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| Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west |
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| Armed conflict against Indians that ends in Indian victory, annihiliating the entire US cavalry. Also referred to as Custer's Last Stand |
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| Bill that promised Indians tracts of land to farm in order to assimilate them into white culture. The bill was resisted, uneffective, and disastrous to Indian tribes |
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| Spiritual revival in 1890 by Indians that would lead to the massacre at Wounded Knee |
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| Last armed conflict between Sioux and US, instigated by overzealous Ghost Dance |
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| Inventor of lightbulb, phonograph and numerous other innovations |
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| Organization of workers for the purpose of increased lobbying power for benefits and wages |
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| Labor union founded by Uriah S. Stephens in 1869, that grew out of the collapse of the National Labor Union and was replaced by AF of L after a number of botched strikes |
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| The original national labor federation that, after its decline, paved the way for othe runions |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| Federation of craft labor unions lead by Samuel Gompers that arose out of dissatisfaction with the Knights of Labor |
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| A planned strike by the Knights of Labor results in police confrontation and a bomb |
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| 4000 railcar workers strike in response to 28% pay cut, bringing a halt to Chicago traffic. Cleveland deploys the United States Marshalls to break up the strike, and Eugene V. Debs gets sent to jail to become a Socialist |
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| Established in 1870, it was a integrated multinational oil corporation lead by Rockefeller |
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| Practice where a single entity controls an entire aspect of production, ensuring that everyone must go through you |
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| Industrialist and philanthropist responsible for creation of Standard Oil |
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| Established in 1901 by J.P. Morgan and Carnegie, it was a combination of steel operations into a single corporation |
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| Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution |
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| Industrialist and Philanthropist responsible for U,S, Steel |
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| Family of railroad moguls |
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| Banker and Philanthropist who dominated finance, helping create General Electric and U.S. Steel |
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| First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially misused against labor unions |
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| 19th president, Republican, succeeding Grant, didn't do much after the contested election against Tilden |
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| 22nd and 24th president, Democrat, Honest and hardworking, fought corruption, vetoed hundreds of wasteful bills, achieved the Interstate Commerce Commission and civil service reform, violent suppression of strikes |
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| 25th president, Republican, Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism |
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| He was a Spanish General referred to as "Butcher" Weyler. He undertook to crush the Cuban rebellion by herding many civilians into barbed-wire reconcentration camps, where they could not give assistance to the armed insurrectionists. The civilians died in deadly pestholes. "Butcher" was removed in 1897. |
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| He was a Spanish minister in Washington who wrote a private letter to a friend concerning President McKinley (called him basically usless and indecisive) The discovery of his letter strained Spanish-American relations, which helped initiate the Spanish-American War. |
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| 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War |
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| a United States naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War, U.S. naval commander who led the American attack on the Philippines |
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| Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899, but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901 |
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| policy of moving Cubans to detention camps so that they could not aid rebels |
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| A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. |
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| The sinking of this U.S. battleship in Havanna, Cuba which the U.S. blamed on Spain was the main cause of the Spanish-American War. |
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| This Amendment was drafter by Henry M. Teller which declared that the US had no desire for control in Cuba & pledged the US would leave the island alone. |
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| The First United States Volunteer Calvary, a mixure of Ivy League athletes and western frontiermen, volunteered to fight in the Spanish-American War. Enlisted by Theodore Roosevelt, they won many battles in Florida and enlisted in the invasion army of Cuba. |
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| Signed by the United States and Spain in December 1898, this treaty ended the Spanish-American War. Under its terms: |
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| objected to the annexation of the Philippines and the building of an American empire. Idealism, self-interest, racism, constitutionalism, and other reasons motivated them, but they failed to make their case; the Philippines were annexed in 1900 |
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| This act established Puerto Rico as an unorganized U.S. territory. Puerto Ricans were not given U.S. citizenship, but the U.S. president appointed the island's governor and governing council. |
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| Legislation that severely restricted Cuba's sovereignty and gave the US the right to intervene if Cuba got into trouble |
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| a hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war; fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes |
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| the geographical area in which one nation is very influential, especially in terms of special trading privileges and laws for its own citizens |
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| Even before the Philippines was annexed by the U.S. there existed tension between U.S. troops and Filippinos. The situation deteriorated and eventually we entered into a war with the Philippines. Emilio Aguinaldo helped Americans fight Spain only to turn on them once free. In 1901, Aguinaldo surrendered which greatly hurt the Filippino cause. The Philippines was not an independent nation until July 4, 1946. |
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| McKinley and the U.S. were trying to assimilate the Philippines to help them become better. American dollars went to the Philippines to improve roads, sanitation, and public health. Although the U.S. might have looked intrusive, they were actually trying to improve the condition of the Philippines. |
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| A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China. |
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| 1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops |
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| Diplomatic policy developed by T.R where the "big stick" symbolizes his power and readiness to use military force if necessary. It is a way of intimidating countries without actually harming them and was the basis of U.S. imperialistic foreign policy. |
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| Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States Army engineers; it opened in 1915. It greatly shortened the sea voyage between the east and west coasts of North America. The United States turned the canal over to Panama on Jan 1, 2000 (746) |
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| Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force |
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| Also known as 10% plan, it was the most lenient of all reconstruction plans, with the objective of getting the Southern states back in as quickly as possible |
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| Amendment that abolishes slavery |
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| Welfare agency set up to help newly freed blacks with aid and education. Viciously attacked by the South |
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| Assassin who kills Lincoln in Ford's Theatre |
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| President who takes office after assassination of Lincoln |
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| Reconstruction plan that was the 10% plan plus pardons for Confederate officers and repudiated debts. It is passed while Congress is out of session |
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| Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves |
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| New mthod for blacks to find work, involved farming land and then paying back a portion of profits Likened to slavery |
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| Name of system that utilized share-cropping |
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| Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after civil war |
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| Congressional Reconstruction |
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| The "real" reconstruction plan, it involved the Radical Republican's plans which override Johnson's vetoes |
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| Amendment that grants full civil rights to Blacks and threatens to reduce voting proportions if right to vote is abridged |
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| Involved 5 military districts ruled by generals |
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| Civil Rights Bill of 1866 |
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| Bill that turns into the 14th amendment |
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| Acts that instated military reconstruction |
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| Amendment that guarantees right of suffrage to all men |
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| Makes it illegal for president to replace officers who have been confirmed by Congress without Congressional approval |
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| Popular Secretary of War who is fired by Johnson and leads to Johnson's impeachment |
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| Southerner in favor of reconstruction to garner political support |
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| Northerner who traveled south to make money off of the Reconstruction |
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| White supremacy organization that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties |
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| Point in Utah where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed |
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| President and former general whose presidency was racked by Scandal. |
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| Treasury officials collaborate with distillers to get around excise tax |
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| Compromise that enables Hayes to take office in return for the end of Reconstruction |
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| Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites |
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| Landmark court ruling that legalizes segregation |
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1860-1869: Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln: 1860-1865
Reconstruction =economical, social, political
-1865-1877
-failed to reunite country completely
-loyalty oaths: 10% of the South had to swear loyalty to union
-growing right wing republicans
-prejudice, Southerners still hate blacks |
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| Abraham Lincoln: 1860-1865 |
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| tried to force their views on reconstruction, wanted 70% to swear loyalty. Note,-Republicans wanted to give blacks this right so that they would be swayed to vote with Republicans |
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1st Reconstruction Act 1867
-C: Civil War
-E: splits the south into 5 military districts, each state must write new constitution, ALL citizens were allowed to vote |
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Tenure of Office Act
-Andrew Johnson- 1865-1869
-C: fired republican cabinet because he felt they were too radical
-E: Congress passed TO Act saying presidents had to get congressional approval to hire and fire cabinet members |
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General during Civil War under Lincoln. Later, as Presidnet: Ulysses S. Grant : 1869-1877
- CORRUPT CABINET
- Whiskey Ring Affair, cabinet members were taking money from taxes and pocketing |
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| Literacy test, grandfather clause, poll tax |
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-LT: test given to blacks before voting
- GC: you couldn’t vote if your g-pa hadn’t, paradox, no blacks would essentially ever get vote
-PT: charged voters money |
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| Scalawags & Carpet baggers |
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-Northerners who came to the South to start factories and employ blacks
-increased already high tension b/w blacks/southerners, and north/south |
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-Freedman’s Bureau: “40 acres and a Mule”
-gave blacks land to farm on, but was later stopped because it essentially stole land from white farmers |
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| sharecropping - crop lien system |
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Sharecropping/ Crop-Lien System
-white plantation owner would give black family farming materials in exchange for money or crops, owners made sure rent was higher than what family could make-basically slavery w/o room and board |
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KKK: Ku Klux Klan (1866)
-WASP, racist, participated in violent acts against blacks |
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Black Codes
-or Jim Crow Laws, prohibited blacks from voting and other rights in the south
Civil Rights Act -aimed to stop black codes |
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| -Democrats agreed to let win go to Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for a stop on the 1st Reconstruction Act |
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| -Time when the US was full of weak presidents, corrupted officials, and “looked good on the outside and ugly on the inside” |
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-protected American businesses
-didn’t want foreign goods competition
-currency lost value |
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- Plessy bought a first class ticket on a train, forced to move back with the blacks
-Supreme Court decided that separate but equal was legal, segregation was legal
-confrontation v. accommodation |
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-Indian Territory
-land in the Great Basin, OK, forced living situation |
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-“Running department stores”
-hunted almost to extinction |
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Sioux
Lakota: ND, SD
Dakota: SD, ND, MN, NE, MT
Nakota: ND, MN, MT
Cheyenne: CO
Arapaho: CO, OK, WY, NE
Nez Perce: ID |
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| Comanche, Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Nezperce |
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Comanche: High Plains/ CO, WY, NM, TX
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Lakota: ND, SD
Dakota: SD, ND, MN, NE, MT
Nakota: ND, MN, MT
Cheyenne: CO
Arapaho: CO, OK, WY, NE
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-Thomas Fitzpatrick gathered 10,000 Indians to have a conversation about reservation lands, etc.
-Indians were granted $50,000 over 50 years and set out specific territories, in exchange for free and safe passage for emigrants to the West (Oregon Trailers) |
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-Fetterman Incident-1866:
-Indians win, kill 81 of the Americans
-Battle of Little Big Horn-1876:
-Custer dies
-Crazy Horse/Sitting Bull
-US fails
-Ghost Dances of 1890
-involved Battle of Wounded Knee Massacre
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| relocation of Indians to the Plains area in order to get to certain mining areas |
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-Black Hills Gold Rush- 1877-1890
-Gold in SD |
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Battle of Little Big Horn-1876:
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| 1868 - grants citizenship to blacks |
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| 1870 - Black men given right to vote |
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-Ghost Dances of 1890
-involved Battle of Wounded Knee Massacre
-essentially ended Sioux Wars |
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Ghost Dances of 1890
-involved Battle of Wounded Knee Massacre
-essentially ended Sioux Wars |
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-Comstock Lode 1860-1880
-Silver/gold mining in Nevada
-Big Bonanza |
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-Comstock Lode 1860-1880
-Silver/gold mining in Nevada
-Big Bonanza |
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-Homestead Act of 1862
-signed into law by Abe Lincoln
-tried to get people to move west, 60,000 acres per family/$10 registration fee
-farming expensive, had to work for 7 years
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-up to 320 possible acres, if trees were planted on ¼ of the additional land
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| -gave people land in the desert if they promised to make irrigation canals |
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-land sold in 160 acre lots for mining and logging as it was deemed unfit for farming.
-CA, NV, OR, WA |
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| National Reclamation Act 1902 |
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-funded irrigation projects for 20 states of the American West
-climate=blizzards, plague, drought, extreme temps |
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-1850-1870=200 mil. acres
-Union Pacific, Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific |
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| -gave grants to UP and CP to build rail lines to cross county for transport, mail and telegraph services |
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| Union Pacific and Central Pacific |
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-built by Irish Immigrants
-CP= W/E
-built by Chinese Immigrants
-met on May 10, 1893 in Promontory, Utah= emptiest place in the US! |
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- Pop boom, more food, thrive on Great Plains = mid-south
-open range cattle
-Big in Texas, cowboys/vaqueros
-drive from Texas to Kansas
-Slaughter Towns: St. Louis, Greenback, Chicago
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| -trail used by cattlemen when taking cattle from Texas to Kansas for sale |
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-Trunk lines=main lines run down the east coast
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-1867: New York Central Line, NY-Chicago
-beginning of big business |
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-all train tickets would be fixed at original purchase time
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-the process used to mass produce steel, PA, OH, AL
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- at first useless before people had uses for it
-first use: Trains
-Rockefeller had stock
-1870’s beginning of refineries
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-modern research lab, phonograph, picture projector, storage battery, electric lightbulb
-electricity=allowed factories to stay open later, work became easier, helped city growth
-Edison Illuminating Company: 1882
-supply electricity to houses/business
-made cities safer at night
-changed home life |
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-Edison Illuminating Company: 1882
-supply electricity to houses/business
-made cities safer at night
-changed home life |
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-Morgan-banking/rail, Carnegie-steel, Vanderbilt-railroads, Rockefeller-oil, Hearst-news
-when one company owns/controls a specific market |
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-banker
-railways: NY, PA lines
-fixed cost, rebates
-buys Carnegie Steel for $½ billion in 1901 |
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| from Scotland, 1872-Steel, 1878 Brooklyn Bridge, 1890=$40 million |
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| -sale from Carnegie to Morgan, name changes |
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-when one company owns the entire process of making something
-C: Morgan bought the mountain, the railroad from mt to factory and out to sales, no middle man
-E:MONOPOLY for Morgan=$$$ |
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-Rockefeller, 1870, destroyed competition
-reduced cost,
-Sherman Anit-Trust Act 1890- gov. act trying to stop monopolies from forming |
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-convince ppl to buy your product
-rotary press advertisements, made cheap image prints for easier advertising
-brand names |
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-A&P Grocery, 1859
-F.W. Woolworth
-5 and dime store |
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-Sears & Roebuck, Montgomery Ward
-Improved literacy |
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-1866 NLU: National Labor Union
-allowed immigrants and unskilled
-1869 KoL: Knights of Labor
-allowed only citizens and skilled laborers
-Uriah S. Stevens
-garment workers
-fought for 8 hr day, no children, each man own employer
-American Federation of Labor
-labor militancy = strikes, boycott, scabs
-Homestead Steel Plant
-strike at Carnegie’s Steel plant
-women and children workers
-made half what men did
-1870=%15
-1900=%20 in textile industry alone
-women= less time at home/family life: nurses, teachers, librarians and secretaries |
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-Homestead Steel Plant
-strike at Carnegie’s Steel plant |
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women and children workers
-made half what men did
-1870=%15
-1900=%20 in textile industry alone
-women= less time at home/family life: nurses, teachers, librarians and secretaries |
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1866 -1915= 25 mil immigrants
-1856-Great Eastern is launched, helped bring immigrants to America
-by 1870, 1/3 of US was foreign |
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-1862-1924
-helped control lower classes and disease spread
-350,000 from GB, 32 K from Italy, 17 K from Russia |
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-C: overproduction, over investment, too much RR, large debts of famers and manufacturers
-E: failed business, stock market panic, banks failed, high unemployment |
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| the practice of extending the power of a nation |
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-the US would stay out of Euro business, if Euro stays out of N./S. America
-proposed by president Monroe 1823 |
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US wanted to annex Hawaii, queen said no. US wanted sugar cane.
-Queen wanted tax to buy sugar, Hawaiin people revolt and deport her
-US annexes HI, makes it a state, gets tax free sugar |
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| -blockade of Cuba: sent arms to Cuban rebels to overthrow Spaniards |
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- Cuba= Spanish Colony
-1898 US recognizes Cuban Independence |
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-gave Cuban rebels 10 days to give up their fight
-aka “The Butcher 1896 |
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After the Maine was destroyed,[37] newspaper publishers Hearst and Pulitzer decided that the Spanish were to blame, and they publicized this theory as fact in their New York City papers using sensationalistic and astonishing accounts of "atrocities" committed by the Spanish in Cuba. Their press exaggerated what was happening and how the Spanish were treating the Cuban prisoners.[38] The stories were based on truth but written with incendiary language causing emotional and often heated responses among readers.
As the brutality of the Spanish authorities was graphically reported in U.S. newspapers, especially Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, the U.S. public began to support an independent Cuba.
-yellow journalism
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On Feb 15 1898 the USS Maine, blew up in Guantanamo Bay
-thought to be blown up by Spanish, but really just a boiler
On the evening of February 15, 1898, the ship was sunk by a tremendous explosion, the cause of which was never determined. U.S. outrage at the loss of 266 sailors and the sensationalism of the New York press led to cries of "Remember the Maine" and demands that the United States intervene militarily in Cuba. |
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| letter from the Spanish diplomat to US detailing the horrid actions of Americans and how rude they were to Europeans. Hearst published it. Americans were furious, it led to Spanish American War |
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| How Theodore Roosevelt referred to the Spanish American War |
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| US sent warships to blockade Cuban ports, to stop Spanish from Reinforcing troops in Cuba |
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The Spanish-American War of 1898 lasted only a few months. It resulted in a U.S. victory that not only ended Spain's colonial rule in the Western Hemisphere but also marked the emergence of the United States as a world power, as it acquired Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam.
The conflict had its origins in Spain's determined effort in the 1890s to destroy the Cuban independence movement. As the brutality of the Spanish authorities was graphically reported in U.S. newspapers, especially Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, the U.S. public began to support an independent Cuba.
In 1897 Spain proposed to resolve the conflict by granting partial autonomy to the Cubans, but the Cuban leaders continued to call for complete independence. In December 1897, the U.S. battleship Maine was sent to Havana to protect U.S. citizens and property.
President William McKinley, who had originally opposed intervention, approved an April 20 congressional resolution calling for immediate Spanish withdrawal from Cuba. This resolution precipitated a Spanish declaration of war against the United States on April 24. Congress immediately reciprocated and declared war on Spain on April 25, stating that the United States sought Cuban independence but not a foreign empire.
The war itself was brief due to the inferiority of the Spanish forces. On May 1, 1898, the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay in the Philippines was destroyed by the U.S. Navy under the command of Commodore George Dewey. On July 3, U.S. troops began a battle for the city of Santiago, Cuba. Roosevelt and his First Volunteer Cavalry, the "Rough Riders," led the charge up San Juan Hill; he emerged as one of the war's great heroes. With the sinking of the Spanish fleet off the coast of Cuba on July 3 and the capture of Santiago on July 17, the war was effectively over. |
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| Com. Dewey led his fleet into Spanish port in Philipines, fought five ships and sunk all |
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| leader of the rebels against Spain, brought there by Americans, who then turned on him once Spain was out, to take over Philipines for US |
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| On July 3, U.S. troops began a battle for the city of Santiago, Cuba. Roosevelt and his First Volunteer Cavalry, the "Rough Riders," led the charge up San Juan Hill; he emerged as one of the war's great heroes. |
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| Theodore Roosevelt's military exploits in Cuba catapulted him onto the national stage and led to the vice presidency and, ultimately, the presidency. |
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| On July 3, U.S. troops began a battle for the city of Santiago, Cuba. Roosevelt and his First Volunteer Cavalry, the "Rough Riders," led the charge up San Juan Hill; he emerged as one of the war's great heroes. With the sinking of the Spanish fleet off the coast of Cuba on July 3 and the capture of Santiago on July 17, the war was effectively over. |
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| The result was the 1898 Treaty of Paris, negotiated on terms favorable to the U.S., which allowed temporary American control of Cuba, ceded indefinite colonial authority over Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine islands[a] from Spain |
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| Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? |
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| question asked by anti-imperialists to US gov |
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1898-1901, US wanted to annex the Philipines. Aguinaldo took up arms and used guerilla warfare to undermine US control. he was caught in 1901.
-75 K US died, 200K filipinos died, leads to Philipine commission |
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| Philipine Commission 1900 |
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| made William Toft governor of Phil. gave Phil. roads, schools, judicial system, sanitation and hospitals |
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| gave Puerto Rico democracy and US withdrew military from Cuba |
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| allowed US intervention in Cuba, with the inclusion of a Naval Base in Guantanimo Bay, and disallowed Cuban treaties with other countries |
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| US naval base in Cuba, founded 1903 |
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| when one country pays off another counrty's debt, so that that country owes the other its debt |
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| 1902-1903, corollary to Monroe Doctrine, whereby the US steps in when conflicts b/w Latin American and Europe are present. Ex. Venezuela owed money to GB and Germany, US paid off debts. |
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foreign policy with Asia, early 1800's Asia was overcome by Japan, GB, Germany, France, Russia-divided into Spheres of influence.
-US asks for all to respect our trading rights
-1900 allowed to trade with Asia (China mainly) |
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| different controlling interests in Asia |
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Chinese terroists trying to rid the country of foreigners.
-the walls on fire
US saves day and fights and beats Boxers |
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| -US mediates b/w Japan and Russia, problems with Manchuria |
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| Panama Canal - Canal Zone |
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section of land where the US wanted to finish building the Panama Canal after the French had left.
-started 1903, completed 1914 |
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| -started in 1903, US wanted Panama to revolt against Columbia so US could take Canal Zone |
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| "Speak softly and carry a big stick" |
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| Teddy Roosevelt's motto about foreign diplomacy |
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