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Andrew Johnson

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First president impeached,and agreed with Lincoln that the states never really left the union

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Indian territory

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The largest unsettled farmland in Oklahoma

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American federation of labor goals

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Pushed for closed shops a 8 hour work day and recognition of bargaining

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Homestead act

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Millions of acres were given away free in the west to anyone that would claim land and live there for five years

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Problems for workers during the industrialization

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Low wages long hours and difficult working conditions

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Lincolns 10% plan

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When10% of the voting population took an oath of loyalty established government it would be recognized was The president at the end of the Civil War in the beginning of the reconstruction

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Goals of Indian reservation

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Design to civilize and Christian the Indians

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Thomas Edison

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Invented/improved the phonograph motion picture electric generator dictaphone light bulb battery and he also supplied electric power to New York City wizard of Menlo Park

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Ulysses s. Grant

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After Andrew Johnson was impeached he became president over an area of unpresidential growth and corruption

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Union Pacific RR

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Began laying track for the transcontinental railroad west ward of Omaha Nebraska

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th president of the U.S he was in office for the first part of the civil war reconstruction, he did not consult congress regarding reconstruction, he also passed the Pacific railway act

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13th amendment

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Raitified in December 1865 outlawed slavery

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Central Pacific RR

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Began laying track for the transcontinental railroad east ward out of Sacramento Nebraska

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Freedmans bureau

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Former abolitionists (carpetbaggers) risked their lives to help southern freedmen

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14 th amendment

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Granted whoever was born in the U.S citizenship

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Paha sapa

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Black hills

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15 th amendment

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Allowed slaves to vote

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John D Rockefeller

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Standard oil company, horizontal integration he also was a robber baron

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Battle of little big horn

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It Was a Native American win also Custers last stance

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Ghost dance movement

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In honor of wovoke, it scared the army

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How long it took to travel west by land and by boat

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Land- 2-3months

Boat-4-6 months

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Promontory point, UT

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May 10th 1869, the golden spike was driven into the ground to complete the transcontinental railroad

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Dawes severality act

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To break up reservations into individual land and for Indians to learn individualism

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Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo

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Ended the Mexican war and forced Mexico to give us California and New Mexico.

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Red cloud

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Had a quote that said whites can only keep their promises about taking Native American land

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Donner party

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They went west and got stuck in a snowstorm and resorted to cannibalism

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Battle of wounded knee

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The last battle of the Indian wars

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Aroostook war

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The only war declared by a state Maine

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Wade Davis plan

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50% of the voting population had to take and ironclad and it was designed to punish the south

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Manifest destiny

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It was our belief that it was our mission to rule Ocean to ocean

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Pony express

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It took 10 days to deliver mail on horseback

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Vertical integration

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When a large company buys every step of the process example dominoes buying a wheat farm a cow farm and a dough factory

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Horizontal integration

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Buying all of your competition example DiFelice buying Carlini’s

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SamuelGompers

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First AFL president

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Unions

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Groups of workers that for righs in their industries

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Civil War amendments

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1314 and 15 amendment

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Standard oil

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Owned by John D Rockefeller

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US steel

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The first billion-dollar company and was owned by Andrew Carnegie

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Causes of the Civil War

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state rights

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Sandcreek massacre

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A slaughter of surrendered Cheyenne Aprapaho Indians

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George Armstrong Custer

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Wasn’t an Indian fighter who was overconfident and was killed in the battle of the Little Big Horn

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Reasons for rapid industrialization

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Natural resources in large labor force

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Benefits of steel over iron

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Iron is brittle steel is light and more malleable

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