Exam 1 Flashcards
Lincoln’s Plan
- Elimination of slavery
- 10% plan (white southerners sign loyalty oath)
- reconstructions controlled by president
Wade Davis Bill
Demanded 50% loyalty
Andrew Johnson
Southern democrat, strange compared for Lincoln, some say he was illiterate drunkard
Johnsons Plan
- loyalty pledge, with property exclusions
- nullify succession
- get rid of debt
- ratify 13th amendment
- give limited voting rights to AA
Radical Republicans
- black codes
- dis liked Johnson
- Freeman’s bureau
- impeached Johnson
- 14th and 15th amendments
Freeman’s Bureau
Tried to give land to AA
Ku klux Klan
Formed in Tennessee
Terrorized AA
Leader named Nathan B. Forrest
Carpetbaggers
Northern immigrants coming to south
Scalawags
Southern immigrants coming north/ southern traders
Sharecropping
- 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
Tilden v Hayes
- 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
Transcontinental RR
- 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
Rail roads
- First big business
- prospered b/c of contributions from state and federal government
- gave US a national government
Why did people move west?
Land: drive cattle
Money: mining towns
Freedom: Mormons religious freedom
Cowboys: 15 years span/ symbolism of America
Who lived out west
- Native Americans
- new settlers
Homestead act
Government gave land to people if they agree to farm on a certain % of it
What happened at custards last stand
- 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
Dawes Severalty Act
- Basically homestead act for NA
- it was a way to Americanize NA
Wounded knee
- 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
What was the south like during the gilded age
- slowly industrialized
- textile mills everywhere
- iron business in Alabama
- Henry Grady, new south
What was the north like during the gilded age?
- railroads allowed for other big cities
- steel business grows
- Andrew Carnegie becomes famous
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
- born poor in Scotland
- tags to riches story
- by 1900 he was making 40 million a year
Carnegies strategies for success
- 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
“Gospel of Wealth”
- Written by Andrew Carnegie
- directed towards rich people
- big philanthropy after death
