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reconstruction and the gilded age Flashcards

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Why did reconstruction end?

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  • military removed from the south
  • southern compromise
  • corruption and scandals
  • Grant damaged by economic depression
  • the republicans were divided (grant)
  • problems with the Indians (black hills 1876)
  • 1872 amnesty act
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how many slaves were freed in 1860?

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4 million

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how many people were killed in the civil war?

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700,000

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Which case stated separate but equal was ok?

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Plessy vs Ferguson

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Where did blacks have the voting majority?

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South Carolina and Missippi

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How many black people were in the state government?

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2 senates and 20 state representatives

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What were examples of corruption with grant?

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  • whiskey ring
  • Belknap scandal 1867
  • Gold scandal 1869
  • 1873 salary grab
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What was the 1877 Southern compromise?

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  • withdraws military from the south
  • reduces republican power in the south
  • stopped conflict between north and south
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What was the amnesty act of 1872?

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grant allowed some ex confederates to return to politics after being disqualified by previous laws

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What was the tweed ring?

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Tweed and his people looted at lead 45 million dollars from New York (poisoned local politics)

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What was the number of immigrants in 1890?

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10 million

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Why was there an increase in population?

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transport links and industrialisation

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Where did blacks have the voting majority?

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South Carolina and Mississippi

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How many people did the silroad employ by 1900?

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1 million

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How much money was in the New York stock exchange?

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6 billion

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What was Carnegie’s fortune in 1890?

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$480 million

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Who was the worlds first billionaire?

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Rockefeller

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18
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Where did black farmers move for better opportunities?

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Kansas

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What was the spoils system?

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where people got political jobs based on their party loyalty (not on merit)

20
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What did Hayes do?

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  • began reforming spoils system
  • appointed best known advocates for reform
  • congress fought his decisions
  • he forbade corruption, and sack people such as the stats who fought him
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What did Arthur do?

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  • continued civil service reform
  • ended spoils system
  • signed first federal immigration law
  • signed Chinese exclusion act
  • lowered tariff rates (signed 1883 tariff act)
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What did Cleveland do?

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muddy election, opponent was hated

  • supported the mugwumps
  • continued civil service reform
  • still the spoils system but he made it better
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What was the 1883 Pendleton civil service act?

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  • said federal jobs are awarded on merit (competitive exams)

- Federal jobs became more specialised and skilful

24
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What was the 1877 railroad strike?

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  • fought wage cuts

- got violent as Hayes sent troops to end the strike

25
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What was the 1882 Chinese exclusion act?

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banned Chinese people from America and citizenship for 20 years

26
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How many people did the railroad employ by 1900?

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1 million

27
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what was the 1867 Granger movement?

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united farmers against the hostilities of the railroad companies

28
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what was the population in 1860 and 1880?

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31.5 and 50 million

29
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Who was Carnegie?

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-started as a poor immigrant
- got into railroads and used steel instead of iron
- monopolised steel prodycton
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30
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Who was Rockefeller?

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  • appealed by oil industry
  • bought oil refineries
  • expanded into iron, copper, coal
  • worlds first billionaire
31
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Who was Vanderbilt?

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  • invested in railroad boom
  • richest man in America
  • expert with steam engines
  • brutal handling of strikes
  • conflict with rail barons
32
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How much rail track was laid by 1900?

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over 200,000

33
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What caused the economic depression?

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  • economic reversal in Europe

- poor US banking systems

34
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Who was Carnegie?

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  • started as a poor immigrant
  • got into railroads and used steel instead of iron
  • monopolised steel production
35
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What are philanthropists?

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wanted to help the less fortunate (universities, hospitals and libraries)

36
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What was steel used for in the west?

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  • barbed wire
  • steel ploughs (sod busters)
  • steel rails
  • steel barrels on repeating rifles
37
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What was bad about agriculture in the west?

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  • climate was harsh and prone to natural disasters
  • unproductive land
  • agriculture rices fell
  • farmers increasingly relied on loans
  • small farms were inefficient and the level of investment was low
38
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Why did agriculture develop?

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  • immigration
  • railroads
  • steel
  • government
  • population growth
  • technology
  • natural resources
  • growing cities = bigger market
39
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when was Harrison president?

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1889 - 1893

40
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what did Harrison do?

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  • first time republicans controlled senate and congress in decades - pushed through republican agenda
  • Mckinley tariff act raised tariffs
  • Sherman anti trust and sliver purchase acts (unrepublican, trying to regain support after pork barrel politics)
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how was Harrison and his government seen as corrupt?

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  • billion dollar congress where people got gov positions based on their donations
  • $1 billion spent on pork barrel politics like harbours and transport (huge profit)
  • lost house and senate and Cleveland returned in 1892
42
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what were the stalwarts?

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faction of the republicans that believed in favour of traditional republicanism
like political machines and the spoils system
(originally led by grant)

43
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what were the half breeds?

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more liberal republicans that were in favour of things like civil service reforms
(led by lames Blaine)

44
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how were the republicans divided?

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  • traditional stalwarts (led by grant) vs liberal half breeds (led by Blaine)
  • divided over issues like civil service reforms
  • mugwumps who supported honest democrat Cleveland
45
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who were the half breeds?

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more liberal republicans (originally led by Blaine against Grant)
- in favour of things like civil service reforms

  • gilded age presidents like Hayes, Arthur and Garfield

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