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| What century did Herodotus live in? |
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| What was Herodotus referred to as? |
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What did Herodotus write?
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The Histories
An account of wars b/w Greece and Persia |
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| What did the Histories explain? |
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- Told a story, honored glorious deed
- Explained why events occured
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| Who lived in the 5th century B.C.? |
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| Who is known as the "Father of Scientific History"? |
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| What story did Thucydides write? |
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| The History of the Peloponnesian War |
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| What was Thucydides story written about? |
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| The accounts of civil war b/w Sparta and Athens |
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| What is a primary source? |
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| Accounts developed by people who experienced or witnessed the events being studied |
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| Examples of primary sources |
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| autobiographies, diaries, letters, gov. documents, speeches, etc. |
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| What are secondary sources? |
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| Developed by people who study them but didn't experience them |
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| When were secondary sources often created? |
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| Examples of Secondary sources |
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| Articles, biographies, books, etc. |
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| What is the difference b/w traditional and new histories? |
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Traditional history: Top-bottom (ex) Politics, military, diplomacy, great figures
New histories: Bottom-top (ex) ordinary folk, marginalized peoples, the poor, the oppressed |
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| What distinguishes academic history from public history? |
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Academic history- is in classrooms (ex) articles, presentations, historical sites
Public Histories- History outside the classroom (ex) Museums, presentations, historical |
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| When did the Emancipation Proclamation take place? |
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| Lincoln issued it after the battle of Antietam |
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| Whats the date of the Emancipation Proclamation? |
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-Fight to finish
-Direct challenge to society of the old South
-Enrollment of black into Union Army |
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| How many blacks were enrolled into the Union Army? |
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| With blacks in union army what does it undermine? |
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| Undermines Slavery (north and south) |
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| Who marched to sea broke the souths will to fight? |
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| When did General Lee surrender to grant and where? |
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April 9, 1865
Appomattox, Virgina |
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| How many people died in the Civil War? |
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| In total, how many people died in the Civil War? |
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| What was the cost of the Civil War? |
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| What did the 15th amendment guarantee? |
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| The right to vote, regardless of race |
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| Local and state laws that reduced newly freed slaves to a condition close to slavery |
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| is a type of farm tenancy and landless workers (often former slaves) farmed land in exchange for farm supplies and share of crop |
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| What was the Ku Klux Klan's 2 goals? |
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1) Social control of freed slaves
2) Destroy Republican party in the South |
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| Who were the 2 running against each other in the election of 1876? |
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Reb. Rutherford B. Hayes
Demo. Samuel J. Tilden |
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| What date was the election commission formed for the election of 1876? |
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| What year was Lincolns 10% Plan? |
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| What is Lincolns 10% Plan? |
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| specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union |
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| Are white southern unionist |
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| Northerners that jumped at the opportunity to move to the South in the wake of the Confederacy’s defeat. Some moved from the North to promote education, others to modernize the South, and others to seek their fortune |
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| Who ended up winning the election of 1876? |
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| Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) |
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| What is the republicans will for the Compromise of 1877? |
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- Recognize Democratic control in southern states
- Stay out of local affairs
- Federal land to Suthern RR
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| What was the Democrats of the Compromise of 1877? |
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- Not dispute election of Hayes
- Respect the civil and political rights of blacks
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| What did the Compromise of 1877 represent? |
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| The end of Reconstruction |
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| What were Crop-lien systems? |
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| storekeppers extend credit, place lein or harvest. Unfair manipulations creat perpetual debt. |
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| Who was Jim Crow and what did he aim for? |
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- He wanted deomcrats ("Reedemers") in political control
- Postwar: Infromal Segregation
- 1890's: systematic state-level legal statues of racial segregation
- Made "Jim Crow" laws
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| How were the Jim Crow laws able to take affect? |
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| legality affirmed w/ supreme court decision |
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| Where was Homer Plessy from? |
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| What did Homer Plessy test for trial? |
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| Tests railcar segregation law 1892 |
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| What happend in the Supreme Court for the Plessy V. Ferguson trial? |
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| Opens doors for legal segregation on massive scale and enables more Jim Crow laws. |
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| Who was Fredrick Turner and what did he do? |
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- Prominent American Historian
- His ideas would define history of the Amer. West for nearly a century
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What book did Fredrick Turner write?
What year was it written? |
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- "The Signifgance of the Frontier in Amer. History"
- 1893
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| In Turner's view all U.S. History =? |
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| Colinization of the great western settlement and development |
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| What does the Frontier promote? |
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- Individualism
- Independence
- Democracy
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| What helped Western Movement in Turner's idea? |
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- Federal government was essential
- Republicans dominated congress linked internal improvements to nation
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What was the Timber Act?
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- gave away land if trees were planted on it
- 1873
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What was the Desert Land Act?
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- Gave land away if it was irrigated
- 1862
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What is the Department of Agriculture Act?
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- Provided information that'll be helpful for farmers
- 1889
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What did the Morill Act do?
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- were allowed land to build schools (LSU)
- 1862
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| What were the realities not in Turner's thesis? |
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- Railroads, land grants, Big business
- Cattle Business (Boom & Bust Cycle)
- Mining
- Indians...
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| What did Turner never mention about? |
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| Turner thought the West was simply what? |
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| When did reservations for the indians begin? |
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| When were the Indian Wars? |
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