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Term
Reconstruction and Recreation: What do these terms mean?
Definition
Reconstruction: Homoginizing the south into an image of the north

Reconstruction: The process of changing all levels of society in the south to more of a northern mindset.
Term
North Over South
Definition
* South Left the government
* North made laws that negatively effect the south
* Less Farmers
* Even after south returns to the government they can't oppose the northern policy
Term
Republican reorganization of the economy
Definition
* Create national bank
* fuse government and finance
* Promote industry through taiffs
* Land grants to railroads
* Income taxes and greenbacks-Inflation
Term
Ruin of the Southern economy and society
Definition
* Congress policy of retribution instead of forgiveness
* Confed $ and bonds useless
* Slaves were freed leaving families destitute with no one to work the land.
* White southerners denied right to vote or hold office
* Railroads, Locomotives, and homes were destroyed, leaving only the chimneys
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Term
Abraham Lincoln
Definition
* President during the civil war
* Felt that the south should be given amnesty and brought back into the union. encouraged several reconciliatory laws
Resumption over reconstruction
Term
Proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction
Definition
If southerners took an oath saying that they were loyal to the union all would be forgiven
Term
10% PLAN
Definition
If 10% of the voting population in a community took the oath then the whole community was forgiven and that 10% could be government
Term
Wade-Davis Bill
Definition
* Reaction to Liancoln's soft policies
* Required oath saying an individual had NEVER supported the south
* Needed 50% instead of 10%
* 75% fought in the war, math doesn't work
* Congress adjourns and Lincoln never signs it "Pocket Veto"
* begins conflict between radicals and conservati`ves
Term
Andrew Johnson
Definition
*Stayed in Congress while TN left the union
* 17th president of US
* 1865-1869
* Critical of plantation owners
* Succession wasn't legal
Term
radical republicans
Definition
After southern states rejoined the union the republicans wouldn't let they sit.
* Rejected Johnson's reconstruction plan
* Believes that Only congress can legislate for reconstruction
Term
Thaddeus Stevens
Definition
* PA
* 1792-1868
* Lawyer and Industrialist
* Iron Foundry, got rich off of railroads
* Abolitionist, Free the slaves!
* Southern States were conquered providences
* Believed that Johnson can't be president because he is not from a state.
Term
Charles Sumner
Definition
*MA
* 1811-1874
* Radical Republican
* Abolitionist
* Secession means states become territories
* Anti southern rhetoric
* Whipped with a cane because he upset someone
* Punish the south
Term
Benjamin F. Wade
Definition
* 1800-1878
* OH
* Radical Republican
* Co wrote Wade-David Bill
* Arm Slave, execute confederate leaders confiscate property
* Impeached Johnson
Term
The Black Codes
Definition
* 1866
* NOT Jim Crow laws
* Against ALL minorities
* created to prevent vagrancy
* Prohibited interracial marriage
* Led to radical republican legislation because North could chastise the south
* Free slaves would follow the army around and this law was to prevent them from using army resources.
Term
Freedman's Bureau Bill
Definition
* Gives republicans power
* Made slavery illeagal
* Enforces 13th admendment
* gets black to vote
* Creates school for free blacks
* White southerners can't vote
*Vetoed by Johnson overturned by congress 1867
Term
Civil Rights Act of 1867
Definition
Granted citizenship to freedmen
Gave them the right to own property and sue in court
*Vetoed by Johnson, overturned by congress 1867
Term
Election of 1866
Definition
Republicans take over 75% of seats in congress
South not represented
Begins congressional/military reconstruction
Term
Radical agenda
Definition
* Forge a new union
* One Branch controls the government
* Avenge the union men who died in the war
* Punish the south
* Remake the south in the north's image
* Tyranny of Republican Government
Term
1st Reconstruction Act
Definition
* South States except TN removed from union
* 10 states divided into military districts subject to martial law
* Forced to draw up new constitutions ratifying the 14th admendment...even though we just said they weren't states
* Johnson Vetos, congress overrules him, sends troops to enforce law in southern states
* Gives control to the republicans in the south
Term
Omnibus Act of 1868
Definition
* Military reconstruction requires use of army to maintain repub control in the south
* 7 Confed states follow 1st recon act and are allowed back in the union
* Army presence and fact that white voters can't vote.
Term
Tenure of Office Act of 1867
Definition
Limited constitutional authority of the president
* Said the president could not remove an executive member that had been appointed by a past president without the approval of congress
* created because of republican desire to impeach Johnson
Term
Edwin Stanton
Definition
* Secretary of War
* Removed by Johnson in 1868
* Republican "spy" in Cabinet
* Abused Military power
* Put northern ministers in churches in the south
Term
Johnson Impeachment
Definition
Violates Tenure of Office Act by removing Stanton without congressional approval
*35 votes for removal 19 against
* 7 repub voted to keep him in office
* Lame Duck presidency
* 1926 Supreme court rules that the Tenure act is unconstitutional
Term
Constitutional Reconstruction
Definition
* Congress alters Constitution during reconstruction
Term
"Civil War" Admendments
Definition
* 1865 13th amendment abolishes slavery
* 1866 Congress reduced supreme court justices. limits presidential appointment power
* 1870 15th amendment allows all men regardless of race to vote
Term
Ex Parte Milligan
Definition
Court case that ruled that it was illegal for a military court to try a citizen when the civilian courts are still operational
Term
14th Admendment Controversy
Definition
Needed 28 states for ratification but 2 states refused to ratify it. Sec o State Seward forced the amendment by congress. This was a congressional abuse of power.
Term
1868 Presidential Election
Definition
Between U.S. Grant and Horatio Seymour
Grant wins due to large Union Vet vote.
Term
U.S. Grant
Definition
* 1822-1885
* OH
* Republican
* Civil War hero
* 18th President
* 1869-1877
* youngest president up to that point
Term
Scandals during the Grant Administration
Definition
* Gould-Fiske Black friday Tried to get a person appointed to the assistant to the treasury for insider information to corner the gold market.
* Credit Mobilier Scandal tried to bribe congress with stock in Union Pacific
* Crime of '73
* Coinage act of "73
* Panic and long depression
* De Monitization of silver
* Miners and farmers hurt by policies
Term
1872 Elections
Definition
Grant Vs. Horace Greeley
Republican vs. republican
Grant and radicals win
Term
Carpetbaggers/Scalawag
Definition
Carpetbagger: A northern who moved south to take advantage economically and politically

Scalawag: A southerner who was republican after the war
Term
Bourbon Redemption
Definition
* Southern Control of State Governments
* 1870-1877
* Resistance to radical Reconstruction
Term
1876 Election
Definition
* Samuel Tilden vs. Rutherford B Hayes
* Tilden was anti reconstruction
* Hayes disputes election returns
* Tilden wins popular but Hayes wins Electoral
Term
Compromise of 1877
Definition
* Hayes becomes president without resistance from the south
* Troops would leave SC, LA, FL
* Southern Democrat appointed to the cabinet
* Support for South Industry
* Southern Railroad
Term
Myths concerning end of slavery
Definition
Term
Field Order No. 15
Definition
Each free slave could get forty acres and a mule. 400,000 acre confiscated along the Atlantic coast. Revoked by Andrew Johnson
Term
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Definition
* 1822-1901
* Mississippi
* First Black United States Senator
Term
Joseph Rainey
Definition
* 1832-1887
* SC
* First black member of House of Representatives
Term
Ku Klux Klan
Definition
* 1866-1869
* Nanthan Bedford Forrest 1st grand wizard of KKK
Term
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Definition
1st grand wizard of the KKK
Term
Wade Hampton
Definition
Ran against Chamberlain and the election was bloody and mean. Won the election by SC state supreme court saying he won the election.
Term
Ku Klux Klan Acts
Definition
* 1870-1871
* Try to help enforce 14th and 13th
* Klan folks faced trial in Federal Court
* habeas corpus suspended
* Unconstitutional
Term
Race Relations 1877-1920
Definition
* whites and blacks worked together in south
* Cities segregated by class rather than race Usually
* little racial violence until 1890
* Economic problems turned blacks into scapgoats
* Labor competition
* Blacks migrated north
Term
Black Migration North
Definition
Term
Legal Segregation
Definition
* Jim Crow laws
* Black Voters would disenfranchised
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Term
Plessy v. Ferguson
Definition
Segregation was legal as long as it was equal
Term
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Definition
People couldn't vote unless they could pay the tax or pass a nearly impossible reading test. Meant to target black voters
Term
Jack Johnson
Definition
* First Black heavyweight boxing champion
* Jefferies refuses to fight him depriving him of the chance at the championship
* White only world heavyweight championship
Term
Race Riots
Definition
* Sparked by Johnson's win over Jefferies
* Some 'riots' were people celebrating
* Police tried to stop them
Term
Ida B. Wells
Definition
* 1862-1931
* Lynching Opponent
* Owned anti segregation newspaper
* Southern Horror Lynch Law in all its phases 1897
Term
Booker T. Washington
Definition
* 1856-1915
* Black reformer
* Established Tuskeegee institute
* Up from Slavery: Autobiography
* atlanta address and compromise
Term
W.E.B. Dubois
Definition
* 1868-1963
* First black PhD
* The Souls of Black Folk
* "The Talented Tenth"
Term
The Talented Tenth
Definition
W.E.B Dubois term for 1 in ten black men raising to become leaders of their race.
Term
Pan-Africanism
Definition
Seeks to unite the black community into one african community
Term
Black Military History
Definition
Blacks served in the USAForces in both the Spanish american war and WWI. After WWI they expected to be treated better but that did not happen
Term
Eugene Ballard
Definition
Black Swallow
* First black combat piolt
* 1894-1961
Term
Claud McKay
Definition
* 1889-1948
* Pioneer of Harlem Renassaince
* If we must die 1919
* Communist
Term
Langston Hughes
Definition
*1902-1967
* Communist
* poet
* a dream defered
a raisin in the sun
Term
Jazz and Blues Music
Definition
Orginated from brass bands of New orleans
* influenced by rag music
* became black music
* influenced rock n roll
Term
The new South
Definition
* Implies that there was an old south that wasn't as good.
Term
Henry Grady
Definition
coined the phrase "New south
* move towards industry and commerce and away from slavery and agriculture
Term
Sharecropping
Definition
A land owner would give a piece of his land to a person in exchange for a portion of the crops. Portions of crops would be exchanged for seeds and tools until there was little or no crops for the share cropper
Term
Columbus Ga: A new south city
Definition
Industry and mills
one of the biggest mills in the south bibb industries
Term
Samuel Spencer
Definition
* Columbus GA
* 1847-1906
* Confederate Veteran
* Created the southern railway system
* Killed in a train accident
Term
James B. Duke
Definition
* 1856-1925
* The American Tabacco Company
* Duke Power
* Duke Mills
* Tobacco pioneer
Term
Richard J. Reynolds
Definition
R.J. Reynolds Tabacco Copany
* Competition for American Tobacco company
* 1850-1918
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Term
Birmingham Al: Sloss Furnances
Definition
* Steel Industries
* Haunted
Term
The Lost Cause
Definition
* literary and intellectual movement to reconcile white southern culture
* justification of the was and secession
* sympathetic to the south
Term
Confederate Heritage Groups
Definition
* maintain the memory of confederate veterans
* Maintains confederate monuments
Term
Southern Renaissance
Definition
* Defense of southern culture against criticism
* Focuses on conservative culture of the south
* South was the last culture to resist industry and consumerism
* advocated conservative, rural, farm culture
Term
William Faulkner
Definition
* 1897-1962
* Nobel Prize
* the sound and the fury
Term
Robert Penn Warren
Definition
* 1905-1989
* All the King's Men
* Pulitzer Only writer to recieve it
Term
Country/Bluegrass Music
Definition
* Has roots in upper south and appalachia
* Hillbilly music
* odd mix of cultures
* 1930s Bluegrass is recognized as part of country music
Term
Hank Williams
Definition
Country singer
Term
Jimmie Rogers
Definition
Country music
* The man
* kinda violent
Term
Moonshine
Definition
* almost pure rubbing alcohol
* illegal because it was made in high quantities without paying taxes
* created runners which lead to fast cars and NASCAR
Term
Junior Johnson
Definition
The father of NASCAR
best example of transition from bootlegging to stock car racing
Term
NASCAR
Definition
pretty cars. started when moonshine runners would go out and race their cars to see who was fastest
Term
The West: Perception and Reality
Definition
* Most diverse place in the nation
* gunslingers and outlaws were there but a minority
* High mountains, plains, deserts
Term
Gunslingers and outlaws
Definition
* Minority of people
* Wild Bunch
- Butch Cassidy
- used dynamite, got caught because they had their picture taken
* Jesse James
- watch deadwood
Term
Climate and Geography
Definition
High mountains, Plains and deserts
Term
John Wesley Powell
Definition
sent out west to determine if the west was able to be settled
He said no
Term
Republican Western Land Legislation
Definition
* Railroads
* Legislature used to encourage people to move west
Term
American Bison or Buffalo
Definition
* American Indians used all parts of the buffalo
* Settlers would not use all of it and hunted them nearly to extinction
* 1880 15 million buffalo were almost extinct
Term
Buffalo Bill Cody
Definition
* started out as a buffalo hunter
* created a traveling west show to take back to the "dudes" in the east
Term
The Indian Wars
Definition
* 1860-1917
* settlers vs. tribes
* army came in to defend and protect the settlers
Term
Dakota War of 1862
Definition
* Minnesota
* settlers Vs. Sioux warriors
* U.S. wins killing 100 warriors and executes 38 leaders
* Largest mass execution in US History
Term
Red Cloud's war
Definition
* 1866-1868
* Most sucsessful Indian War
* gains autonomous control over WY and Dakotas until 1890s
Term
Wounded Knee
Definition
* 1890
* Last major battle of the Indian wars
* unarmed women and children were killed
Term
Henry Dawes
Definition
* MA
* Republican
* Integrated tribes into US Gov through DAWES COMMISSION created in 1893
Term
Cowboys
Definition
* 1870-1880
* Move cattle from ranch to railhead
* Once the land was settled no more free ranging for cattle the cowboys no longer had a job
Term
Gold and Silver mining
Definition
* Creates Boom towns
* Brought people to the west
* Land claims from large mining companies
Term
Boom Towns
Definition
* towns would pop up over night when a strike was found
* worst parts of society; crime gambling prostitution
Term
Comstock Lode
Definition
* Deep Mining
* 500-600 billion
* 1860-1870s
* Dangerous
Term
George Hearst
Definition
* 1820-1891
* most profitable mining company
* made millions
Term
Ghost towns
Definition
After a strike was mined out the town would leave and be abbandoned
Term
sod busters
Definition
Farmers who went west to improve lifestyle
houses made out of grass
Term
Federick Jackson Turner
Definition
* said the frontier was closed with the settlement of OK
* west defined america from the earliest settlement
Term
Gilded Age
Definition
Late 19th century
Gold plated unto a less precious metal
New rich
Help from Republican controlled government
Not Laissez Faire (Free Mareket)
Robber barons
Term
Henry Flagler
Definition
Owned standard Oil
Founded Miami
Billionaire brings Rail Road to Florida
Term
Jay Gould
Definition
Rail Road tycoon
Robber baron
Term
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
Definition
Railroad and steamship tycoon
Vanderbilt University
Biltmore house
Term
James J. Hill
Definition
Railroad Tycoon
Used own money
No government $ empire builder
Term
Transcontinental Railroad
Definition
Connects east to west
1869 completed began 1859
Factor behind western legislation in 1850s
OH-CA
Term
Railroads and Impact on America
Definition
Developed industries like steel, timber, telegraph
‘National’ political, social and economic climate
News is practically instantaneous
Term
George Pullman
Definition
Pullman sleeping cars
Can go across the country and not have to sleep in their seat
Term
Western Union
Definition
1851-present
Created standardized time schedules for RR
Invented stock ticker
Telegraphing the old text message
Helped facilitate railroad travel
Millions of telegraph messages
Term
Andrew Carnegie
Definition
Rags to riches
Born in Scotland
Started in a telegraph company and started to investing
Carnegie Steel
Cut price of steel from $80 a ton to $8 a ton making steel available to use
Invested in the furnace that make steel work
Sold company to JP Morgan (became us steel)
Gave away a lot of money, pensions for workers
Term
Henry Clay Frick
Definition
Major interest in Carnegie steel
He was the brawn and would handle the “dirty work”
Term
Johnstown Flood and the Gentlemen’s camp
Definition
Dam workers didn’t fill the holes in the dam and it broke. 30 foot wall of water took out Johnstown
1000s dead town completely destroyed
Frick was responsible for flood, bought off anyone who was going to sue
Term
J.P. Morgan
Definition
Had purple skin
U.S. Steel
Class warfare had he a villain
Very wealthy
Term
Andrew Mellon
Definition
Sec of the tres
Oversaw roaring 20s
Kept fed from controlling the treasury
Investments in all major US Industries
Term
John D. Rockefeller
Definition
Standard Oil
$300 billion in worth
Gave away half of his wealth to health and welfare organizations
Many current gas companies originated in standard oil
Monopoly
Vertical integration: manufacture all components and own the companies that ship
Term
Gustavus Swift
Definition
Meat packing company
Invented assembly line production and refrigerated car delivery
$135 mil
MA and IL
Term
New Immigration
Definition
From eastern and central Europe
Melting pot doesn’t work with these people. They hold on to their original culture
Immigrants were not all very well educated
Term
U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark
Definition
All children born in the United States are citizens of the united states
Anchor Babies
Women were screened for pregnancy and not allowed in the country
Term
Ellis Island
Definition
Checkpoint for immigrants
Many Immigrants turned away
Now a Museum
Term
Immigration Act of 1924
Definition
Oppostition to new immigration
Throughout history there has been opposition to immigration
Annual Quotas placed on European immigration
Ignored latin American immigration
Term
Immigration Restrictions
Definition
1917-1920 Literacy tests
Quotas Only so many allowed in the country
1953 Mccarran and walter act screens for communists
1965 Equality act relaxes quotas
1986 After amnesty was given they then said to lock down on immigration
Term
The Chinese
Definition
Arrived in US around 1820
Mostly men 1685 men to 1 woman during this era
Came to escape political
Gold rush
Did not want to assimilate
California passed a Tax on nonwhite peoples
Term
Burlingame Treaty of 1863
Definition
China granted most favored nation status
Established Chinatowns
Good trading partners
Term
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Definition
Outlaws immigration of Chinese for 10 years
Repealed in 1942 when china became WWII ally
Grover Cleveland called the Chinese a danger to the US, not capable of assimilation
Term
Rock Springs Massacre
Definition
Chinese miners attacked
29 Chinese men killed
70 chinese homes burned
Term
Problems of Urbanization
Definition
Places strain on resources
Overcrowding, Poverty, Disease, Fire
Slums
Term
Jacob Riis
Definition
How the Other Half Lives
Took pictures of very very poor living conditions and published a book.
Term
Knights of Labor
Definition
Terence Powderly
8 hour work day
No Child Labor
No striking
Term
AFL
Definition
Skill trade union
A federal system
Had a central authority with smaller groups that kind of worked on their own
Term
Great Railway Strike
Definition
Wages cuts as a result of 1873 depression
East and Midwest workers refuse to work
Shuts down the economy
US sends in Army to restore peace people were killed
Term
Haymarket Square Riot
Definition
At McCormick machines
Union workers replaced with Scabs
Scabs vs. Union members vs. Police
Leaders of riot (mostly Union members) were executed
Term
Homestead Strike
Definition
Carnegie Steel
Frick
The Steel co had a good year and the workers demanded more wages. Carnegie said yes to 60% workers demanded 80% Carnegie says no and then a riot.
Term
Pullman Strike
Definition
Railroad wokers go on strike to support Pullman
Term
Lulow Massacre
Definition
Striking coal Miners attacked by Private detectives mostly women and children
Term
Battle of Blair Mountain
Definition
Coal miner strike
‘Red Necks’ from wearing red scarves around their neck.
Former soldiers
First and only time that US drops a bomb on its own people.
Term
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Definition
Spy on Labor Unions and use the information
Hunt down Jesse James
Presidential Protection
‘We never sleep’
Term
Presidential Line of Succession
Definition
Hayes 1877-1881
Garfield
Arthur
Cleveland
Harrison
Clevland
McKinley
Term
Rutherford B Hayes
Definition
1877-1881
End of Reconstruction
Indian wars
Economic Problems
Term
1880 Election
Definition
Grant sought 3rd term
Divided republican party
Garfield very close election
Outsider honest? Not really
Term
James Garfield
Definition
The republican party was very divided and elected him to office. He was billed as being an outsider who would come in and clean up Washington. He won the election barely.
1831-1881
20th president
Union war vet
Assassinated in 1881 by office seeker Guiteau
Term
Chester Arthur
Definition
1829-1886
VT
21st President
1881-1885 term
Bachelor
Well known for image more than substance
Open presidency
Civil service reform
Term
1884 Election
Definition
Arthur Files too late to make a run at the presidency
BlainE of Main ran as republican (former Radical)
Corrupt dirty campaign
Half-Breed
Grover Clevland
Grover admits to having an illegitimate child, public doesn't care
Term
Grover Cleveland
Definition
22nd president
Grover the good
Conservative Democrat
350 lbs
Honest man
Left the door open during meeting and talked loudly to prevent shady deals
Vetos everything that he feels is unconstitutional
Limited government
First Democrat since Buchanan in 1856
'Rebel Flag Order' to heal wounds of reconstruction
Term
1888 Election
Definition
Cleveland renominated by dems
Cleveland came back after Harrison and became the 24th president
Term
Benjamin Harrison
Definition
1833-1907
Republican Nominee
Political family
wins 1888 Election through corruption
Lost Popular vote won elcetoral
23rd president
The centennial President 100 years after Washington
charges of corruption Too pro business
Term
Grover cleveland (24th)
Definition
Last conservative
sounds money
anti tarif
Panic of 1893
Made an adjustment to Gold and Silver standard and the economy goes in the tank
Didn't believe in social programs
Term
1896 Election
Definition
McKinley vs. Brian
realignment of political parties
Free silver and powerful central government
Cross of gold: Nailed to the gold standard
Third party of more conservative democrats
Limit Government
Gold Standard
Term
William McKinley
Definition
25th President
Forgien policy
Assasinated by Czolgosz
Died of infection
czolgosz was executed
1st Modern Prestident
Uses the press
Term
William J. Bryan
Definition
Term
Spoils vs. Merit
Definition
Spoils: you supported me so I will make sure you get jobs and money
Merit: thank you for supporting me but I will be finding people who can do the job
Term
Stalwarts vs. Halfbreeds
Definition
Stalwarts: Republican Spoils
Halfbreeds: Merit
Term
William J. Bryan
Definition
Youngest man nominated by the democratic party
Supported free silver
More powerful central government
Term
National Democratic Party
Definition
Conservative Democrats leave the convention
Form the National Democratic Party
A conservative, limited gov, free trade, gold standard party
Union, Confederate ticket Pres was union VP was Confederate
John Palmer nominated for president
Term
Presidential Assassinations
Definition
Term
Civil Service Reforms
Definition
Spoils vs. Merit
Stalwarts vs. Halfbreeds
Term
Pendleton Act
Definition
Jobs are hired in instead of appointed by government jobs.
Most federal jobs are civil service
Term
The Protective Tariff
Definition
Tax on imports
Protection: Increase tariff so that the import is more expensive than local products. Protects American jobs from forgien imports
Competition: Make a better product through competition to keep quality up and prices down
No labor laws
McKinlet: 48% tariff on imported goods
When Cleveland comes back into office the Tariff is reduced
Term
Business Regulation
Definition
Interstate Commerace act
Sherman anti trust act
Promote and regulate business
Not a free market
Term
Interstate Commerce Act
Definition
Changed the relationship between business and government
Mostly railroads
RR rates had to be just and reasonable (whatever the government says they have to be)
Prohibits pooling operations, discriminatory rates and rebates
Violates free market and can increase the cost of business
Term
Sherman Antitrust Act
Definition
Legislation designed to create competition
Prohibited monopolies
No conspiring to create monopoly
Result: No business has been called a trust since 1890
Term
U.S. v. E.C. Knight Co.
Definition
Federal Government does not have any authority over monopoly
Opposed to business regulation
Term
Bland allison act of 1878
Definition
Bi Metal. Silver and gold instead of just Gold
Term
Sherman Purchase act
Definition
equal amount of silver and gold in the government
Peopl start to hoard gold and sell it for more.
Ratio was off
Repealed by Cleveland takes money out of circulation.
Term
Panic of 1893
Definition
caused by cleveland repealing the sherman act and fixing the ratio. People who had borrowed on the act where screwed
Term
Winslow Homer
Definition
1836-1910
Influenced by Hudson river school
Cloud shadows
The Gulf Stream
After the Hurricane
Term
Thomas Eakins
Definition
Victorian age
Artist sculptor
Nudes controversial figure
Introduced camera to the art studio
The Gross Clinic
Miss Amelia C. Van Buren
Term
Robert Henri
Definition
Founder of “Ashcan” School
City Life
Gritty dark dirty paintings
Snow in New York
Fay Bainter
Term
Edward Hopper
Definition
Member of ‘Ashcan’ School
Urban Life
Automat
Infinity of loneliness
Nighthawks
Term
George Bellows
Definition
‘Ashcan’School
Club Night
Cliff Dwellers
Term
Grant Wood
Definition
Midwest
Ruralist
American Gothic
Term
Alexander G. Bell
Definition
Telephone in 1876
Mr. Watson, come here I want to see you.
Metal Detector
Term
Thomas Edison
Definition
1847-1931
Light bulb
1000 Patents
Phonograph
General Electric Company
Known for stealing stuff from people
Term
George Westinghouse
Definition
1846-1914
Early inventor
Westinghouse manufacturing company
Perfected manufacturing of AC High Voltage current
Air brake
Shock absorbers
Electrical brake for subway cars
Term
Nikola Tesla
Definition
Invented or perfected
Long Distance electric delivery via AC
Radio
Laser
X-ray
Fired by Edison the hired by Westinghouse and waived his royalties cuz he was a good guy
Extremely clean
Celibate vegetarian
Master of several languages
Renaissance man
Genius
Term
Electric Inventions
Definition
Throw away razors
Shick electric dry shaver
Electric fan
Electric flat iron
Electric sewing machine
Electric washing machine
Term
Ransom Olds
Definition
Term
Henry Ford
Definition
Term
Wright Brothers
Definition
Term
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