Term
|
Definition
| wrote the Atlanta Consitution to preach the gospel of industry |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Used portable tobacco (traveling around and selling it) 1872: 125,00 lbs sold |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Used ads, undersold competitors, cornered supply. Discovered hydro-electric power |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1905 to eletrify the rivers |
|
|
Term
| Difference between Sharecroppers and Tenant Farmers |
|
Definition
| Sharecroppers had more (such as supplies) yet they were both treated like slaves |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Merchants would give supplies for mortgages which created a circle of debt |
|
|
Term
| What did the Bourbon Redeemers do? |
|
Definition
Cut back prisons and convict leasing, cut back school costs (only a few more teachers than students) many illerate people out there. Forgot nothing, but learned nothing repudated half of what half of what bondholders and creditors had Stil had blacks in politics from around (1890-1908)
|
|
|
Term
| How did people keep blacks from voting? |
|
Definition
Intimidation Poll tax and literacy test (also took out the poor whites) "grandfather clause" (1898): if grandpa could vote then 1867 and the understanding clause, if understood the Dec of Ind then that was okay
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1896 Homer Plessy to refuse leaving a white railcar |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Iola nicknamed, began writing in the Memphis Free Speech after being denied a seat in a railcar. After her friends were lynched, she founded th NAACP where she criticized the Jim Crow Laws, and fought for womens rights |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| to not worry about equality to secure self financially in his "Atlanta Compromise" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| To fight through segreagation to get to politics, against Washingtons views |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
The Advantage of Living in a Free State to recruit people to Kansas. 1878 brough 200 people to 7500 acres of land |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Buffalo soliders Maintained forts, mapped vast areas, telegraph, protect rails |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Challenge mining companies Woodruff V North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Town Company. Lorenzo Sawyer presiding. When Marysville CA had been buried in debris, and so it was outlawed to dump debris there |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1887 Indians to individual land ownership. 160 acres of land to family but caused 130 mil acres of lost land. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| run a rail from praire to Chicago for meat. |
|
|
Term
| Refrigeration methods invented by who? |
|
Definition
GH Hammond from Boston to Chicago Gustavus Swift: mechanical refrig |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| "The Signifcance of the Frontier in American History" end of the open range wars over. People come for practical wealth. |
|
|
