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Midterm 1 multiple choice Flashcards

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Slavery’s extention to territories

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originally through the missouri compromise there was a balance of free and slave states, but unorganized terrories left problems

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Fugitive slave act

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  • part of the compromise of 1850, was the act that required slaved who fled to free states be returned to the south
  • slave catchers were moved to free states, northern unrest
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Stephen douglas

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Northern democrate nomonie for the election of 1860

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Uncle toms cabin

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  • written by harriet beecher stowe, was one of the first books truley outling the horros of being a slave, was sold in mass over the US, created outrage with many northerners, as well as bringing awareness
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Caning of charles sumner

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  • In 1856, pro-slavery democrate preston brooks attacked charles summer (abolisonist democrate) beating him with a cane
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Panic of 1857

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  • Financial panic over declining economy
  • Insurance and trust companys being embezzeled
  • “run on the bank”
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Dres Scott decision

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  • stated that slaves who lived in free states did not give freedom
  • Supreme court states that African Americans can not become citizens
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Lincoln-Douglas debates

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  • Debates between Lincoln and democrat douglas
  • Generated huge publicity for lincoln, putting him in good standing
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John Browns raid

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  • Effort by john brown to free and arm slaves
  • Failure but helped accelerate crisis, making the south fear that more would do the same
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Fort Sumter

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  • Act of the union trying to simply give more supplies to the fort, having ships fired at
  • Confederates were asked to stop, out of human dignity
  • Confederate fire on fort sumpter
  • War start!
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Southern Secession

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  • Seven deep south slave states secess
  • slavery was the main cause
  • At the Montgomery convention the seven seceding states created the Confederate Constitution
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Jefferson Davis

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  • Former president of the Confederate states
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Confederate Advantages/Disadvantages

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  • Advantages: Fighing on familiar train, had a propaganda advantage: claiming invasion
  • Disadvantages: lack of liquid resources, shortage of disposable wealth, powerful centrlized government needing to fight the war
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Union Advantages/Disadvantages

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  • Advantages: larger population, greater industrial capacity, greater financial resources
  • Disadvantages: Fighting an offense war in enemy territory
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King Cotton Diplomacy

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  • stratagey used by the confederacy to try and get great britian and france to support them during the war by restricting cotton trade
  • ended up hurting them more
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Battle of Bull Run/Manassas

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  • First battle of the civil war
  • Confederate victory
  • Both side had untrained troops
  • 1k killed
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Robert E. Lee

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  • Confederate general, lead the condereracys most powerful army
  • skilled tactician
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Ulysses S. Grant

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  • Union officer
  • Lead them to victory
  • Lead the vicksburg campaign and gained control of the mississippi river, which got him promotes
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Shiloh

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  • Union defeated the confederates
  • Won by Grant
  • Took place between a curch named shiloh and pittsburg landing (near the tennesse river)
  • One of the bloodiest battles (24k?)
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New Military Technology

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  • Progression in guns
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Antietam

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  • Bloodiest battle in the war
  • 23,000 dead
  • Failed foregin recognition for the south
  • maryland sucession hopes dashed
  • blow to the peace democrates / copperheads
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Civil War Death Toll

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750,000 dead

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54th Massachusetts Regiment

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  • African American infranty regiment that served the union
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Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

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  • Speech given to soldiers
  • Adressed gettysburg and the loss, helped to radify soldiers under lincoln
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New York Draft Riots

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  • anger at the draft and how richer people could pay out of it, turned into a race riot
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Greenbacks

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  • Emergency paper money issued during the war
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Vicksburg and Gettysburg

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  • vicksburg was grants early campaign, was seiged in 1863
    -Gettsburg was the two armys converging, at first the confederates were winning, and then a union victory (one of the bloodiest battles)
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Appomattox Court House

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  • led to Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
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1864 Presidential Election

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  • political devisions”
    Northern democrates nominate douglas
    Southern democrates nominate Breckinridge
    Republical nomination of Lincon
    Union party nominates bell
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Freedman’s Bureau

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  • provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
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Lincoln’s 10 percent plan

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  • allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths
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Civil Rights Bill of 1866

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  • Anyone born within the US are citizens (except native americans)
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Radical Republicans

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  • Wanted complete and perminate eradication of slavery
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13th Amendment

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  • Abolished slavery
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14th Amendment

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  • Not allowing states to make laws that should hurt the privilges of citizens
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15th Amendment

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  • Allowed African American men to vote
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Tenure of Office Act

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  • restricted the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the U.S. Senate
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Radical Reconstruction

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  • Reconstruction act of 1867
  • Military districs
  • Ratification of the 14th amendment
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The Grant Scandals

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  • whiskey ring, evaded taxes
  • grant interfered against investigations
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Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

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  • Carpetbagger are northerners in the south
  • Scalawags are southerners who cooperate with republican governments
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Depression of 1873

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  • Financial crisis
  • American Inflation
  • Speculation Investments (railroads)
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Land Redistribution

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  • Idea that southern land would be taken and redistributes to ex slaves
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Sharecroppers

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  • Where a tenet is allowed by the landowner to use the land as long as the landowner is given crops in return
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Ku Klux Klan

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  • White supremisist
  • Founded in 1865
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Redeemers

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  • Southern wing of the democratic party
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Andrew Carnegie

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  • Empire Builder
  • Steel Industry
  • Use of technology, organization, and talent
  • “Gospel of Wealth”
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John Rockefeller

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  • Empire builder
  • Took over standard oil
  • Horizontal Integration (growing at the same level as industry)
  • Pools, trust and holding companys
  • Resulted in the Sherman Antitrust Act
  • Corrupt
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Jay Gould

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  • Speculator
  • Land speculation, during the civil war as a well as railroad speculation
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J.P. Morgan

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  • Was a Financier
  • Managed stocks and bonds
  • Reorganized bankrupt companies
  • Mergers
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Railroad Industry

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  • Utilized new types of power and materials
  • Fueled other key industries
  • Government support and Private Investment
  • Excessive competition and minimal regulation
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Samuel Gompers

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  • Founded the American Federation of Labor
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Thomas Edison

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  • Created the lighbulb
  • Started a wave of inventions
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Dawes

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  • American banker and polititan
  • 30th vice president of the united states
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Battle of Little Big Horn

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  • Us army forced vs Native American tribes
  • Us forces losts
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Ghost Dance

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  • Ceremony involving native american religion, supposed to bring peace, prosperity, and unity
  • Ending colonial expansion
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Sherman Antitrust Act

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  • Allowed free competition among those who engage in commerce
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Interstate Commerce Commission

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  • regulatory agency created under the commerce act of 1887
  • requlated railroads, ensured fair rates
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American Federation of Labor

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  • Largest union group
  • wanted safe working conditions, equal pay, and saftey
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Haymarket Square Bombing

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  • May day call for action
  • May 3rd - police and workers violent clash
  • May 4th- Haymarketsquare bombing
  • Showed that rallys and unions can bring change
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Gilded Age

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  • Rapid economic growth
  • Demand for skilled workers grew
  • Industrialization demand grew
  • Inbetween the Reconstruction era and the Progessive era
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Alexander Graham Bell

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  • Created the first practical telephone
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Transatlantic Cable/Telephone

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  • Had a huge impact on politics, press, and buisness
  • No more waiting on news or major events
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Brand Names

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  • Created brand loyalty
  • Mass marketing helped improve sales
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Department/Chain Stores

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  • Was the first type of store to have everything all in one place, and to have multiple stores under the same brand in different places
  • Was created to be an experience
  • Hurt “mom and pop” type stores
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Mail Order Catalogs

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  • Allowed people who lived in rural areas to also fall into the wonders of capitalism
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Skyscrapers

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  • Allowed people to capitilze more on smaller plots of land
  • Helped to improve the huge population increase
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Jacob Riis

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  • Journalist
  • Helped the impoverish New Yorkers with writings and photographs
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Tenements

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  • Massive overcrowed housing for workers
  • Located near factories, huge health risk, huge amounts of crime
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New Immigrants

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  • Immigrants from southern and eastern Erope and beyond
  • Adjustments, strains to new life in America
  • Immigrant support groups and associations
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Boss William Tweed

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  • Political bosss of Tammany Hall
  • Extreme corruption in the New York Government
  • Corruption within votes

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