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| What are the three main themes of this course? |
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1. Race and Ethnic Relations
2. The Role of Government
3. The U.S. in the World |
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| What kind of source is our book? |
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| Primary Source rather than a Secondary Source |
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| When was the US considered to be a major power? |
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| By the end of the 19th Century. (They weren't really a major power in 1865 |
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| What was the time period from 1865-1877 called? |
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| What are the three key terms for Reconstruction? |
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Freedmen,
Black Codes,
and Compromise of 1877 |
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| The time period right after the Civil War where America rebuilds their country. |
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| What two things does Reconstruction mainly focus on rebuilding? |
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| Their actual buildings, and bringing the people together. |
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| (Obvious answer) Who fought in the Civil War? |
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| The former slaves who are now free as a result of the Civil War. |
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| How many freedmen are there? |
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| What were slaves refereed to as? |
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| What did slave owners think about the freedmen? |
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| They saw this as a loss because slaves helped there business run faster and cheaper |
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| What was the saying that went around about the freedmen because no one knew how free they were, and they wanted to make up for all they did to them? |
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| At the end of the Civil War, what happened to Abraham Lincoln? Who took over? |
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| He was assassinated and his Vice president Andrew Johnson took over from 1865-1869. |
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| What did Johnson do in reconstruction? |
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| Nothing really. He was on the Southern Whites side and didn't really care about the freedmen |
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| What type of stage was Johnson in? (He said it in class) |
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| Southern Intransigence stage |
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| What is a Southern Intransigence stage? |
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| Stubborn opposition (Refusal to compromise) |
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| What did Southern Whites form to keep their "Southern Way of Life"? |
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| What are the Black Codes? |
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| Laws that put limitations on the black population in the South |
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| What kind of codes did they have before black codes? |
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| Slave Codes (They had to get rid of the word slave and change it to black) |
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| What did the Vagrancy Law (under the black Code) say? |
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| Blacks who didn't have a job would have to go to prison and pay a fine to get out. |
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| Since blacks didn't have enough money to get out of prison, what happened? |
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| White people bought them out and made them work for them |
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| Some of the Black Codes restricted black men (freedmen) from owning land. |
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| This is just an important fact. |
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| What were Black Codes used for? |
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| To keep things like they use to be in the South |
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| Where a black person wants to be a farmer, but they don't have land, so they go to a white man who does have land and works on his farm. Basically another slave. You do all of the work and get only some of the crops while the owner of the land gets most of it |
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| What is building up in Share Cropping? |
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| What stopped the black codes? |
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| What did the 14th Amendment say? |
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| Everybody born in this country is equal |
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| What did the 15th Amendment say? |
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| Right to vote shall not be restricted |
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| For a short time after the civil war, late 1860's early 1870's, what did blacks engage in? |
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| Politics (Blacks sometimes had a majority |
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| What is counter reconstruction? |
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| When people want to hold their positions in the South. |
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| The blacks and the whites who helped the blacks |
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| When did Northerners lose their will about changing the Southerners view? Why? |
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| 1870's, Because other things were happening. |
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| What is an example of "other things happening? |
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| The Battle of Little Big Horn when U.S. tried to expand west |
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| In the South, what was the standard way of thinking? |
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| That blacks were inferior |
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| Only a handful of whites up North helped the Blacks in the South. Most didn't care. |
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| Who was elected in the election of 1876? |
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| What years were Rutherford B. Hayes president and was he Republican or Democratic? |
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| During 1877, were Republicans more in the North or the South? |
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| North, Democrats were in the South |
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| Why did southern democrats let Hayes take office? |
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| If they let him take office, he would have to stop the reconstruction period |
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| If Republicans let Rutherford B. Hayes take office, he would have to stop the reconstruction period. What was this called? |
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| How did people who supported Reconstruction view the Compromise of 1877? Why? |
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| As a tragedy because Southern Whites received HOME RULE (self- governance) |
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| What is Industrialization? |
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| A new way of producing goods. |
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| What three things did Industrialization do? |
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1. Created factories
2. Created mass production
3. The rise of machines |
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| What did machines still need? |
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| What are the three keys terms under Industrialization? |
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Deskilling
Capitalism
Andrew Carnegie |
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| During Industrialization, everything is changing. |
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| What was the first Country to go through an industrial revolution? When? |
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| What was the main type of factories that we began with? |
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| Textile mills (Fabrics, clothes, etc.) |
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| How did the U.S. get power to begin with? |
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| Later on, what produced steam for more power? |
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| Britain used a lot of coal because they had a lot. They ran out of wood. |
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| How were locomotives run? |
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| From the coal heating up the Iron |
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| When did the U.S. industrialize? How did they do it? |
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| In the late 19th Century (they were one of the first). In a sequence just like Britain |
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| What is an example of a smaller city rising up using machines? Bigger? |
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Lowell Massachusetts,
Boston Massachusetts |
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| What is better about bigger cities for factories? (3) |
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| More people, Trading hubb, maket, etc. |
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| How was Columbus founded, and why is it an exception to the South? |
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| Off of a river, The south was based off of raw materials |
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| With Industrialization, what two types of people are effected? |
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| Who are Artisans? Apprentices? |
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Artisans- trained people in a specific area. They are their own boss
Apprentices- The person that is training with the Artisan. |
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| How are Artisan and Apprentices effected? |
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| Factories were underselling them making them to lose their jobs |
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| What did Artisanship become? |
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| Obsolete- No longer necessary |
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| Factories are quicker and cheaper. |
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| The skill being taken out of the production process |
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| How did factories mainly run? |
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| Broke up each section of the process of making something. It would assign each worker to a different job to speed up the process. This process was refereed to as unskilled labor |
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| Getting paid a set labor. example: 1 dollar each hour |
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| Local farmers use to sell their products to the people around them and make a good living, but what made for more of a competition? Why? |
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| Trains because non local farmers can move their crops to different areas. |
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| Why was urbanization a bad thing? |
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| Most Americans lived in the cities because that is where all of the jobs are etc. |
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| The cities created class divisions. What is an example of this? |
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Upper class (employers),
middle class (employees) |
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| The class division is creating a separate barrier between the upper and middle class. The Apprentice use to live with the Artisan, and now it is polarizing them. |
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| In 1865, what were the 4 industrial leaders? |
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1. Britain
2. Germany
3. France
4. U.S.A. |
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| In the 19th Century, what were the 4 industrial leaders? |
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1. U.S.A.
2. Britain
3. Germany
4. France |
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