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-16th president of the US
- led the country through the civil war
- assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
- Reconstruction Policy: come together slowly, sympathetic, directed by the president, believed the South never really left |
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| Andrew Johnson's Impeachment |
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- yes he was impeached, but not convicted
- vetoing Reconstruction acts, removed cabinet officers, hindered the work of the Freedmen's Bureau agent, etc
- he tried to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
-House approved impeachment resolutions, charging him w/ "high crimes and misdemeanors
- not convicted |
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- believed in the same racial stereotypes of southerners
- hypocritical about blacks voting
- long occupation in the south
- didn't want to lose the states in the election so allowed blacks to vote in the south, once the Republicans didnt need the southern states they didnt care about blacks voting |
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| Accomplishments of Reconstruction (9) |
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1. new democratic constitutions
2. modernized the south with schools, hospitals, churches, railroads, ect
3. no more property-vote qualifications
4. no imprisonment for debt
5. poverty-relief programs
6. divorce laws
7. capital crime for execution decreased (26 to 5)
8. women's rights to own property
9. universal male suffrage |
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-Election of 1876
- Republicans (Rutherford B. Hayes)
- Democrats (Samuel J. Tilden)
- 20 disputed votes in the Deep South states (Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina)
- North-South compromise (1877) Hayes declared president & he ordered the last federal troops out of the South |
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-North-South compromise (1877) Hayes declared president & he ordered the last federal troops out of the South
- this is considered the official end of reconstruction |
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- wrote thesis "Frontier in American History"
- Americans have lived at the edge of a frontier and that's why they were self-sufficient, optimistic, survivalists
- now that the frontier is being settled social problems are emerging |
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| 160 free acres of land in the frontier if you fill out a claim and live there for 5 years it was yours |
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- divided the Native American Trible Land into family farms
- this was an attempt to "Americanize" the Native Americans
- the US government took the extra land for itself |
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Poll tax
Literary tests
Grandfather Clause |
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poll tax: made it difficult for poor blacks to afford to vote
literary tests: meant to keep blacks from voting, made them read a passage
Grandfather clause: if you/father/grandfather could vote in election of 1860 you can vote (black ppl couldnt vote then) |
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-restrictions on blacks, created separate facilities
- bathrooms, cemeteries, trains, water fountains, court room bibles, etc |
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- upholds the constitutionality of racial segregation
- "separate, but equal" |
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| - American paper; female and black, one-woman crusader against lynching |
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Scottish immigrant who started as a bobbin boy and saved his money and invested in the steel industry. Later he established Carnegie Steel Company that turned into US Steel
- practice vertical integration (no middle man)
- wrote "The Gospel of Wealth" |
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- poor at first, later invested in oil and bought 80% of all the oil refineries in the US
- practiced horizontal integration (buying out the competition)
- est Standard Oil Company |
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- est Morgan & Co.
- investment banking house
- marketed stocks and made the more popular
- bought US Steel from Carnegie |
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