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lincolns 10% plan

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Lincoln issued pardons to those who swore loyalty to Union and accepted abolition of slavery

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freedmans bureau

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Federal agency established in 1865 to aid former slaves in their transition to freedom.

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sharecropping

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A system for renting farmland in which tenant farmers gave landlords a share of their crops, rather than cash, as rent

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black codes

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restrictions on african americans

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the klan

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Founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six former Confederate generals
Used terror to create a climate of fear
Attempted to resist all aspects of Reconstruction, restore white supremacy, and destroy the Republican Party

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plessy vs ferguson

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Upheld Louisiana law requiring segregation of railroad facilities
Argued the “separate but equal” was constitutional under the 14th Amendment

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black reconstruction

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the period of Reconstruction where African Americans took an active role in state and local government

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federal troops

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each district in the south had a commander that forced the law

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pacific rr act

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Gave loans tot eh Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad companies to subsidize construction of rail line between Omaha and the Pacific
Act also gave the companies 10 square miles of the public domain for every mile of track laid

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pools

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agreement to divide up the market and charge equal prices instead of allowing competition to set prices

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lobbying

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private entities (companies, interest groups, professional organizations) that attempt to influence public officials for or against a particular issue

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chicago

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grew due to railroads

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carl sanburg

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ran everything in chicago, grain markets, mail order sales, steel and iron production etc

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social darwinism

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based of darwins theory of evolution, survival of the fittest

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laissez faire capitalism

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The principle that the government should not interfere in the workings of the economy- grew out of Social Darwinism

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vertical vs horizontal integration

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vertical: all activites brought togetehr in one company, carnegie
horizontal: multiple companies of one activity are brought together, rockefeller

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carnegie

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largest steel mill in 1875, used bessemer process

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rockefeller

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Revolutionized old refining (kerosene)

Bought refinery after refinery, creating Standard Oil in 1870

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JP morgan

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Raised the capital necessary for the Railroads to grow.

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standard oil

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all oil was produced by companies ran by rockefeller

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carnegie steel

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largest steel mill, cut costs to raise profits

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plains indians

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blackfeet, crows, lakotas, etc.

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great sioux war

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operation to remove the indians to create a railroad

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medicine lodge treaty

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major southern plains tribes accepted lands Arizona and Oklahoma

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little bighorn

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Lt. Colonel George A Custer led him and all his men to there death at battle of big horn by the native americans

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alfred mahan

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president of naval war college, sea power is key

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social darwinism

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“progress” merged with belief that Anglo-Saxons were superior

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monroe doct

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Announced to the world the Western Hemisphere was off limits to European influence and control
No more European colonization would occur
Stated that the US was final decision making power in the region

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yellow journalsim

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Use of sensational stories, embellished reporting, and attention-grabbing headlines to sell papers

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the USS maine

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February 15, 1898
USS Maine anchored in Havana Harbor
Explosion rips through hull under the waterline after 10 pm
Yellow press immediately blamed Spain- submarine?

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Dewey

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US Naval commander in pacific in charge of crushing spanish fleet in the Phillipines

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treaty of paris 1898

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Spain had to surrender Cuba, cede Puerto Rico and Guam to US, and sell Philippines for 20 million

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yellow fever

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14 times as many men died of tropical disease than as a result of battle in Spanish American War

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progressive era

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lots of stuff happened, railroads regulated, regulate banks

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jeanette ranklin

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first woman elected to house of reps

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NAWSA

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worked to gain suffrage for all african american

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19th amendment

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The Right of Citizens in the United States to vote shall note be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex

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prohibition

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anti saloon league, towns and cities decide if they are dry or wet

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18th amendment

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ratification of the rules against alcohol

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NAACP

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fight for racial equality

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WEB Debuis

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first african male to recieve phd from harvard

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muckrackers

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progressive era journalists who wrote articles exposing corruption in city government, business, and industry

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the jungle

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book that exposed horrible working conditions in factories

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pure food and drug act

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law forbidding sale of impure and improperly labeled food and drugs. Will lead to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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trustbusting

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The use of anti trust laws to prosecute and dissolve big businesses (trusts)

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the square deal

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Teddy Roosevelt, square even deal for everyone and evey company

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natural recourses

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Gifford Pinchot- Natural Resources Advisor to President

Advocated preservation of land and the careful use and management of natural resources

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the panama canal

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Phillipe Bunau-Varilla, French engineer and stockholder in Panama route lobbied Congress to get the to approve funding to build Canal in Panama (not Nicaragua!)

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election of 1912

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Wilson, republican wins

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bull moose party

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teddy Roosevelt plan for election

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long and short term causes of ww1

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Increased nationalism around the globe
Arms race- consider the colonization of Africa, rubber, coal, iron, etc
Most states created professional officer corp and established Universal Military Service
Competition on who would have the biggest navy- consider the battleship
Secret alliances had become the thing in international politics
Instability in the Balkan Peninsula or the “Powder Keg of Europe”- based on religious and ethnic strife

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central powers vs allies

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Allies- Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia (signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, separate peace deal before war ends) Romania, Serbia, Greece
Central Powers- German, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire

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lusitania

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sunk by german u-boat, schwiegers

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the u20

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captain schwiegers german uboat that sunk the lusitania

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sussex pledge

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German promise to stop sinking merchant ships without warning

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