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| aid former slaves through legal food and housing, oversight, education, health care, and employment contracts with private landowners. It became a key agency during Reconstruction, assisting freedmen (freed ex-slaves) in the South. |
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| Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land |
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| Rebuilding of South from 1863-1877, Jim Crow, U.S Military. It failed. |
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| Meant to protect rights of blacks following 14th amendment |
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| unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election, regarded as the second "corrupt bargain", and ended Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction (Hayes) |
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| The New South was no longer to be dependent on banned slave labor or predominantly upon the raising of cotton, but rather industrialized and part of a modern national economy. Railroad and Manufacturing. |
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| The agreement was that Southern blacks would work weekly and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law |
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| 1909 to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination |
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| egalitarian, democratic, aggressive, and innovative features of the American character has been the American frontier experience |
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| Nativism typically means opposition to immigration and efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien |
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| upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| March 10, 1869, national economy,jobs,transported freight |
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| 1887, regulated monopolistic railroad practices. Reasonable and just rates |
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| Vertical/Horizontal Integration |
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| H-Firm Merging V-Firm owning production& Supply |
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| social and cultural uplift of the workingman, rejected Socialism and radicalism, demanded the eight-hour day, and promoted the producers |
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| 1892 American Federation of Labor-secure shorter hours and higher wages, the first essential steps, he believed, to emancipating labor |
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| 1894-wage reduction,in Pullman Palace Car company-train cars |
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| sought to apply biological concepts to sociology and politics |
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| "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City |
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| Women's Christian Temperance Union |
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| first mass organization among women devoted to social reform |
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| applied Christian ethics to social problems,Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century |
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| political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts |
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| organized agrarian economic movement amongst U.S. farmers that flourished in the 1880s,higher commodity prices through collective action |
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| federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit/civil service |
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| Private financial institutions-gold standardrd/Gov't Regulate Money Loose standard inflation |
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| People against the elite Populist-1896 |
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| Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism |
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| Democrat Anti Imperialist Sea Power |
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| Secession of Philippines Islands from Spanish empire |
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| Stimulates conditions for withdrawal of U.S Troops in Cuba |
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| Foreign Affairs policy in 1899-keep ports open to ships of all nations |
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| Corollary in Monroe Doctrine, U.S will intervene in Conflicts between European nations and Latin America |
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