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What was grants campaign slogan?

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Let us have peace!

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Who is the 18th president, 2nd republican president who represented Illinois and had a scandalous administration?

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Grant

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What was Johnson’s last decree as president

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Pardoning all confederates

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Former salves who farmed the former plantations and share the crop and profit with the farmer of the land?

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Sharecroppers

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Northerners that traveled to the south to rebuild and to make unfair profit

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Carpetbaggers

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A former union sympathizer from the south who is trying to rebuild and make a profit

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Scalawag

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Who had the vision of expanding to Alaska?

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William H Seward

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Who sold Alaska? Why did they sell it?

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Russia

Crimean war between Great Britain

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What was the purchase of Alaska called evasive people thought Seward was a fool for wanting Alaska

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Sewards folly

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How much was Alaska bought for?

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7.2 million

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What was Alaska also known as

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Sewards icebox or sucked orange

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What was the massive goldstrike in Alaska called and what was it named for?

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Klondike, River

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What did Johnson pass that said African Americans should not be hindered for voting for anyway reason?

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15th Ammendment

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What did the 15th Ammendment say

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African Americans should not be hindered from voting for any reason

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What mountain with a useful substance was found

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Copper mountain

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What were the acts that gave the military full allowance to make sure that the 14th and 15th amendments are being followed and the KKK is put down

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Force acts

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Only president so far to not hold an office position

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Ulysses S Grant

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Two words that describe grants administration

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Corruption and scandal

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What was grants slogan

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Let us have peace

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Center of some of the greatest scandals of all time

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Tammany Hall

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Someone who has so much power in the city which they usually achieved by trickery, bribery, or cheating

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Political boss

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Who was the political boss in New York

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Boss William Tweed

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What was Tammany hall also called

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Machine

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What important event happened during grants presidency?

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Completion of the Continental Railroad

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What did the railroad bind
Oakland to Omaha, symbolically bound the nations
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Where did the railroads meet?
Promotory Point/Summit Utah
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Which ethnic group built one side of the railroad and were not liked because of their hard work
Chinese
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Huge wooden bridge that connects a tunnel to a piece of land
Trestle
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One of the most explosive liquids given to Chinese to blow up land to build the railroads
Nitroglycerin
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How many Chinese died by nitroglycerin
15,000
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What is the Line that the Chinese built and why was it significant
Overland route and it was the number one carrier of people and mail in the nation
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How many tunnels were built during the railroad process
13
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What plague arose in 1874 and what was it called
Rocky Mountain locusts
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Who journaled about the grasshoppers
Ella Funston
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How long and wide were the grasshopper swarms
100 miles wide, half a mile long, and 100 miles long
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He was Americas 1st anniversary
July 4, 1876
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Who hosted the world fair
Philedelphia
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How long did the worlds fair last? How many exhibits were there
6 months and was meant to illustrate how far Americans have come 30,000
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What is patented in 1876 and by whom
Telephone, Alexander graham bell
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What does the Statue of Liberty mean?
Liberty enlightening the World
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Who created and designed the copper exterior of Lady Liberty
Auguste Bartholdi
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Who designed the skeleton underneath the Eiffel Tower
Gustsv eiffel
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Where did they keep the parts of lady liberty
Bledsow island
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What was the anniversary called?
Centennial exposition
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What was driven into the ground at promontory summit
A golden spike
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Who was the editor of the New York word who raised enough money to build the statue
Joseph Pulitzer
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What were the two purposes of the statue of liberty?
It served as a functional lighthouse | A beacon of Liberty to demonstrate to the rest of the world
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What were some things at the worlds fair
Turkish dancers Polar bears 53 Indian tribes 10 Milan people
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During the world fair, who is a civil war hero in Kansas?
George Armstrong Custer
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Which two Indian tribes made a contract with the USA For moving out of the plains and into reservations
Sioux and Cheyenne
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Who were the two tribes led by
Crazy horse and sitting bull
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What land do the Indians want Americans to stay out of
Black hills in South Dakota
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Why did the USA not stay out of the black hills?
Gold was found there.
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What happened when the tribes find out the Americans trespassed on holy ground
They gather and start a war
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What do the Americans do in order to make a blow
Set up three columns, one is led by Custer
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What did Custer do last minute and what happened?
He heard that the Indians were 15 miles away so he goes but he can't go straight since he has to go around Little Bighorn so he is outnumbered 3:1 and all his men are scalped and killed to prove a statement.
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What happened is response to clusters death?
USA sent in huge army and ended the war
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What is clusters final battle called?
Custers Last Stand
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Who is the lone horse that survives?
Comanche
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Who is the ohio republican president that formed the compromise of 1877 and assured the official end of the era of reconstruction?
Rutherford B Hays
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What is Rutherford Hayes none for?
Waving the bloody shirt, which is bringing up the civil war and he blames everything on the south
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What is the compromise of 1877
It allows Rutherford b Hayes to be president if and only if he removed troops from the south and allowed reconstruction to end
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What was the main "cow town"
Adeline
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What were beefing towns called?
Cow towns
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What percentage of cowboys were black
1/3
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What was the most famous trail routes at
Sedalia
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What was a cattle drive
AftertheCivilWar,ranchersinTexashadhugeherdsofcattle. • Theydidcowdrivesallthewayacrossthecountrytotheeastcoastwherepeopleneededbeef. • Thecattledriveewasalmost1000milestoSedalia,Kansas. • Abeleneandothertownsareoftencalled"CowTowns." • Thecattledrivesbroughtaround2000cowsupthetrail.
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What were problems for cowboys driving cattle?
Sleep desperation | Cow disease
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How many cowboys were black?
1/3
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What type of cattle did they driv
Longhorn
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What was the average cattle drive
2000 beeches each for 200 dollars
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Two main beef packing towns
KC AND CHICAGO
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What were the factors that ended the cattle era
Overgrazing Less urgent need for beef Homesteaders coming west to farm
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What was the conflict called when the farmers and cowboys went head to head
Range wars
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What was the farmers nicknames
Sodbusters
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Who one the range war?
Farmers
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Who invented the invention that stopped the range wars?
Joseph Glidden and Barbed wire
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What was the treaty in which the Americans got Oklahoma and the Indians got money?
There were 7 land rushes and it only took 7 days to settle Oklahoma
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Whichh Indians made the land rush deal
5 civilized tribes
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Who were the people that competed in the land rush
Boomers
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Land rush cheaters
Sooners
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What was the capital of Oklahoma
Guthrie
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Dates of reconstruction
1865-1877
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How were some bison preserved?
Buffalo Bill and other show cowboys had traveling road shows
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What are some reasons for the great bison hunt that almost made them extinct
Over 39 billion and stampeded wagon trails Not tamable or domesticated Extremely hard to confine can jump 6 feet and run 40 miles per hour Beef got profit Bison bone was fertilizer and paint base They are the primary reason that Indians can not be contained becasue bison are their main food source

College History 102 (5 decks)

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