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Carpetbaggers

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Northerner who moved to the south after the civil war

Carry bag of carpet like material

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Reconstruction

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Period of rebuilding which followed civil war when the defeated confederate states were readmitted to the union
Abraham Lincolns plan
Andrew Johnson took over plan was different

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Impeachment

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The process of accusing a public official of wrongdoing

Andrew Johnson possibly but doesn’t happen bc he wants to punish south

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Sharecroppers

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System where landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise

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Bimetallism

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The use of both gold and silver as a basis for national monetary system
Instead of paper money

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Bonanza farm

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Enormous farm where a single crop is grown

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Soddy

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Home built of blocks of turf

Dirt

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Populism

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Demanding ppl have a greater voice in gov. & seeking to advance interests of farmers and laborers
Movement for ppl that needed political help (railroad workers, African Americans
William McKinely tried to deny populism

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Strikes

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Work stoppage intended to force an employer to respond to demands

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Interstate commerce act

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Federal government right to supervise railroad activities and created 5-member interstate commission to do so
Regulate railroads because of the high taxing the consumers

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Sherman antitrust act

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Law intended to prevent creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade

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Vertical integration vs horizontal

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V-company’s taking over its suppliers and distributors and transportation systems to gain total control over quality & Cost of its product (buying out suppliers)
H-merging of companies to make similar products

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Americanization movement

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Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture

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Settlement house

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Community center providing assistance to residents-particularly immigrants-in a slum neighborhood

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Graft

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Illegal use of political influence for personal gain

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Patronage

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Officeholders power to appoint people-usually those who have helped them get elected-to positions in gov.
Giving a friend a job even though they are not well suited for it

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Pendleton civil service act

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Prevented patronage

Had to take tests to be part of a job

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Grandfather clause

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Limit African American voters

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Jim Crow laws

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Laws enacted by southern states and local govs to separate white and black ppl in public and private facilities
Separate races

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Plessy vs ferguson

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Case where Supreme Court ruled that segregation of races in public accommodations was legal, separate but equal

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Columbian exchange

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Transfer beginning with Columbus’s first voyage-of plants,animals,and disease between Western Hemisphere and eastern

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Articles of confederation

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Document that outlined the form of government for the new United States
Constitution

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Monroe doctrine

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Policy to US opposition to any European interference in affairs of the Western Hemisphere

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Impressment

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Forcible seizure of men for military service

Kidnapping Americans

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Manifest destiny

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Belief that US would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory

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Secession

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Formal withdrawal of a state from the union

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Popular sovereignty

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System where residents vote to decide on an issue

Ppl choose & make own laws

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Assimilation

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Minority groups adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture
Forcing native Americans to ex cut hair

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Social Darwinism

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Philosophy that only the fittest will survive

Good food good service =successful

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Dred Scott

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Slave whose owner took him from a slave state ➡️ free state
Free territory=free man
S. Court ruled against

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13th amendment

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Abolished slavery

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14th amendment

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Prevented states from denying right and privileges to US citizens
Citizenship

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15th amendment

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No one can be kept from voting bc of race, color, etc.

Right to vote only men

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Massacre at wounded knee

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Unclear shot was fired
US soldiers demand native Americans give up weapons.
US soldiers kill 300 mostly unarmed native Americans including children
Wake up call for US GOV

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George Pullman

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(Helped cities branch out)
Built factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on Illinois prairie
Created a cult (town) around building railroad cars

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Andrew Carnegie

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Entered steel business by buying a stock
Manufactured more than all factories in Britain
Make better products more cheaply
Very successful

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Leisure activities

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Bicycling tennis baseball amusement parks

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Skyscrapers

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Took up less space
Limited and expensive space was used wisely
Had a lot of steel

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Scabs

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Strike breakers

Replacement workers

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Triangle shirtwaist factory

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All exit doors had locked except one because of the fear of theft.
A fire broke out and many women died
Lead to union and labor laws

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Monopolies

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Complete control over an industry’s production, wages, and prices by ex buying out all it’s competitors
Total Control over business

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Robber barons

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When in control of the market he hiked prices far above original levels

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Trusts

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Not legal mergers, ran separate companies ➡️ one large corporation = dividends on profits earned by the trust (large corporation)
Used to gain control
Join together to create monopoly

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Row house

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A single family dwelling that shared side walls with other similar houses

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Collective bargaining

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Negotiation between representative of labor and management

To reach written agreements on wages, hours, & working conditions

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Time zones

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Used for railroad working hours 
Eastern-Cali
Mountain-Colorado,Montana
Central-Oklahoma,Kentucky
Pacific-ohio,Florida
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Tammy hall

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New York city’s powerful democratic political machine BOSS TWEED

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Intolerable acts

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Parliaments response to boston massacre and tea party by passing a series of measures like closing boston harbor and quartering act

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The Alamo

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Mission/fort in Texas where Mexicans massacred the rebellious texans
San Antonio Texas

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Union

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Workers Join together

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George Custer

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Split up forces bc he thought he was unbeatable

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Battle of little big horn

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Sitting bull,crazy horse, and Custer

Clusters men split up and ended up dead

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Thomas Paine

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Wrote common sense

Wanted independence

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James Madison

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4th president
Bicameral legislature-2 house-virginia plan
Wrote constitution

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Thomas Jefferson

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3rd president

Declaration of Independence life liberty and pursuit of happiness unalienable rights - never taken away

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Homestead act

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160 acres offering of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household
Attraction of the west

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Enforcement acts

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Passed to try to stop power of organizations like the KKK
Say belief what they want but no violence
Stop power of violent groups

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Railroads

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Lead to openings off the west

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