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| the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 |
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The Union states were: - California
- Connecticut
- Delaware*
- Illinois
- Indiana
| - Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky*
- Maine
- Maryland*
| - Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri*
- Nevada
| - New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- Ohio
- Oregon
| - Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- West Virginia*
- Wisconsin
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wanted to get rid of slavery |
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| the idea that the United States would and should extend across the whole continent |
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| Emanicipation Proclamation |
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Lincoln: 1863- Declared slaves living in those states rebelling against the Union,FREE! - Not all slaves were freed.
- Caused a problem in the South
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North and South Advantages in Civil War |
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- North
- greater population
- Diversified crop production
- 21,000 miles of railroads
- larger industrial capacity
- superiority in finances munitions control of the seas
- South
- necessary to fight only a defensive war better trained commanders and troops
- fighting on home territory
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| General Lee's Confederate forces, outnumbered and surrounded by Northern troops, surrendered to Union Commander Ulysses S. Grant. This ended the Civil War |
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Plessy was an African American that was arguing for equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment |
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| Founder of the NAACP, and a Harvard-educated professor who focused on the need for a traditional liberal arts education for African-Americans who could then insist upon equal treatment and rights from white society. |
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| an economic system in which private individuals or groups of individuals own land,factories,and other means of production |
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| "Robber Barons" vs. Capt. of Industry |
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J.P. Morgan was for banking Andrew Carnegie was for steel John D. Rockfeller was for standard oil |
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| a process by which labor and management representatives can reach agreement about wages and conditions |
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Old Immigration
Focused on the earliest immigrants to America including those seeking religious freedoms, land and those brought forcibly enslaved. Covers immigration from 1620 to about the Civil War. New Immigration
Focused on the great wave of immigration that came with the industrialization of America during the Gilded Age and into the early 20th century. Also discusses the backlashes against this increased immigration that resulted in restrictions and quotas in the 1920's. |
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| the court upheld the Cherokee land claim and declared that Georgia law did not govern the Cherokee nation. |
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| It established the first federal regulatory agency, and tried to stop railroad abuses and discrimination. |
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| the restoration of the Confederate states to the union |
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At the end of the Civil war, this bill created a framework for Reconstruction and the readmittance of the Confederate states to the Union.
Allowed Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of slaves.
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| he argued that the Constitution did not allow the creation of a federal agency to help the needy. he also vetoed a bill giving freedmen civil rights, rights as full citizens to equal opportunity and equal treatment under the law |
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| officially accused of wrongdoing in public office by the House of Representatives |
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| to calrify the status of freed men |
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| notherners who moved to the South during Reconstruction |
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| Defined citizenship and guaranteed equal protection. |
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| Brown vs. Board of Education |
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| Found that segregation of black children in the public school system was a violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
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In the 1870s, Southerners recognized the need to present a new image of themselves to the world and to stimulate economic development. Henry Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, was a strong proponent of this "New South." In 1886 he spoke before the New England Society on the "New South." The major points of his speech were: - The United States was no longer two separate nations -- Southerners had erased the Mason-Dixon Line
- The Southern economy had changed -- industrialization had replaced plantation agriculture
- Race relations had changed -- blacks were now partners in the "New South"
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| Companies in a single market making an agreement on prices and the division of business. Railroad companies practiced this until it was outlawed by the government |
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Native Americans undergo "Americanization" housing (reservations) read,write,and learn how to speak the language replace their tribal loyalities was in 1887 |
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protect the workers AFL/CIO ILGWU KOL they also went on strike because they refuse to work |
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| a member of a political party (American party or Know-Nothing party) prominent from 1853 to 1856, whose aim was to keep control of the government in the hands of native-born citizens: so called because members originally professed ignorance of the party's |
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| Eventually a grass-roots movement to combat the abuses of business was formed from the farmers' social organization |
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| was a novel that described American life during 1873 from Twain's point-of-view |
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Provided universal male suffrage (voting). |
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| a fixed tax leived on each adult,sometimes used as a requirement to vote |
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| blacks had to take a test to see if they could read, write and speak the language before they could vote |
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Any man whose father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1,1867 did not have to pay the poll taxes or pass the literacy tests |
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During Reconstruction, many southern states had passed laws to punish railroads, hotels, or theaters that denied "full and equal rights" to any citizen . |
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In 1869 Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market. In furtherance of their scheme they persuaded President Grant to keep federal gold reserves out of circulation. Eventually, they wound up controlling enough of the available supply of gold in New York City to bid up the price to record levels. Once President Grant realized he'd been had, the federal government resumed the sale of gold, and the price crashed--and along with it the stock market. |
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| a railroad company that was formed by the Union Pacific Railroad |
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was a political machine that was runned by William Tweed |
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| was a former slave from Virginia, was a teacher who became head of a new college for African Americans, the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama |
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| tenant farmers who pay their rent with a share of their crops |
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| a type of business in which shares of stock are solid investors, who then each own part of the business and share in the profits |
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| declared that any business combination, including trusts, operating "in restraint of trade" was illegal. |
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| the adoption by an individual or a group of the culture patterns of another group; a process of social change caused by the interaction of significantly diverse cultures; cultural leveling or homogeneity |
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was in 1862 gave away federa lands to anyone who settled it 20 years old- 160 acre lot farm land for 5 years |
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| Farmers decided to more formally organize their political views and in doing so founded the Populist Party. This third political party was largely unsuccessful, but introduced ideas that were later adopted by the Republican and Democratic parties during the Progressive Era. |
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