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Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

1865-1877, after the Civil War, cotton was a big money maker, it drove first industrial revolution/westward expansion, the more cotton led to need for more slaves

Question 2

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 2

During reconstruction (March1865), set up to help slaves conform to society

Question 3

Lincoln and Johnson realtionship

Answer 3

Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865–> couldn’t carry out his reconstruction plan, Johnson then took over–> anti-wealthy (helped slaves unintentionally)

Question 4

Lincolns 10% plan

Answer 4

1863, Confederate leaders not allowed on ballet–> led to all confederate states returning to the Union one by one

Question 5

Black codes

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(1865-1866) Laws that were created to get black people in trouble for “crimes” so that they’d be eligible for punishment (slavery–> back to working as a punishment)
-Contained pig laws (violations against African Americans with anything to do with livestock), vacancy laws, and anti-miscegenation laws (different races couldn’t marry)
-Eventually became the Jim Crow laws

Question 6

Sharecropping/ convict lease

Answer 6

Former slaves forced to work because they had debt that could never be paid off because the landlords controlled how much they got paid

Question 7

The 14th amendment

Answer 7

1868–> All people born on any US territory are considered US citizens

Question 8

Slaughter house cases

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1873–> government trying to regulate disease because of these slaughter houses–> houses won in court which allowed for a monopoly, and more disease

Question 9

Reconstruction Act of 1867 V Andrew Johnson

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Reconstruction Act required confederate states to not be discriminative in order to get back into the Union. But Johnson was more lenient and wanted to just let them back in. Congress won, and passed 4 reconstruction acts over Johnsons veto’s.

Question 10

15th amendment

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1870, last reconstruction amendment, and it allowed all men to vote regardless of race

Question 11

KKK

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First group to form in Tennessee in 1865, Christan organization with a patriotic cause, consisted of former soldiers that lost in the Civil War, tried to limit anyone from voting Republican by murdering them

Question 12

Election of 1868

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Johnson loses the election to Ulysess S Grant (union solider) –> try to get rid of the KKK but it is overlooked by economic recession

Question 13

Election of 1876

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Hayes vs Tilden, four states sent in fake ballots, recounted in 1877–> Hayes was declared the winner

Question 14

Comprimise of 1877

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End of reconstruction, Republicans win, Democrats loose but get to reconstruct the south without northern interference–> African Americans in the south were left unprotected

Question 15

White supremacy in the south

Answer 15

Disfranchisement (violence, literacy test, grandfather clause, purges (removing people’s names), poll tax), segregation laws (Separate but equal doctrine–> everyone has to be separate but will be equal)

Question 16

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 16

1896
challenged law; said 14th amendment did not prohibit segregation
legalized segregation in the south until 1960s

Question 17

Lynching

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-popular in southern states, also happening in northern states
-KKK resurges in 1915 were responsible for many lynchings
-1893 people were coming to watch them happen

Question 18

Frederick Douglas

Answer 18

-slave until 30
-gained freedom by his friends buying him
-wrote 3 autobiographies
-taught himself how to read and write, how he realized he was a slave
-died in 1895

Question 19

Booker T. Washington

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-born a slave in 1856, freed at age of 9
-idea was that black men need to just “go with it”
- get good at something and then the white people need you
-First President of Tuskegee Institute (university)

Question 20

WEB Debois

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-No experience with slavery
-privileged
-believed everyone should help free family/friends
-fought for children education
-one of the founders of the NAACP

Question 21

Cherokee nation vs Georgia 1831

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Native Americans were outcasted, and needed federal government approval to be a dependent nation

Question 22

The Indian Appropriations Act of 1871

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Treaty says government will no longer make treaties with Native Americans

Question 23

Gold rush

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People rushed to the Dakotas to find gold–> bad because this was Native lands and givernment was supposed to protect them

Question 24

Battle of Little Big Horn (1876)

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Due to Gold Rush (Natives were asked to move out of Dakotas–> Natives said they could later in the Spring–> person carrying the letter buried it so the US thought that the Natives were incompliant–>U.S soldiers vs the Indians–> all of US people died–> Native Americans won but their leaders were killed–> still live there to this day

Question 25

Dawes Severalty Act 1887-1924

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Made for Native Americans to assimilate into white culture, 160 acre-->farm for 25 years--> then granted US citizenship

Question 26

Massacre at Wounded Knee 1890

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US replied to concerns about settling in the Dakotas due to Native American culture (ghost dance) --> started a war-->end of Indian resistance

Question 27

The Bureau of Indian affairs (1824)

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$100,000 a year for Indian boarding schools--> Indian children required to attend "Kill the Indian save the man" essentially get the "Indian" out of them Lots of children died to diseases and poor diet--> prison like living, owned by churches

Question 28

Indian child welfare act (1978)

Answer 28

Congress intervening and saying that we can't have these boarding schools, and taking Indian children away from their families

Question 29

Boomtowns

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Towns that popped up around the railroads, time zones were created (The standard time act of 1918--> when time zones became official)

Question 30

Homestead Act of 1862

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-Gave away land to people who had been farming for 5 years (in the west--> why people wanted to move west)

Question 31

Women's suffrage

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1848 in New York push for women's suffrage, 1869--> Wyoming first state, east coast women didn't get the right to vote until 1920

Question 31

Why people wanted to move west

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Gold rush, railroad, free land, religious ideology (1840-1860s)

Question 32

Chinese immigration

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Mostly single men living alone, called birds of passage, China towns were created

Question 33

Ordinances (1870-1876)

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Multiple ordinances to charge Chinese people for things that they'd do daily

Question 34

Japanese immigration (1870)

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US friends with Japanese because of international relations

Question 35

Chinese exclusion act of 1862

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Preventing Chinese laborers and their wives from immigrating for 10 years -Keep out poor Chinese, and prevented them from gaining citizenship -Originally sent through congress every 10 years, but made permanent in 1902

Question 36

The Geary Act of 1892

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Required all Chinese to carry their certificate of residence everywhere

Question 37

Japanese Gentlemens agreement

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agreement between US and Japan to limit amount of their people coming to US because we don't want Chinese

Question 38

Immigration act of 1970

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Established literacy test

Question 39

Angel island--> west coast

Answer 39

West coast immigration station, opened in 1910, closed in 1940 after it burned down, did same tests as Ellis Island (how to regulate how many Asians were coming through)

Question 40

Immigration in the late 19th century

Answer 40

More diverse, more from southeastern Europe

Question 41

Immigration stations on the east coast

Answer 41

Castle garden--> 1855-1890, original center, moved to be closer to the water US barge office--> 1890, immigration center until 1891 when Ellis Island was established Ellis Island--> 1892-1897, burnt down, so moved back to US barge office for 3 years (1900's) New Ellis Island-->1900-1954, a lot bigger than original one (3rd class were required to go to Ellis Island)