Lecture One- Reconstruction Flashcards
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What was reconstruction?
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An effort made by the North to clean up after the Civil War, re-integrating the Southern States as well as seeing an end to slavery
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Reconstruction
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Process of bringing the south back into the Union. 1865-1877
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Civil War
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Apr 12, 1861 – Apr 9, 1865; War between the Union and Confederacy over issues of states rights and succession
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Devestated South
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Most of the war was fought in the south and the region was gutted. 20% of Southern men were casualties
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Myth of the Lost Cause
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People claiming that the war was fought only over issues of slavery (?)
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End of Slavery
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Ended abruptly, not many options for former slaves due to lack of education
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Southern whites
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Want the south back under Southern (democract) white control; definitely supremist
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Freedman’s Bureau
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Atlanta, Georgia; originally given a tweleve month life span but was expanded thru reconstruction; helped freed slaves and poor whites
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Issues of Reconstruction
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The north is divided on how to deal with the south– conservative republicans want to forgive and forget while radicals aren’t sympathetic. Slavery ended very suddenly leaving many displaced.
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Lincoln
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First president of reconstruction (started it); Came up with the 10% Plan; assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
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10% Plan
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As soon as 10% of a Confederate State made an oath of loyalty to the Union, they could rejoin the Union; rejected by Congress
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Wade-Davis Bill
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1869; aggressive move by congress; a majority of non-Confederate men had to pledge loyalty; they had to pay all war debt; civilian and confederate leaders had to be disenfranchised; Lincoln denied this bill
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Assassination
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The killing of a high official (like the president)
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John Wilkes Booth
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Actor part of a conspriracy to kill Lincoln; succeeded
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Andrew Johnson
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Democrat from TN; against slavery and succession… still a white supremicist; Restoration plan where everyone had to personally apologize to him; considerered the worst US president by historians
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Congress opinion of Johnson
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They want to impeach him from office
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The Black Codes
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Racist laws specifically against African Americans; later ‘vagrancy laws’ and Jim Crow
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Civil Rights Act 1866
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I think this is an amendment
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Fourteenth Amendment
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first legal definition of citizenship
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Congressional Plan
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Southern states have to adopt/enforce 13, 14, 15 amendments
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Fifteenth Amendment
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gives right to vote regardless of race, color, or former condition of servitude
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Tenure of Office Act
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Johnson isn’t allowed to remove any member of his cabinent without Congressional approval; he removes Stanton and is impeached
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Command of Army Act
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To give any military orders, Johnson has to be approved by Grant
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Johnson Impeached
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Broke Tenure of Office Act after removing Stanton
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Scalawags
Southern white person, vote republican, 'traitor'
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Carpet Baggers
Inaccurate term; white northerners coming south permanently; republican
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Freedmen
former slaves, African American, southern
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U.S. Grant
President after Johnson; presidency rocked by scandal, corruption, and incompetence
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Credit Mobilier
French company investing in railroads; all fraudulent; VP is involved but Grant doesn't know anything
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Whiskey Ring
Another scandal; officials taxing for production/distribution of alcohol; Grant didn't know
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Indian Ring
group of officials take advantage of native americans on reservations by increasing trading post prices; Grant didn't know. Obviously.
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Panic of 1873
Not caused by Grant, but blamed on Grant; money issues and depression
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Greenback Question
Discussion of changing to paper currency; talk of printing more money; Grant and Congress are against it, want money backed by gold
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National Greenback Party
third political party, don't do much, just get people talking; want more money printed
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Seward's Folley
He bought Alaska territory & spent way too much; sold by Russians
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Rutherford B. Hayes
the president after Grant; supports big business; uses army to suppress strikes; does very little ; not supported by congress
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Compromise of 1877
passed by Hayes; ended reconstruction; withdrew Union troops
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Segregated schools
done legally but willingly; a law is passed later that makes segregation required
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land redistribution
plantation owners legally taking their land back from those it was given to
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Sharecropping
basically farming on someones land with a loan system; people get stuck in debt
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Klu Klux Klan
founded as a gentlemans club in TN; Nathaniel Bedford Forrest; try to prevent reconstruction; currently seen as a terrorist group
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Enforcement Acts
gives military the ability to arrest KKK; enforced? eh.
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The Compromise of 1877
Rutherford Hayes; union troops withdraw, reconstruction ends; some places are permanently changed, others revert back
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Seperate but equal laws
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Booker T. Washington
The Atlanta Compromise; thinks african americans should take on 'white life style'
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The Atlanta Compromise
Booker T Washington, 'white lifestyle'
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Jim Crow
its illegal to have racist laws; done by real laws and social norms; not technically against black people but basically is
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Maggie Lena
1st Black Bank president
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Industrial Revolution
happening in the north during reconstruction; north was manufacturing. industrial based; has access to labor with people looking for jobs
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New Steel Production Techniques
Bessemer Method, Open Hearth Method by Hewitt
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Henry Bessemer
Steel; Bessemer Method
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Robert Mushet
Iron guy
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Abram S. Hewitt
Open Hearth Method; slower but more controlled
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Steel Industry
Its lit; steel tycoons like Carnegie and JP Morgan
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Transportation
New stuff coming: automobile + trains
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Charles and Frank Duryea
???
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Henry Ford
Ford Automobile, Model T 1908, assembly line
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Self-Made Man
built themself up, american dream style; Carnegie and Rockefellar
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Wilbur and Orville Wright
First 'heavier than air' craft to fly
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Charles Lindbergh
first solo flight across the atlantic
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Taylorism
Fredrick Winslow Taylor, theory of scientific management in factories, boils down to amount of movements
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Rail Barons
Cornelius Vanderbilt & James J. Hill
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Time zones
For more efficient schedules and to reduce train crashes and casualties thereof
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Limited Liability
You only lose what you put into a company
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Ethnic Tensions
due to migration and immigration; old stock americans feel threatened
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Vertical Integration
Buy everything you need to make and sell and ship
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Andrew Carnegie
self made man, arrives poor nobody at 13, buys a steel mill and uses horizontal integration
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J.P. Morgan
wealthy banker, bought Carnegie Steel to make US Steel
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National Railroad Strike
1877; wage cut; no one can break the strike and railroads are running late; Hayes sides with big business; over one hundred strikers killed by the army
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
rail baron
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New Managerial Techniques
new middle class emerging due to manager positions
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Social Darwinism
the rich deserve to be rich, the poor deserve to be poor
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Homestead Strike
Lasts six days; union starts under Henry Clay Frich under Carnegie; he cuts wages twice; after the second cut workers strike and prevent others from working; the workers basically make bombs; army called in
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Russell Conwell
Baptist minister; hard work pays off; everyone had the chance to strike it rich
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Horatio Alger
Most prominent success story; was a minister but after a sexual scandle became a writer; wrote "rags to riches" books
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Monopolies
Owns everything and everyone
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Worker Migration
People from the south need jobs
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Worker Immigration
Foreigners need jobs
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Ethnic Tensions
due to migration and immigration; old stock americans feel threatened
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Organization of Labor
Increasing; want safety, higher wages, more power, and an eight hour day
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National Labor Union
formed by William B Sylvis; first union; falls apart in the Panic of 1873
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Molly Maguires
millitant group of Irish immigrants; use terror tactics; reputation is larger than the group; factory owners use them against workers
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National Railroad Strike
1877; wage cut; no one can break the strike and railroads are running late; Hayes sides with big business; over one hundred strikers killed by the army
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Knights of Labor
Uriah S Stephens starts the Union; Terrence Powder upgrades the group over 700,000 people; bad organization, factions disagreed, the union lost power
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American Federation of Labor
oldest labor union started in 1886 by Samuel Gompers; didn't want women to work because they're paid less; promoted eight hour work day; management and work force unity
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Haymarket Square
Started as a protest, became a strike May 4th, 1886 in Chicago; when police tried to break it up, people died; 10+ dead, 60+ injured, eight anarchists arrested
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Homestead Strike
Lasts six days; union starts under Henry Clay Frich under Carnegie; he cuts wages twice; after the second cut workers strike and prevent others from working; the workers basically make bombs; army called in
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Pullman Strike
Sleeper car factory; Pullman has made a whole town; he cuts wages but doesn't lower anything; people go on strike led by Eugene Debs; try to get railroads to not use any Pullman Sleeper Cars by also striking; goverment steps in
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Eugene Debs
Part of the Pullman Strike; later joins the socialist party
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Americanization
Make them like us; adopt American customs
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Nationalist
Don't like the immigrants
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Assimilation
Want immigrants to be Americanized to fit in
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Nativist Part
Claims to be 'Native Americans' and don't like new people
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Skyscraper
First skyscraper up in Chicago
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Problems in City Life
Crime, Fire, Disease, Pollution
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Tammany Hall
Political machine is controlling donations; very corrupt; run by Boss Tweed; vote for their candidate and get others to
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Chain Stores
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (The A&P); first ten cent store
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Mail Order
Montgomery Ward, traveling salesman
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Western Indians
Reduced by half; Plains Indians suffer the most; buffalo being killed
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Sioux
most powerful tribe; were not always on the same page tho
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Hispanic
blending of Spanish, Mexican, and Indians
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Chinese
west coast of the US; mainly work on railroads and in mines; China Towns forming in cities
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Chinese Exclusion Act
banned immigration and naturalization
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Homestead Act
made during the civil war, people couldn't leave; offered 160 acres for people to sttle and improve the land
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Mining
looking for gold and silver; Boom towns and ghost towns; lot of crime
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The Virginian
book romanticizing cowboy lifestyle
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The Frontier Thesis
Fredrick Jackson Turner; argued the frontier was gone since either side was settled
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The Concentration Policy
moving Indians to the reservation especially Plains Indians; Indians are upset that settlers are disrespecting their land and decimating buffalo; things are escalating
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Buffalo Soldiers
Place for African American soldiers; they shine in the west
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The Sand Creek Massacre
Chief Black Kettle takes the path of peace; civilians massacre 140 people, mostly women and children; Black Kettle joins warpath
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Battle of Little Big Horn
Part of the Great Sioux War; Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull on warpath; Custard dies; trap set by the Sioux
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Sitting Bull
famous Sioux leader; defeated and agrees to go to the reservation; killed after taking part in a Ghost Dance
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Ghost Dance
A religious revival dance; lasts a couple of days; idealistic and violent visions lead to violence against Americans
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Nez Perce
leader wanted to take path of peace, but the young warriors ruined that; Chief Joseph tries to retreat with his people to Canada but they are caught
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Chief Joseph
Leader of Nez Perce; "I will fight no more forever"
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Battle of White Bird Canyon
fought by Nez Perce as they try to get to Canada; they are devastated
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Apache Wars
Southwest Indians; fight with Americans a lot; fight Buffalo soldiers
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Guronimo
Apache soldier, the best; captured and escaped several times; they finally capture his family and send them to Florida
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Dawes Act 1887
160 acres per family, ending shared ownership; Americans want to break up tribes and Americanize; give Native Americans Citizenship
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Wounded Knee
Americans scared because Ghost Dance is taking place; 200 Sioux indians killed
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Transcontinental Railroad
finished in 1869; connected in Promontory Point, Utah
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Barbed Wire
Joseph Glidden & I.L. Ellwood 1873
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Rutherford Hayes
Compromise of 1877 ending reconstruction; supports big business; did little; no party support
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James Garfield
Republican; wants civil service reform; gets shot four months in
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Chester Arthur
replaced Garfield; Pendleton Act; avoided patronage
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Pendleton Act
1st national civil service measure, requiring some federal jobs to have a competency test
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Grover Cleaveland
`Second democrat elected; got a lot of Catholic votes because James Blaine pissed them off; advocated for lower tariff but didn't acheive this
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Benjamin Harrison
Republican; narrowly defeated Cleveland; says he'll take care of monopolies but doesn't
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
not enforced; Goverment can regulate and break up monopolies; courts deliberately misinterpret; won't be used til Teddy Roosevelt
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Interstate Commerce Act
1887; regulated price of railroad; not enforced
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McKinley Tariff
highest tariff in American history & very opposed
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The Grangers
formed after the Civil War; Oliver Kelley; started as a social/self-help group out west; becomes a political party that is very popular in the West
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Oliver Kelley
leader of the Grangers
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Farmer's Alliance
more a co-op; merge to form Populist Party with the Grangers
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Populist Party
The People's Party; Farmers Alliance and Grangers; westerners want someone standing for them; gets miner support; want goverment control of railroads, no national bank, free silver, and improved communication
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"Free Silver"
Upping the gold standard to include silver
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Panic of 1893
started with bankrupcy in Philedelphia and Reading Railroad; chain reaction, bankrupting businesses; stock market crash; 20% of people lose jobs; J.P. Morgan lends money to help
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"Cross of Gold"
William Jennings Bryan; speech about silver and gold standard
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William Jennings Bryan
Cross of Gold; youngest presidential nominee; merged democratic and populist parties; protestant
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Election of 1896
republican party McKinley wins against Bryan; Bryan is first modern campaigner; Populist party collapses
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Dingley Tariff
McKinley raised highest tariff
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Gold Standard Act
ensured gold standard; spits at silver standardists
