History Flashcards
Andrew Johnson
First president impeached,and agreed with Lincoln that the states never really left the union
Indian territory
The largest unsettled farmland in Oklahoma
American federation of labor goals
Pushed for closed shops a 8 hour work day and recognition of bargaining
Homestead act
Millions of acres were given away free in the west to anyone that would claim land and live there for five years
Problems for workers during the industrialization
Low wages long hours and difficult working conditions
Lincolns 10% plan
When10% of the voting population took an oath of loyalty established government it would be recognized was The president at the end of the Civil War in the beginning of the reconstruction
Goals of Indian reservation
Design to civilize and Christian the Indians
Thomas Edison
Invented/improved the phonograph motion picture electric generator dictaphone light bulb battery and he also supplied electric power to New York City wizard of Menlo Park
Ulysses s. Grant
After Andrew Johnson was impeached he became president over an area of unpresidential growth and corruption
Union Pacific RR
Began laying track for the transcontinental railroad west ward of Omaha Nebraska
Abraham Lincoln
16th president of the U.S he was in office for the first part of the civil war reconstruction, he did not consult congress regarding reconstruction, he also passed the Pacific railway act
13th amendment
Raitified in December 1865 outlawed slavery
Central Pacific RR
Began laying track for the transcontinental railroad east ward out of Sacramento Nebraska
Freedmans bureau
Former abolitionists (carpetbaggers) risked their lives to help southern freedmen
14 th amendment
Granted whoever was born in the U.S citizenship
Paha sapa
Black hills
15 th amendment
Allowed slaves to vote