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| There are 200,000 miles of these by 1897. |
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| Transcontinental railways |
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| The new south wanted _____________-. Henry Grandy was an important writer about this. |
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| What two industries in the south grew very fast and remarkably from 1880-1900? |
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| In 1890 what company did James Duke create? He owned 3/4 of production by 1904 |
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| The American Tabacco company? |
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| what were two NEW industries in the south? |
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| lumbering and coal mining |
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| T or F? There wasn't a lot of share cropping in the south. Most farmers were very successful. The crop prices were very low, that's bad. |
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| What negative effects did sharecropping and over cropping the south have on the enviornment? Name two things. |
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| soil lost fertility, caused silt to go into fresh water. |
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| small government southern local political heros were called "_______" because they were supposably saving the south. |
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| Redeemers were conservative, and made _______ do hard labor. They wanted to suppress blacks in ______. |
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| These southern guys wanted capitalism and big business in charge. |
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| what sensation was sweeping the south in the 1890s? |
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| Negrophobia was responded to by ____ _____ _____. People felt threatened by the new generation of better educated and more ambitious free black people. |
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| What did Jim Crow Laws do? |
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| Segregate white places and black places in the south |
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| Southern Bourbons wanted to take voting away from what two groups? |
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| Some states made literacy tests and poll taxes to make it harder for some groups to vote. A loop hole for whites was the __________ ___________: which stated that you could vote if your grandfather or father voted in 1867. This excluded a ton of blacks |
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| What was the famous case Plessy v. Ferguson about? |
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| a person who was only 1/8 black was told to leaves the white rail car to go to the black one |
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| near the turn of the century there were a lot of ___________ in the south |
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| She was an important african american activist. She worked to promote women's sufferage, helped make NAACP. |
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| wanted african americans to take a more passive approach to getting along with whites. Helped build Tuskee Alabama School |
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| First black graduate from Harvard. Critic of Booker T. Washington. Wanted Blacks to take an active role in getting equal treatment |
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| __________: blacks who fled the turmoil of the south and traveled west. |
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| why did whites try to block blacks who wanted to move west, by blocking their way to the mississippi river |
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| They wanted their labor on the farms |
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| why did the exodusters stop moving west in the 1880s? |
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| they realized it was hard life out in the west |
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| ____________ _________: black ex-war soldiers who were mapping, making forts, and driving out indians in west. Some won medals of honor. |
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| What was wrecking havoc on the enviornment in the west? |
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| What are two tragic events in history in which native americans were harmed unneccesarily? |
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| Sand Creek and WOUNDED knee |
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| Who was the dipshit who mined illegally in the Sioux hills that was given to the Indians? |
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| The Great Sioux war lasted 15 months. Who was leading it on the native side? |
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| What contributed to the demise of the buffalo? |
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| mass slaughtering, drought, cattle |
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| What year can Indians be citizens? What act gave each head of a Indian household 160 acres? (we took it alter) |
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| Cowtowns were usually along what? They mostly rounded up what? |
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| railroads, texas long horn. |
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| The advent of what invention changed a cowboys life the most? |
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| Barbed wire. No more open range. |
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| 1866-1886 was the era of the cowboy. Why did it end? |
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| 2 long winters, 10 years of drought. thieves and wolves |
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| cowboys fought with sheepards and each other over land. What was the name of a skirmish that lasted a year? |
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| Fence Cutters war 1883-1884 |
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| act that stated you could gain land by staking a claim and living there five years, or 1.25 an acre. |
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| The burbons wanted _______, while the redeemers wanted ____________ society. Redeemrs wanted _______ rights |
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| industrialization, agrarian. States |
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| A plan to use all power to make south like old south, make it impossible for blacks to gain power. |
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| 1871 Boss ______: plundered new york city treasurey for 200 mill. They fake public projects for years. |
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| In 1873 what party wanted to vote itself higher salaries to the point of being ridiculous while in officee? |
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| This important tariff slapped on a huge tax on all foreign items |
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| made uniform national currency. Wanted to back this up with gold standard. We don't have that now we use GDP. |
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| Ideas of Buy at your own risk. Idea of treating business as a _________.. |
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| A contract made between the employer and the employee, government is completely hands off. |
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