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| The branch of the Republican party that takes control of Congress after Lincoln's death, and makes it impossible for Lincoln's plan to be enacted. |
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| Grain elevators. 14th amendment not for whites. |
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| Free Silver, graduated income tax, popular elections for congress, etc. |
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| Changed the required percentage of confederate states voting for reentry to the union from Lincoln's 10% to 50%. Congress would also decide on readmission, rather than the President. Radical Republican bill. |
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| Lincoln's successor. Believed that readmission was unnecessary if it was unconstitutional to secede. Had serious problems with the radical Republicans. He was impeached, and couldn't veto, because they'd be overridden. |
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| Tried (and failed) to enforce equality for blacks. |
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| Doesn't allow Presidents to choose their cabinets. Passed by radical republicans. Johnson says it's unconstitutional, and defies it. Radical Republicans impeach him. |
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| What southerners called Reconstruction. The legend was one in which the north was humiliating the south. |
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| Corrupt gold scheme under Grant Administration. Grant was not the mastermind. |
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| Won election of 1876 when South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida claimed he had won there, but he hadn't. |
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| In exchange for letting the corruption in the 1876 election go, Southern Democrats are given certain reforms to rebuild the south. |
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| Inventer of the single tax. |
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| A tax on land speculation that would (theoretically) eliminate the need for any other taxes. |
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| American Federation of Labor. Labor reform group. More easy to compromise than other labor groups, so they survive. The counterpoint to them is the Knights of Labor. |
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| High tariff. May have been one of the causes of the Spanish-American war because it hurt Cuban sugar production. |
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| Caused by tensions in Cuba, American imperialism, and the suspicious explosion on Havana Harbor of the USS Maine. Spain tries at all costs to avoid war, but McKinley attacks them anyway 'cause of public pressure. US Navy kicked the ass of the Spanish Navy. Americans win quickly. |
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| Not a rap group. Teddy Roosevelt's cavalry group in the Spanish-American war. Won him much praise. |
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| Introduces a 2-cent-per-pound bounty on American-grown sugar. |
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| Established free trade with China in the late 19th century. |
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| (to Monroe Doctrine) When necessary for its own security, America may fight in a police action. |
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| Teddy Roosevelt incites revolt in Panama, in order to build the canal after plans to do it in Columbia fail. |
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| British head of a medical facility in Belgium during WW1. Was executed by Germans occupying Brussels, which ended up causing a scandal of sorts, because women were so rarely executed. |
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| German foreign minister who developed the ingenious plan to have Mexico attack the U.S. as a distraction in WW1. |
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| The treaty by which the Russians pulled out of WW1. They kinda got screwed. It was later nullified. |
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