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AP US History > Period 6 (1865-1898) Flash Cards (Chapters 15 - 17) Mini MCQ 1/6/23 > Flashcards

Period 6 (1865-1898) Flash Cards (Chapters 15 - 17) Mini MCQ 1/6/23

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Free Labor Vision

Chapter 15

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Emancipated African-Americans would enjoy the same opportunities for advancement as northern workers, would labor more productively than they had as slaves.

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Freedman’s Bureau

Chapter 15

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An agency established by Congress to attempt to establish a working free labor system
Supposed to establish schools, provide aid to the poor and aged, settle disputes between whites and blacks and among the freed people, and secure for former slaves and white Unionist equal treatment before the courts

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Sharecropping

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Allowed each African-American family to rent a part of a plantation, with the crops divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.

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Crop Lien

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A system that forced farmers to take up the growing cotton and pledge a part of the crop as collateral (property the creditor can seize if a debt is not paid)

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Black Codes

Chapter 15

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Apart of Johnson’s Reconstruction policy were laws passed by the new southern governments that attempted to regulate the lives of the former slaves.
PROS: Granted blacks certain rights, such as legalized marriage, ownership of property, and limited access to the courts
CONS: denied them the rights to testify against whites, to serve on juries or in state militias, or to vote.

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Radical Republicans

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Fully embraced the expanded powers of the federal government born during the Civil War –> Protect the rights of all Americans
Most Prominent (Leaders?) : Charles Sumner & Thaddeus Stevens
^ Both had been outspoken foes of slavery and defenders of black rights

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Civil Rights Bill of 1866

Chapter 15

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It defined all persons born in the United States as citizens and spelled out rights they were to enjoy without regard to race. – Connected to the 14th Amendment

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14th Amendment

Chapter 15

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Principle citizenship for all persons born in the United States and the rights for all Americans

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Reconstruction Act

Chapter 15

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Temporarily divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments with black men given the right to vote

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Tenure of Office Act

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Barring the president from removing certain officeholders, including cabinet members with the consent of the Senate. Johnson considered this an unconstitutional restriction on his authority

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Impeachment

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Presented charges against Johnson to the Senate, which had to decide whether to remove him from office.

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15th Amendment

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Prohibited the federal and state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote because of race.

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Cartpetbaggers

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People who had packed all their belongings in a suitcase and left their homes in order to reap the spoils of office in the South

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Scalawags

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White Republicans who had been born in the South, considered them as traitors to their race and region

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Ku Klux Klan

Chapter 15

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Served as a military arm of the Democratic Party in the South
A terrorist organizations who killed white Republicans (sometimes African-Americans)

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Enforcement Acts

Chapter 15

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Outlawed terrorist societies and allowed the president to use the army against them.

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Civil Rights Act of 1875

Chapter 15

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Outlawed racial discrimination in places of public accommodation

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Railroads

Chapter 16

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Developed into a system that allowed for faster transportation of goods and people

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Trusts

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Legal devices whereby the affairs of serveral rival companies were managed by a single director

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Andrew Carneigie

Chapter 16

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Dominated the steel industry

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John D Rockefeller

Chapter 16

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Dominated the oil industry

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Vertical Intergration

Chapter 16

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One that controlled every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution

Carnegie & Rockefeller

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Horizontal Expansion

Chapter 16

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Buying out competing oil refiners

Rockefeller

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Battle of the Little Bighorn

Chapter 16

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The Sioux and Cheyenne warriors were defending tribal land in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory

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Dawes Act

Chapter 16

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Broke up land of nearly all tribes into small parcels to be distributed to Indian familes, with the remainder auctioned off to white perchasers

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Ghost Dance

Chapter 16

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Religious revitalization campaign reminiscent of the pan-Indian movements led by earlier prohepts. Fortold a day when whites would disappear, the buffalo would return, and Indians could once again practice their customs

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Wounded Knee Massacre

Chapter 16

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Widely applauded in the press
Opened fire on Ghost Dancers, killing between 150 and 200 Indians
Revealed the limits on Americans’ efforts to seek in the West the freedom to practice nonmainstream relgions

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Gilded Age

Chapter 16

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“gilded” means covered with a layer of gold, but it also suggest that the glittering surface masks a core of little real vale and is therefore deceptive –> Immigration to America for freedom –> controlled and harsh labor/working condidtions
Increased industrial economy but poltical corruptions

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Gold Standard

Chapter 16

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Paper currency became exchangeable for gold at a fixed rate

Populist wanted to change it to the silver standard

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Civil Service Act of 1883

Chapter 16

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Crreated a merit system for federal employees, with appoinment via competitive examinations rather than political influence

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Interstate Commerce Commission

Chapter 16

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Ensured that the rates railroads charged farmers and merchants to transport their goods were “resonable” and did not offer more favorable treatement to some shippers.

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Sherman Antitrust Act

Chapter 16

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Banned all combinations and practices that restrained free trade
Outlawed contracts/trust

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Social Darwinism

Chapter 16

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Evolution was as natural a process in human society as in anture, and government must not interfere.
Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection to society; used the concept of the “survival of the fittest” to justify class distinctions and to explain poverty.

Top people feel superior because they had better qualities

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Liberty of Contract

Chapter 16

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The process in which individuals and groups form contracts without interference with the government

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Great Railroad Strike

Chapter 16

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When workers protesting a pay cut paralyzed rail traffic in much of the country, militia united tried to force them back to work

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Kights of Labor

Chapter 16

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The first group to try to organize unskilled workers as well as skilled
Fought for better pay and reform in the conditions of labor

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Social Gospel

Chapter 16

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Movement originated as an efoort to reform Protestan churches by expanding their appeal in poor urban neighborhoods and making them more attentive to the era’s social ills.
Helping the needy

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Haymarket Affair

Chapter 16

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A person threw a bomb into the crowd, killing a policemand. The police panicked and opened fire

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Populist Party

Chapter 17

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It sought to speak for all the producing classes
Silver Standard
Wanted the railaroads to be owned by the government rather than private owenership

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New Immigrants

Chapter 17

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Members of distinct “races” whose lower leve of civilization eplained everything from their willingness to work for substandard wages to supposed inborn tendency toward criminal behavior
Irish, Italian, and Eastern Europe

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Booker T Washington

Chapter 17

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Urged African Americans to adjust to segregation and abandon agitation for civil and political rights
Created schools for African Americans

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Americans Federation of Labor

Chapter 17

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Centered on sectors of the ecnomy like printing and bulding construction that were dominated by small competitive businesses

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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Chapter 17

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Moved from demanding the prohibition of alcoholic beverages (blamed for leading men to squander their wages on drink and treat their wives abusively) to a comprehensive program of economic and political reform, including the right to vote

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Jane Addams

Other

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Resented the prevailing expectataion that a woman’s life should be governed by what she called the family claim.
Founded the Hull House

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Hull House

Other

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Founded by Jane Addams
Settlement house devoted to improving the lives of the immigrant poor especially women

46
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Homestead Stike

Other

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Violent dispute between the workers at the Carnegie Steel Company due to the lowering of their pay

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Laissez Faire

Other

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Hand off form of labor
No government intervention
Pay workers what the owner wanted to pay them

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Gospel of Wealth

Other

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Andrew Carnegie believed that the wealthy Americans should use their mind/money in order to beenfit the society
Help out the needy

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