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First Semester Midterm
Honors American History
56
History
9th Grade
10/15/2006

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Term
Freedmen Bureau
Definition
Assited ex-slaves and refugees in adjusting to social-economical changes
Term
Andrew Johnson;
What Party
Definition
Was a Radical Rebublican
Term
Andrew Johnson;
Presidentail plan
Definition
Restores property rights to southerners who wrote an oath of loyalty, excluding blacks.

Wealthy southerns could petition for a pardon
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14th Amendment;
What was it?
Definition
Guarenteed all citizens equality befor ethe law.

Strengthend the civil rights act of 1866

Gauranteed "due proccess of the law"
Term
14th Amendment;
What was it?
Definition
Guarenteed all citizens equality befor ethe law.

Strengthend the civil rights act of 1866

Gauranteed "due proccess of the law"
Term
14th Amendment;
What was it?
Definition
Guarenteed all citizens equality befor ethe law.

Strengthend the civil rights act of 1866

Gauranteed "due proccess of the law"
Term
14th Amendment;
Andrew Johnson
Definition
Opposed this amendment, and would furthur seperate him from the radical rebublicans.
Term
Radical Repubicans
Definition
Strengthened republican party in the south

The south must recognize the consequences of its defeat

Freed Men must gain right to vote
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Andrew Johnson;
IMpeachment
Definition
Congress passed the Tenure Office Act to weaken powers of the President.

Johnson violated this act, was impeached but not convicted
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Carpet Baggers and Scalawags
Definition
Carpetbaggers- Northerners who ventured into the south
Scalawags - Southerns who supported Republican Party
Term
Southern Democrats
Definition
Realized they could regain political power by manipulating racial tensions.
Term
Klu Klux Klan
Definition
Orriginaly a social club would later use terror against its opponents.

The Klan used terror to keep blaks from voting

the U.S Congress would pass anti-klan legeslation
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Era of the new South
Definition
was characterized by a continuance of the rural poverty and racial diversness
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Grange and Populism
Definition
Direct election of US senetors

Legislation to make credit more avalible to farmers

Government regulations of railroads
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Tom Watson of Populist Party
Definition
Supported an allience of poor white and black farmers as a way to fight the power of wealthy southern landowners and to gain a better way of life for rural poor
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Plessy vs. Fergenson
Definition
In this case, US Supreme COurt rules that segregation was constitutional if facilities were equal.
Term
Plessy vs. Fergenson; Jim Crow Laws
Definition
This decsion would lead to more Jim Crow Laws that would establish segregation throughout the South
Term
Booker T Washington
Definition
Atlanta Compromise address

Washington urged blacks to accomidate themselves to segregations and push for equality.
Term
Gilded Age
Definition
1870 1900 when worship of the wealth existed alongside tremendous socail devisions.
Term
INventors Inventions
Definition
It soared inventiiness got bigger
Term
Horizontal Integration
Definition
John D Rokefeller bought outcompetitors so that his company, Standard Oil company woudl practically menopolize the oil industry
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Rise of corporations
Definition
As america industrializes and coroporations approved nature od work changed. Workers no longer controlled conditions and nature of work
Term
Social Reformers
Definition
wanted to help the poor by giving them education and social services. Settelment House Movement
Term
Andrew Carnigie
Definition
Take on the Gospel of Wealth
Differed in that he felt the wealthy had an obligations to return some of the wealth to help working class neighboorhoods.
Term
Social Darwinism
Definition
Conditions in the human society are determined by the laws of nature

most capable survive, least cabale die
Wrong to Interfere
Term
Knights of Labor
Definition
Open to all workers
Term
AFL
Definition
limited to skilled workers

Craft union
Term
New Immigrants
Definition
INstead of northern and western euorpeans america was expeirencing an influx of southern and eastern euopeans as well as asia and latin america
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Scientific racism
Definition
scientific racism views other races as being born infeirior to Anglo Saxons, and beleivers of this favored immigration restriction and were NOT INCLUDED TO ASSIST THOSE OF OTHER RACES
Term
What led to the growth of cities
Definition
Immigration Job oppurtunities and new technologies
Term
Celebration of 100th Bday!
Definition
~Philidalphea Centenial City
Term
Gustaffus swift
Definition
Good example of vertical integration.

Refridgerated railway cars and refrigerated meat.
Term
George Pullman
Definition
Made Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars
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James B Duke
Definition
Auttomated ciggarett manufactoring
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Sweat Shops
Definition
small poory ventalated shops or apartments crammed with workers to piece togather garments.
Term
Jane Adams
Definition
founded chicago hull house
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Jacobb Reese
Definition
Wrote "how the other half lives" Muck writer - exposed true working conditions
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Henery Clay Frick
Definition
carnegees manager led to a stike, ordered boycott of and trains with pullman cars
Term
Samuel Gompers
Definition
Collective bargening leader of AFL
Term
Terrance Powderly
Definition
leader of Knights of Labor
Term
Great Uprising of 1877
Definition
rail road stike

1st nation wide work shortage in America
Term
Hay Market square
Definition
1860 - macormic harvesting machine

bomb exploded, blamed on anarchistrs
Term
POgroms
Definition
Government led attacks on jewish citizens in russia
Term
Transcontinental Railroad
Definition
Promentory point Mat 10 1869

Union Pacific- Omaha - Irish
Central Pacific- Sacramento Chineese
Term
Indian Tribes
Definition
Lakota Siox
Cheyens
Arapahoe
Comanches
Term
Voter turn out
Definition
80%
Term
Key states during elections
Definition
New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Indiansa
Term
Republican Party Supportes
Definition
Strongest in North and midwest sold stock americans

Africans Americans
Term
Democrat Party Supporters
Definition
white southerners

strongest in south and urban north east
Catholics and recent immigrants
Term
`Republican Belieafs
Definition
Nationalism national unity
waving the bloody shirt
immigration restiction
cultural uniformity
opposed parachial schools
Foreint langauges and supported prohibition
Term
Democratic Party beliefs
Definition
Supportes disfranchiesment of blacks, exclusion of chineese dissposition os indians
Term
Third Parties
Definition
POpulist party 1890

Prohibition party, john philup susa
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Mugwumps
Definition
Republicans honest
campaigned for the civil service reform
Term
Gold Standard vs Free Silver
Definition
Free silver - gov should expand money supply by purchasing and coining all silver offered to it
Term
Leaders of ppoulist
Definition
sockless jerry simpson annie diggs and mary lease
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