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Lincoln’s Plan

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  • Elimination of slavery
  • 10% plan (white southerners sign loyalty oath)
  • reconstructions controlled by president
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Wade Davis Bill

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Demanded 50% loyalty

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Andrew Johnson

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Southern democrat, strange compared for Lincoln, some say he was illiterate drunkard

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Johnsons Plan

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  • loyalty pledge, with property exclusions
  • nullify succession
  • get rid of debt
  • ratify 13th amendment
  • give limited voting rights to AA
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Radical Republicans

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  • black codes
  • dis liked Johnson
  • Freeman’s bureau
  • impeached Johnson
  • 14th and 15th amendments
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Freeman’s Bureau

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Tried to give land to AA

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Ku klux Klan

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Formed in Tennessee
Terrorized AA
Leader named Nathan B. Forrest

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Carpetbaggers

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Northern immigrants coming to south

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Scalawags

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Southern immigrants coming north/ southern traders

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Sharecropping

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  • slaves worked for master with little pay
  • owners offered to give slaves land to profit from w/ 50% has to go to master
  • process didn’t work out
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Tilden v Hayes

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  • close election
  • dispute over electoral college votes
  • Hayes wins in exchange for the withdraw of federal troops from south and agreement to give southerners federal jobs
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Transcontinental RR

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  • MOST important development in the Gilded Age
  • federal government authorized in 1862
  • tracks built in two directions, Omaha to the west, Sacramento to the east
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Rail roads

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  • First big business
  • prospered b/c of contributions from state and federal government
  • gave US a national government
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Why did people move west?

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Land: drive cattle
Money: mining towns
Freedom: Mormons religious freedom
Cowboys: 15 years span/ symbolism of America

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Who lived out west

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  • Native Americans

- new settlers

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Homestead act

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Government gave land to people if they agree to farm on a certain % of it

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What happened at custards last stand

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  • The new settlers were mining on Lakota land
  • so the Indians left the reservation
  • Custer knew if he destroyed the NA then he would be famous
  • but clusters army was destroyed by NA because he didn’t wait for reinforcement
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Dawes Severalty Act

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  • Basically homestead act for NA

- it was a way to Americanize NA

19
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Wounded knee

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  • Lincoln sent US forces to Lakota land to make peace

- when they got there, the NA’s were dancing and US troops shot many NA’s

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What was the south like during the gilded age

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  • slowly industrialized
  • textile mills everywhere
  • iron business in Alabama
  • Henry Grady, new south
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What was the north like during the gilded age?

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  • railroads allowed for other big cities
  • steel business grows
  • Andrew Carnegie becomes famous
22
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Who was Andrew Carnegie?

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  • born poor in Scotland
  • tags to riches story
  • by 1900 he was making 40 million a year
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Carnegies strategies for success

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  • Bessemer Killy process(segment truck for steel)
  • Discounts from railroads
  • kept plants open 24 her a day
  • work 12 hour shifts
  • cut worker wages
  • prevent or eliminate unions
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“Gospel of Wealth”

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  • Written by Andrew Carnegie
  • directed towards rich people
  • big philanthropy after death
25
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Who were the Knights of Labor

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  • Unionized all workers

- they wanted children to not work, end prison labor, abolition of alcohol

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Haymarket massacre

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  • Protesting in Chicago and police open fire and they killed 4 protesters
  • they go the next day to protest police brutality and they bomb which kills 8 police
27
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What was the American federation of labor like?

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  • disliked striking
  • strong leadership
  • white men only
  • impact of unions
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Why did people move to the north?

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  • more work
  • housing has steam heated tenements
  • but they had dirty streets and very crowded houses
29
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Who immigrated from Eastern Europe and where did they to?

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  • Romania
  • Bulgaria
  • Russia
  • went to Ellis island
30
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What was gilded age education like?

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  • School for education and obedience and not just for preachers
  • school for women started to form
  • black college formed
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Morrison land grant act 1862

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Gives large tracks of lands to college

32
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Comstock law

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Forbids the distribution of pornography to protect morality

33
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What was politics in the gilded age like?

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  • hotly debated
  • equally divided with tight elections
  • large turnout for elections
  • each blames other side for civil war
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Why were farmers discontent?

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  • hated good and bad weather
  • transportation costs (railroads)
  • hated new technology
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Farmers alliance

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  • Wanted to get out of debt
  • lead by Charles Manune
  • pool resources so everyone was not seeking the same thing
  • hated middle man between farmers and consumer
  • wanted free coinage of silver

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