesses (trusts)
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the square deal
Teddy Roosevelt, square even deal for everyone and evey company
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natural recourses
Gifford Pinchot- Natural Resources Advisor to President | Advocated preservation of land and the careful use and management of natural resources
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the panama canal
Phillipe Bunau-Varilla, French engineer and stockholder in Panama route lobbied Congress to get the to approve funding to build Canal in Panama (not Nicaragua!)
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election of 1912
Wilson, republican wins
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bull moose party
teddy Roosevelt plan for election
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long and short term causes of ww1
Increased nationalism around the globe Arms race- consider the colonization of Africa, rubber, coal, iron, etc Most states created professional officer corp and established Universal Military Service Competition on who would have the biggest navy- consider the battleship Secret alliances had become the thing in international politics Instability in the Balkan Peninsula or the “Powder Keg of Europe”- based on religious and ethnic strife
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central powers vs allies
Allies- Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia (signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, separate peace deal before war ends) Romania, Serbia, Greece Central Powers- German, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
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lusitania
sunk by german u-boat, schwiegers
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the u20
captain schwiegers german uboat that sunk the lusitania
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sussex pledge
German promise to stop sinking merchant ships without warning

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