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US History Exam #1 Flashcards

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Thirteenth Amendment

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ended slavery

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Fourteenth Amendment

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granted citizenship to freedmen

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Fifteenth Amendment

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right to vote could not be denied on account of race

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freed blacks were unanimous in their

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desire for independence from white control

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Education in the South

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reached over 10 percent of the school age population of former slaves

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faction of the republicans who wanted to punish the confederacy

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Radicals

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Plessy v Ferguson

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separate but equal

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Black codes

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set of regulations that promoted white supremacy in the south

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Recent historian believe that blacks in reconstruction

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gained significant improvements

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People in the west before white arrival did not include

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freed slaves

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THe homestead act

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granted land to settlers willing and able to farm for five years

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Morrill land grant college act was designed to

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promote agricultural and techinacal education

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The Grangers

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Western Farmers

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Sand Creek Massacre

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American forces slaughtered peaceful Cheyenne

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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wrote a book about the mistreatment of native americans

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Native americans maintained resistance to euro american settler by

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maintaining their culture

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Dawes Severalty act

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created to force assimilation of Indians into society

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Frontier Thesis by Frederick Jackson Turner

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was about the western frontier. Whitemen= heroes

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WHy assimilate native americans?

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it was in their “best interest”

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first big gusiness in US

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railroads

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laissez-faire

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no government influence in government. Liked by Conservative capitalists

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Trustinvented by

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Rockefeller

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Great Uprising

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strike against railroad companies

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Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois and Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, demonstrated that the Supreme Court in 1886 was

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primarily conservative and supported big business

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AFL excluded unskilled workers because

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they were weak and unreliable

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Unions accepted women?

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false, they were not accepted most of the time

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wome who did laundry and different pieces did

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piecework

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by 1900 southern and eastern europeans dominated

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true

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Many immigrants came to the US planning to stay temporarily

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true

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Gilded Age

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1877-1900, amazing achivements distracted from inequality and poverty and social issues

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Great Migration

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African Americans left the sourth in Huge numbers 1890-1910

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Tenements

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Multiple family dwellings 4-6 stories poor quality

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streetcars

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inadequate street cleaning

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political machines

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powerful urban political organizations that mobilized large blocs of working class and immigrant voters (corrupt and illegal activity)

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Boss Tweed

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ran political machine in New York

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Taminy Hall

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Biggest political machine, located in New York

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Immigrants and political machines

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recieved help from political machines and were seenas bad by many americans

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Nativism

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anti immigration views and sentiments

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Urban Reform

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Women’s suffrage, New woman (describing educated, independent, and politically and socially active women)

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Social Darwinism

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Poor are poor because they aren’t “fit”

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Settlement House

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institutions established in cities to help poor provided basic education

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Jane Addams

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founded most famous settlement house

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Hull House

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Jane Addams’ settlement house

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City Beautiful movement

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advocated comprehensive planning and grand redesign of urban space

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Chicago’s World Fair

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Columbian Exposition marked by the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival to the new world to show off the rebuilt CHicago

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White City

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Fourteen main buildings designed and beautifully landscaped with featuring waterways and reflecting pools

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People’s party populists

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farmers aliiance turned into populists

Wanted gov’t intervention in the economy

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William Jennings Bryant

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populist party presidential candidate

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Reconsturction

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1865-1877 hwere seceded states were controlled by the federal gov’t

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10% plan

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lincoln’s plan that once 10% of voters swore allegiance to union, the state could be readmitted

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freedmans bureau

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set up to help freedmen

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Radical Republicans

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anti slavery and had many scuttles with pres

put states into 5 military districts and led reconstruction

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wade davis bill

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1864 gave provisional gov’t to southern states and radicals pushed this bill through congress

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Andrew Johnson

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pres after lincoln. democrat who vetod many radical bills was on trial for impeachment

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JOhnson’s plan

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mix of amnesty (lincoln) and wade davis bill

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restoration

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johnson called his plan restoration rather than reconstruction

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Black COdes

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stated legislators in the south passed these to enforce white supremacy

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Civil Rights act

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included blacks as citizens was vetod by johnson but overturned by congress

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Radical reconstruction

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14th amendment gave blacks the right to vote; COngressional plan put south into 5 military districts

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military reconstruction act

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put south into 5 military districts where ppl were registered to cote on new state constituents 1867

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Tenure of office act

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pres needed approval from the senate in order to remove office holders 1867-1887

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Carpet baggers

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white men from the north who went south to farm

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Scalawags

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former whigs, disliked democrats and lived in isolated areas with little of no slaves

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KKK

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Used terrorism to bar blacks from voting

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Panic of 1873

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undermined support for reconstruction; financial crisis 1873-1879 closed railroad company Jay Cooke and CO

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Mississippi plan

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made by democrats to overthrow Republicans in Mississippi by threats of violence and suppression or purchase of black voters

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Redeemers

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powerful conservative oligarchy took control in south aka Bourbans

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COmpromise of 1877

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Congress made special electoral commission to break deadlock between rutherford B Hayes and Samuel T Tilden in pres election

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New SOuth

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supported vigorous industrial economy in the south; economic diversification

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Jim Crow

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laws enforced racial segregation in the south

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Pacific Railway Act

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created the union pacific and the central pacific railways

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UNion Pacific

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went west from nebraska

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central pacific

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went from california to the sierra nevada mts

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prmontory point

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where the central and union railways met in Utah

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Transcontinental Railroad

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Leland Stanford put in a golden spike joining the two railroads at promontory point

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Great Plains

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Stretched from texas up to the dakotas

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Exodusters

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ex slaves who worked to get land, work, better living conditions, and less violence

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Mormons

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escaped persecution and went to Utah and the great Salt lake

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The Grange

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against powerful railroads

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Cowboy

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dangerous jobs, were white, blakc and hisoanic

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Long drive

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1000+ miles from Texas to the plains

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Sand Creek Massacre

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200 cheyenne Indians kille in COlorado

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Battle of Little Big Horn

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Cheyenne, Sioux, and arapho beat ct, George A Custer

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Dawes act

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forced assimilation; gave land to families not tribes, coudn’t sellland for 25 years

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wounded knee massacre

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Open fire on Sioux indians 200-300 died

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Frontier thesis

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Turner; Frontier was + on shaping character and institutions in the US

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Corporation

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businesses owned by people who buy shares of stock in the company

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Monopoly

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control of an industry or market by one corp

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andrew Carnegie

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steel

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vertical integration

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controlling all levels of manufacturing from production to selling

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horisontal integration

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One company buys out all competition

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Robber Barons

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Big business leaders. Term is suggesting they grew rich by devious business practices

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Trust

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an umbrella corporation

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depression

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contraction of economic growth

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CHild labor

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paid less, no education, exposed to industrial hazards

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Blacklist

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a list of names who companies refused to hire becuase they were “troublemakers”

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Socialism

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theory rejecting capitalism and advocated common ownership of propert and social and economic equity

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CHinese exclusion act

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1882 barred hcinese immigration for 10 years and was renewed several times
ended in 1943

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knights of labor

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founded in 1869 labor organization that accepted all workers in 1880s became worlds largest industrial union

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haymarket incident

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May 4 1886 bomb goes of in haymarket square chicago by group of police causing fear of worker unions and anarchy

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