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Economic:
1. income tax
2. National Banking system restarted
Social
1. women nursing
2. blacks/13th amend
3. vererans reunions
4. monuments
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1. country was reunited
2 lincoln assasinated
3. idea of states rights didn't disappear but states would never secede atain
4. the confederacy was unsure of her future
3. National currently was printed
4. 60% of the SOunthern wealth was lost |
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| discriminatory laws that severely restricted AA lives. The Civil Rights act of 1866 gave AA citizenship and forbade states from passing them Effect of restrictions: carrying weapons, serving on juries, testifying against whites, starting own businesses and traveling without permits. |
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| a minority of Rep in Congress who were angered by LIncons terms. Led the way in abolition and the war and proposed laws to ensure AAs rights. Led by Sumner and Stevens. they wanted to destroy p9olicical powers of former slave holders. |
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| : white southers who joined Rep party. |
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| Northerners who moved to the South after the War. |
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| Term Democrats used for their return to power in the South. |
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| 1863. Lincolns Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. Gov't would pardon all confederations who would swear allegiance to the Union and promise to obey its laws. |
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| Radical response to 10% plan. proposed that congress rather than prez be responsible for reconstruction. + majority for readmission. Lincoln kidded it with a pocket veto. |
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| called Presidental Reconstruction. declared that AL, Fl, GA, MI, Nc, Sc, and Tx could be readmitted if it met several conditions: declare secession illegal, swear allegiance to Union, ratify 13th. failed to address land voting rights and protection of AA |
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| est by Congress in the last month of the year, to assist former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food by setting up 40 hospitals, 4000 primary schools, 61 industrial institutes, and 74 teacher training es voted to be continued and enlarged by Congress in Feb 1866. |
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| Drafted by Congress "all persons born and naturalized in US' entitled to protection under law. didn't give AA right to vote. |
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| states that no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous, condition of servitude," ratified in 1870 important victory for rebels. |
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| Jan 1865 sherman promised the freed slaves who followed his amry 40 acures per family and the use of army mules. soon afterward about 40 th freed persons settled on 400th acres in coastal GA and SC |
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| landowners divided their land and gave each worker- either freed AAs or poor white a few acres. worker gave share of crop to land owner. |
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Was Reconstruction a success or a failure?
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| Accomplishments and Failures of Reconstruction |
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A: 1. universal male suffrage. 2. property rights for women. 3. debt relief. 4. internal improvements.
F: 1. wasteful spending. politicians took kickbacks and bribes from shady business men. 3. general decline in ethnics in post war era. |
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1.1862, the pacific railway act created the union pacific railway(Irish immigrants and cw vets) and the Central Pacific Railway (Chinese immigrants)
2, may 10th 1869 the 2 railroads meet at promontory pt utah
3. railroads were given 12 mil acres of land (from gov't), reduced travel time from 6 months to five days transcontinental. |
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| grassland that extends the western-central portion of the us |
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| offered 160 acres of land free to anyone that who would live on it and cultivate it for 5 years. pass in 1862. 1862-1900 400,000-600,000 families took advantage |
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| natives were expected to give up belifs and way of life in order to become part of the white culture. Dawes act was passed for this. |
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| 1887 passed in order to make an effort to make assimilation a official policy. broke up land reservations and gave land to each adlut head of native families |
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| settlers on free land from the homestead act. only 10% of land expect to be settled was actually taken |
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| enormous farms of 10000 acres or more. created by railrod companies and investors such as George Crass and Oliver Dalrymple |
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| leather overalls or chaps |
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| 1859 railroad conductor that used a steam engine to drill for oil in Titusville, PA. This made oil drilling pratical caused oil boom |
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| developed by British man named Henry Bessemer and iron maker William Kelly around 1850. produced quality steel form scrap metal and raw materials |
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| 1876 pioneer on industry frontier by est. the world's first research lab in menlo park, New Jersey. perfected the light blub |
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| Christopherr Shores and James Densmore |
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| invented the typewriter in 1867 and James improved and sold it in 1873 |
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| invented the telephone with Watson in 1876. Laid groundwork for worldwide communication network |
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| built factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on pranes miles from Chicago. increasing demand made his make a town for his workers |
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| construction company was formed by stockholders in the Union Pacific Raliroad that enabled them to skim money. They gave the company a contract to lay track for 2-3 times the cost and donated shares of stock to congress to prevent meddling. 1867 |
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| passed in 1887 that reestablished the right for federal gov't to supervise railroad activities and est. 5 member interstate commerce commission for that purpose |
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| how many miles of track in 1890? |
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white: 10 hr day, $40-60 per mont, free meals
Chinese: dawn to dusk, $35 a mont, no food |
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good: clean, well constructed. brickhouses and apartments w/ at least 1 window in every room. had medical, legal offices, shops, church, library, theater, and athletic field
bad: highly company controlled. no loitering or alcohol. dissatisfaction let to violent strike in 1894 |
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| How did Buffalo Soldiers get the name 'buffalo soldiers?' |
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| the indians were reminded of buffalo by the black men's color, short hair, and tenacity |
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| Who taught the soldiers to read and write? |
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| List various roles of the buffalso soldiers |
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| escorts, guards, peace keepers, map makers, scouters, fought and tracked indians |
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