Midterm Flashcards
Presidential Reconstruction: May-Dec. 1865
⦁ Andrew Johnson
⦁ 13th amendment: Feb. 1865/Dec. 1865
Abolishes slavery
⦁ Black Codes (State laws)
Congressional Reconstruction: Dec. 1865-1877
⦁ Freedmen’s Bureau: 1865-72
⦁ Reconstruction Act of 1867
⦁ 14th amendment: June 1866/July 1868
Broad definition of citizenship
To recognize and assume one’s responsibility as a citizen in a democratic society by learning to think for oneself, by engaging in public discourse, and by obtaining information through the news media and other appropriate information sources about politics and public policy.
Equal protection and due process clauses
⦁ 15th amendment: Feb 1869/Mar. 1870
Voting rights to all men, regardless of race
Reconstruction Government (1860s-1870s)
⦁ Republican-controlled
⦁ Multi-racial
Redemption Governments (1870s-1960s)
⦁ Democrat-controlled
⦁ White-run
Compromise of 1877
⦁ Rutherford B. Hayes (Rep)
Popular vote: 4,036,000 (48%)
Electoral Vote: 185
⦁ Samuel Tilden (Dem)
Popular vote: 4,284,000 (51%)
Electoral vote: 184
⦁ Overall turnout——82%
Note the high overall voter turnout: 82%. Most presidential elections today get less than 50%. People thought this was an important election.
The West
I. Decimation of India population
a. violent confrontations
Wounded Knee, SD (December 1892)
b. disease
c. destruction of the way of life (buffalo)
d. assimilation
Carlisle Indian School (1879-1918)
II. Promotion of settlement
Pacific Railroad Act (1862)
Transcontinental Railroad (1869)
Homestead Act (1862)
Movie: “In the White Man’s Image”
Carlisle Indian School
Richard Pratt
Populists called for
Economic:
⦁ Increased money in circulation
⦁ Graduated natural income tax
⦁ Reduced state and local taxes
⦁ Govt ownership of railroads, telegraph, & telephone
⦁ Eight-hour workday
Populists called for
political:
⦁ Single terms for president and vice president
⦁ Popular election of U.S senators
⦁ Adaptation of the initiative and referendum
⦁ Secret Ballot
Peoples Party (or Populist Part) 1892-1896)
James B. Weaver
1892-22 electoral votes (5%)
1,041,000 Popular Votes (9%)
Accomplishments of the Progressives:
⦁ Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
⦁ Meat Inspection Act (1906)
⦁ Conversation- 230 million across of forest land
⦁ Dept. Of Commerce and Dept. Of Labor in 1903
⦁ Federal Reserve Act 1913
⦁ 16th Amendment (Progressive Income Tax) 1913
⦁ 17th Amendment (Direct election of Senators) 1913
⦁ 18th Amendment (Prohibition) 1919
⦁ 19th Amendment (Woman’s Suffrage) 1920
Generally, urban and middle classes called for
(1)More economic equality
(2) more control over government
(3) minimize the abuses of industrialization and urbanization
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle (1906)
U.S Imperialism
Manifest Destiny
Mindset for imperialism(American superiority)
Social Darwinism - survival
Race Thinking
Male Ethos
Christianity and Missionaries
The “Civilizing” Impulse
Annexation of Hawaii
Stanford Dole
American Annexation Club
The overthrow of Queen Lili’uokalani (Jan. 1983)
Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino war
Sinking of the Maine (Feb. 15, 1898)
Paris Peace Treaty( Dec.1898)
Platt Amendment (1901; repealed 1934)
