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Wade-Davis Bill
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Who: congress

What: congressional plan to bring the south back to the union

When: 1864

Where: Washington, D.C.

Why: congress wanted to lead & punish the south

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Presidential Reconstruction 
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Who: Lincoln & Andrew Johnson

What: 10% plan

When: 1865-1868

Where: Washington, D.C

Why: it was a plan to peacefully reunite the country

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Freedman's Bureau
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Who: Government agency

What: help former slaves learn

When: 1865

Where: Washington, D.C.

Why: intended to provide assistance to Freedman

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Sharecropping 
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Who: landowners/ former slaves

What: plantation owners rent land to blacks & shared salary

When: 1865-1965

Where: south

Why: reinstitutionized slavery legally

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13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments 
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Who: congress

What: constitutional protection for blacks

When: 1864, 1867, 1870

Where: Washington, D.C.

Why: equal rights to all males

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Jim Crow
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Who: actor

What: white actor who painted his face black and portrayed blacks as silly

When:1867/ late 1860s

Where: north & south

Why: went around portraying blacks in a bad way

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KKK
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Who: white supremacists

What: scare & punish blacks

When: 1865-present

Where: south

Why: they were able to scare black voters, which led to the loss of political power

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PBS Pinchback
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Who: a black politician

What: Lt. Governor in Louisiana

When:1870s

Where:Louisiana

Why: 1st black governor of Louisiana

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1st Presidential Impeachment
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Who: congress

What: charges against Andrew Johnson

When: 1868

Where: Washington, D.C.

Why: congress was to powerful
Congress has no right to impeach a president over political debates

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Mississippi Plan
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Who: Mississippi Legislature/Democrats

What: plans of attack on blacks, carpetbaggers, scallywags

When:1875

Where: Mississippi

Why: organised threats of violence against republicans to prevent them from voting

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Compromise of 1877
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Who: congress
(Republicans & Democrats)

What: agreement for electoral college votes

When: 1877

Where: Washington, D.C.

Why: marked end of reconstruction

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Lakota Sioux
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Who: native americans who resisted the US army

What: defeated Custer at battle of little big horn

When:1860s

Where: plains

Why: marked beginning of and for native americans in the plains

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George Armstrong Custer 
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Who: youngest US general

What: won several victories on the plains

When: 1861- 1876

Where: civil war; south; plains

Why: most successful calvary officer in the Union during the civil war

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Battle of Little Big Horn
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Who: native americans & US army

What: major victory for native americans

When:1876

Where: Montana (present day)

Why: victory for native americans led by Sitting Bull marked beginning of end for native americans in the plains

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Geronimo 
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Who: native americans chief

What: led Apaches against US army

When: 1880s

Where: Plains

Why: led last organised revolt against US army in 1886

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Wounded Knee
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Who: native americans/ US army

What: massacre of 250 native americans

When: 1890

Where: South Dakota

Why: Represent end of the Plains Indian Wars

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Dawes Severalty Act 
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Who: congress

What: assimilation on native americans if they wanted to live outside of the reservations

When: 1887

Where: Washington, D.C.

Why: allowed native americans to leave reservations but they had to change their names, live in a house, and become more christian

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The Significance of the Frontier in   American History
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Who: Franklin Jackson Turner

What: document about how the US could not expand anymore

When: 1893

Where: Chicago World’s Fair

Why: led movement to expand continental US (imperialism) & led to annexation of territories

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The Robber Barons
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Who: entrepreneurs

What: men who made a fortune on business

When: late 1800s/ early 1920s

Where: mostly north

Why: responsible for building america

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Nancy Greene 
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Who: business women

What: famous pancake recipe

When: 1893

Where: Chicago’s world fair

Why: intro pancake recipe & picture appears to be her (Jamaima)

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Knights of Labor 
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Who: labor union organization

What: union that represented all workers except children

When: 1880s

Where: mostly north

Why: improve working conditions

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"How the Other Half Lives"
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Who: Jocob Riits

What: article/book about the bad conditions in the tenements

When:1890

Where: New York

Why:to bring problems of the tenements to light

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Jane Addams/ Hull House 
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Who: reformer

What: 1st settlement house

When: 1889

Where:Chicago

Why: taught “Americanization”/launching pad for many women reformers

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Second Mississippi Plan
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Who: democrats/state legislature

What: plan to prevent blacks from voting (poll tax, literacy test, Grandfather clause)

When: 1890

Where: Mississippi

Why: to take political power from blacks in the state

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Henry Grady
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Who: journalist

What: plan to bring industrialization/capital to the south

When:1893

Where: south(Atlanta)

Why: sought to promote northern investment in the south

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Booker T. Washington 
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Who: black educator

What: Atlanta compromise

When: 1895

Where: Alabama

Why: promoted idea of blacks accepting inferior status to whites while getting industrial education

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W.E.B. Dubois
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Who: black educator

What: opposed Booker T. Washington

When:1895

Where: Georgia

Why: demanded equality to all blacks immediately

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Plessy v. Fergusson 
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Who: Plessy & Luisiana Railroad Company

What: supreme court landmark case

When: 1896

Where: Washington, D.C.

Why: established “separate, but equal”

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Pendleton Act 
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Who: mugwumps/congress/Arthur

What: law regulating Civil Service Jobs

When: 1883

Where: Washington, D.C.

Why: established merit system in government

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Grover Cleveland 
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Who: president

What: only democratic president in the Gilded Age

When: 1885-1889, 1898-1897

Where: Washington, D.C.

Why: only president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms & signed the Interstate Commerce Act

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Interstate Commerce Act/ICC
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Who: congress/Cleveland

What: 1st law passed to regulate business

When: 1887

Where: Washington, D.C.

Why: 1st federal regulatory body specially corrupt railroad industry

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The Influence of Sea Power 
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Who: Alfred T. Mahan

What: book about how American Navy should be updated

When: 1890

Where: New York

Why: successful in convincing congress to upgrade Navy

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Populist Party 
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Who: farmers

What: movement to hell struggling farmers

When: 1892

Where: agricultural US (west,north,south & blacks)

Why: 1st presidential election to have a major 3rd political party

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Spanish American War
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Who: Spain & America

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When: 1898

Where: Spain, Philippines, & Cuba

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Open Door/Boxer Rebellion
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Who: president mckinley

What: attempts to end foreign influence to china

When: 1899-1900

Where: china

Why: attempt to promote Chinese autonomy

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Victoria Woodhull
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Who: activist/reformer

What: presidential election

When: 1872

Where: U.S.A

Why: 1st female to run for president ( equal rights party)

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Progressivism
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Who: white middle class america

What: movement on purpose and fuction of government

When: 1901-1920

Where: mostly northern and western US

Why: able to help pass laws to impress politicians and society in US

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NWA/NAWSA
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Who: Susan B anthony/ catt/ shaw

What: suffrage movement

When: 1850s- 1920

Where: mostly NY and Washington

Why: able to pressure congress to pass the 19 th amendment

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Margaret Sanger 
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Who: activist

What: founded the National Birth Control League

When:1915

Where: NY

Why: founded legal status on discussing birth control

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Iba B. Welles
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Who: journalist/activist

What: editor of free speech and headlight

When:1890’s

Where: Tennessee, new york

Why: founded the negro fellowship league and one of the founders of NAACP(1910)

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Progressive Amendments
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Who: 16,17,18,19 amendments

What: U.S. Constitutional amendments

When: 1913,1913,1919,1920

Where: Washington

Why: 16-income tax 17- direct elections of senators 18- prohibition 19- woman suffrage

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The Jungle 
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Who: Upton Sinclair

What: book about how bad immigrant workers’ lives were

When: 1906

Where: Chicago

Why: influenced creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act AND Meat Inspection Act

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Robert LaFollette
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Who: politician

What: governor of Wisconsin

When: 1991-1906

Where: Wisconsin

Why: proposed the “Wisconsin idea” to make state politics less corrupt and more transparent

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Oregon System 
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Who: Oregon’s legislature

What: initiative, referendum, recall

When: 1902

Where: Oregon

Why: gave back more power to state voters

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Teddy Roosevelt 
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Who: president

What: trust buster

When: 1901-1909

Where: Washington

Why: view political office as duty to the nation

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Election of 1912
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Who: w. Wilson(D) Taft(R) Roosevelt(progressive)

What: presidential election

When: 1912

Where: USA

Why: Roosevelt ran as a 3rd party and by taking votes away from helped wilson win election

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Jeannette Rankin 
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Who: activist/reformer

What: fought for women’s suffrage out west before becoming a politician

When: 1916

Where: Washington

Why: 1st woman elected to the US House of Representative

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