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Chap:19
America: Seventh Edition
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History
12th Grade
01/21/2008

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Henry Grady

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wrote the Atlanta Consitution to preach the gospel of industry
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Washington Duke
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Used portable tobacco (traveling around and selling it) 1872: 125,00 lbs sold
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James Washington Duke

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Used ads, undersold competitors, cornered supply. Discovered hydro-electric power
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Buck Duke
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1905 to eletrify the rivers
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Difference between Sharecroppers and Tenant Farmers
Definition
Sharecroppers had more (such as supplies) yet they were both treated like slaves
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Crop Lien system
Definition
Merchants would give supplies for mortgages which created a circle of debt
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What did the Bourbon Redeemers do?
Definition
  • Cut back prisons and convict leasing, cut back school costs (only a few more teachers than students) many illerate people out there.
  • Forgot nothing, but learned nothing
  • repudated half of what half of what bondholders and creditors had
  • Stil had blacks in politics from around (1890-1908)
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How did people keep blacks from voting?
Definition
  • Intimidation
  • Poll tax and literacy test (also took out the poor whites)
  • "grandfather clause" (1898): if grandpa could vote then 1867
  • and the understanding clause, if understood the Dec of Ind then that was okay
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Plessy v Ferguson

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1896 Homer Plessy to refuse leaving a white railcar
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Ida B Wells
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Iola nicknamed, began writing in the Memphis Free Speech after being denied a seat in a railcar. After her friends were lynched, she founded th NAACP where she criticized the Jim Crow Laws, and fought for womens rights
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Booker T. Washington
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to not worry about equality to secure self financially in his "Atlanta Compromise"
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Web Du Bois
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To fight through segreagation to get to politics, against Washingtons views
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Benjamin "Pop" Singleton

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The Advantage of Living in a Free State to recruit people to Kansas.

1878 brough 200 people to 7500 acres of land

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Two "colored" cavalry

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Buffalo soliders

Maintained forts, mapped vast areas, telegraph, protect rails

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Anti-Debris Associateion
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Challenge mining companies

Woodruff V North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Town Company. Lorenzo Sawyer presiding. When Marysville CA had been buried in debris, and so it was outlawed to dump debris there

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Dawes Severality Act
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1887 Indians to individual land ownership. 160 acres of land to family but caused 130 mil acres of lost land.
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Joseph McCoy
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run a rail from praire to Chicago for meat.
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Refrigeration methods invented by who?
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GH Hammond from Boston to Chicago

Gustavus Swift: mechanical refrig

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Joseph Gilden
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 1873 barbed wire
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Freidrick Turner

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"The Signifcance of the Frontier in American History" end of the open range wars over. People come for practical wealth.
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