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American History Reconstruction to Industrialization
Flash cards on important peoples and terms from 1865 to 1900
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Undergraduate 1
09/20/2009

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US Presidents 1865 - 1900
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Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant, Ruthford B. Hayes

James Garfield, Chester Arthur

Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison

Grover Cleveland, William McKinley

 

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Thaddeus Stevens
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Leader of the Radical Republicans who opposed Lincolns plan and wanted harsher punishments for the southern governments for treason

 

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Charles Sumner
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Radical Republican leader

 

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William H. Seward
Definition
Seceretary of State who bought Alaska and served under Lincoln and Johnson
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Samuel Tilden
Definition
Democrat Nominee 1876
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George A. Custer
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Infamous American general who died at the battle of little big horn

 

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Sitting Bull
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One of the leaders of the Indian wars and gathered tribes together to fight as one, one of the leaders in the battle of little big horn

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Andrew Carnegie
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Steel businessman who worked his workers extra hard, made millions in steel, and gave to charities. Sold his steel company to J. P. Morgan

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John D. Rockefeller
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Known as the richest man in American History, who started the Standard Oil Company and became America’s first billionaire

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J.P. Morgan
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Banking tycoon who merged his steel business with Carnegie’s and formed General Electric

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Thomas A. Edison
Definition
Invented the Lightbulb
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Samuel Clemens
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Wrote many books during the time period that displayed the current era with subtle humor

 

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Samuel Gompers
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American labor union leader who led the AFL  

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Henry George
Definition

land belongs to everyone equally and supported a land value tax

 

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Charles Darwin
Definition
Founder of the Theory of Evolution
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William Jennings Bryan
Definition
Democratic Nominee 1896, supported the Populist Party and the silver standard
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Booker T. Washington
Definition
Tuskagee founder, Washington led the Atlanta Expedition which peacefully sought black integration into society over time (highly favored)
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W.E.B. Du Bois
Definition
Civil Rights activist who was highly involved with the integration of blacks
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Herbert Spencer
Definition
"Survival of the Fittest" Social Darwinism
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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Inspired the great American movement westward with his essay on the right of the American to spread west

 

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Tom Watson
Definition
Georgian Congressman who openly supported the KKK
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Groucho Marx
Definition
Comedian who wore nose glasses and heavily greased mustaches and eyebrows
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Deflation
Definition
Overproduction, loss in per capita money flow, and increased competition
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13th Amendment
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officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was adopted on December 6, 1865

 

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14th Amendment
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Equal protection clause, Due process clause, and the naturalization citizenship clause

 

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15th Amendment
Definition
prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870
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Black Codes
Definition
Laws passed in the south to limit blacks civil rights and liberties
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Freedmen's Bureau
Definition
Established in order to help slaves by building schools and registering voters
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Reconstruction Act of 1867
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·         Creation of five military districts in the seceded states not including Tennessee, which had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and was readmitted to the Union

  • Requiring congressional approval for new state constitutions (which were required for Confederate states to rejoin the Union)
  • Confederate states give voting rights to all men.
  • All former Confederate states must ratify the 14th Amendment.

President Andrew Johnson's vetoes of these measures were overridden by Congress

 

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Tenure of Office Act
Definition
enacted over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, denied the President of the United States the power to remove from office anyone who had been appointed by the past President with the advice and consent of the United States Senate unless the Senate also approved the removal.
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Election of 1876
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Republican nominee Hayes won the election but after the Compromise of 1877 was struck because of the controversial election

 

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Carpetbaggers
Definition
Northern people who moved south in “carpetbags”. Southerners coined the word and saw them as threats who came to pillage the south
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Scalawags
Definition
White Southerners who supported Reconstruction
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
violent clan that was bent on destroying republican interests and black society
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Crop Lien System
Definition
  Share cropping where ex slaves farmed on someone else’s land and paid a certain amount for like a monthly rent to grow crops on the owned field
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Treaty of Paris (1898)
Definition
Ended the Spanish American War
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Investment Banking
Definition
financial institution which raises capital, trades securities, and manages corporate mergers/acquisitions
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Little Big Horn
Definition

 

Battle where thousands of Indians surrounded General Custer and his men

 

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Redeemers
Definition
Southern Democrats that were seen to redeem the south for afterwar victory
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Trust
Definition
Almost like a monopoly where companies meet and set prices in order to make record profits
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Holding Company
Definition
company that only holds stock in order to spread the ownership in order to reduce risk
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Standard Oil Company
Definition
  Rockefeller’s standard oil which made huge profits by crushing competition but was deemed a monopoly latter on
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Definition
   It was the first Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, and today still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation by the United States federal government.
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New South
Definition

South needed to industrialize and become a new economy from the loss of the civil war

 

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Knights of Labor
Definition
Labor Union that was short lived after the Haymarket riots
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Pullman Strike
Definition
Tensions between labor and management rose when Pullman fired 1/3 of his staff and gave 30% cuts in pay but didnt change the price in products. Pullman was boycotted by the American Railway Union and Pres. Cleveland sent in the National Guard to calm things down, which only heated things back up. The Sherman anti-trust act was used against the strikers and the Supreme Court backed it up.
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Haymarket Affair
Definition

 

A rally for support of striking workers in Chicago was disrupted violently when a bomb was tossed into a line of policemen who in response opened fire on the crowd

 

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American Federation of Labor
Definition
Labor Union propelled by Gompers still around today
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Laissez-faire
Definition
  Doctrine of let the people decide where the market will fall. Free market principals and capitalist principals
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Progress and Poverty
Definition
written by Henry George in 1879. The book is a treatise on the cyclical nature of an industrial economy and its remedies.
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New Immigrants
Definition
Southern, Eastern, and Jewish Europe
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Old Immigrants
Definition
North and Western Europe
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Homestead Strike
Definition
Battle between the AA (Steel and labor union) against Carnegie steel
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Populist Party
Definition
Grew from Agrarian unrest and supported the transfer to the silver standard
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Panic of 1893
Definition
Railroad overbuilding and bank failures
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Cross of Gold Speech
Definition
William Jennings Bryan gave the speech which was based around the moving from the de facto gold standard to the silver standard to reverse deflation and start inflation (populist ideals)
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Separate but Equal
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Separate but Equal
Definition
political thinking that allowed civil rights to be stomped on by whites also known as segregation
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Promontory Point
Definition
The meeting place of the Trans-continental railroad
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Robber Barons
Definition
Dominate American Industrialists
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Gospel of Wealth
Definition
  essay by Carnegie that explained that wealth can be used to charity the poor and help struggling businesses
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Social Gospel
Definition
Protestant movement to use Christian Ethics for social problems
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
  Republicans win the election with Ruthford Hayes but the government ends military presence in the south, put southerners in cabinet positions, and turn over government jobs to southern democrats.
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Isolationism
Definition

America was very isolationist where foreign policy intervention got involved but at the same time was very active in trade with other countries.

 

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Interstate Commerce Act
Definition
Started the ICC
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Definition
Regulates the railroads
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Social Darwinism
Definition
Behavior of survival of the fittest where rich capitalists found themselves to be superior and deemed themselves as necessary for the countries survival. Social Darwinism also opened up the door to more racism and biased thoughts.
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Dawes Act
Definition
distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma
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Mugwumps
Definition
Republican activists that supported Grover Clevland
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Open Door Notes
Definition
Open trade policy that opened the door to China
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Credit Mobilier
Definition

Construction company who worked for the Union Pacific and was at the same time owned by them. So government money given to the company for reimbursement was overpriced.

 

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Imperialism
Definition
Expansion of control in order to gain resources or political control
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Frontier Thesis
Definition
Frederick jackson Turner
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Jim Crow
Definition
Laws that made blacks into second hand citizens
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Railroad Strike of 1877
Definition
Massive strike that spread throughout New England
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