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Carnegie
Made Fortune in Carnegie Steel Industry
Philanthropist
Helped Develop US railroads
Lincoln
Not Slave Abolitionist
Pocket Veto Wade-Davis Bill (50% plan)
10% plan
Andrew Johnson
VP to Lincoln; Takes office after Lincoln Assassination
Impeached
Tenure of Office Act
14th Amendment
Defines US citizenship
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Helps address many of restrictions found in Black Codes
Freedman Bureau
Initiated by Lincoln
Gov't agency that aided distressed Freedman
Key agency during Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens
Radical Republican
Justice for Freedman
Reconstruction
KKK
Nathan Forrest founded it
Social club by handful of Confederate Soliders
Founded in TN 1866
Mississippi Plan
Devised by Democratic Party
Used to surpress or purchase black vote
Grandfather Clause
States Rights
political powers reserved to states rather than federal gov't
Secession
Opposition to desegregation
Edwin Stanton
Radical Republican
Helped get Johnson Impeached
Secretary of War
Tenure of Office Act
Denied President power to remove anyone without Senate approval
Unconstitutional
Helped to set up Johnson for impeachment
Ulysses S Grant
Radical Republican
President
Fought against KKK
Tilden
election of 1876
wins popular vote but loses to Hayes
Secretary of War
Liberal Republican
against special interest groups
allow black colleges to be formed
Try to remove Grant in 1872 election
Home Rule
President Hayes
Troop removal from the South
compromise of 1877
Sheridan
Feuded with Johnson
Union General
Worked closely with Ulysses S Grant
Black Hills
Place of origination sacred to Sioux
Agreed to be left to Sioux
Gold found and invaded by prospectors
Ghost Dance
Pan-Native religion
Dance to remove whites (crack earth)
Wear sacred garment during dance (invincible)
Senator Dawes
Wanted to modify reservation system
Allotment
Dawes Act
Standing Bear
Denied to leave reservation to get sons body
Tibbles writes story makes S.B. celebrity
Body never found/supposed to be found white man
Poll Tax
Grandfather clause
Implemented after 15th Amendment
disenfranchising blacks and Indians
Railroads
Creates managerial middle class
1st transcontinental railroad 1869
logistics led to white collar jobs
Secession
As Southern States seceded Union they formed Confederacy
Happened during civil war and later brought back to Union during Reconstruction
11 States seceded
Wade-Davis Bill
aka %50 plan
requires half of said population to swear allegiance to Union
Lincoln Pocket vetos the Bill
13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery
Reconstruction Amendment
1865
Reconstruction
period after civil war
focused on rebuilding economy and social structures
commenced with Emancipation Proclamation
Charles Sumner
Wanted equal rights to Freedman
Worked closely with Lincoln
Leader of antislavery forces in MA
Black Codes
Used to limit civil liberties of newly-freed slaves
Reflected unwillingness of whites to see blacks as equal
Used to secure a steady supply of cheap labor
Civil Rights Act of 1866
All born in US are citizens
KKK tries to undermine it
Vetoed by Johnson
Pocket Veto
Lincoln did this Wade-Davis Bill
Allows President to indirectly Veto a Bill
Basically the act of ignoring it until it expires
Military Reconstruction Act
Bill reduced secessionist states into conquered territories
dispatched troops to protect former slave
marital law
Impeachment
Johnson
Formal process where official accused of unlawful activity
Doesn't always result in removal from office
15th Amendment
suffrage to all males in U.S.
a Reconstruction Amendment
1870
Rutherford B. Hayes
wins election of 1876
Beats Tilden
Must remove all troops from the South
Compromise of 1877
Ends Radical Reconstruction
1876 election given to Hayes to remove troops in South
Helps industrialize the South
Sharecropping
ag. system structured so your always in debt
System where landowner provided tools housing seed for large portion of crop
Land divided up per black family
Little Bighorn
Custer Killed
US Army defeated
Led by war heros such as Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
Believes in Ghost Dance
taken into custody and shot while in shackles "trying" to "escape"
causes 300 people to leave reservation who are later murdered by machine guns in a trench
Wounded Knee
where massacre occurs ending indian resistance
~300 people (woman and children mostly) murdered
Ghost dance myth debunked, won't save you from bullets while wearing sacred garments
Allotment
Proposed by Henry Dawes
Where reservation is placed for Indians
Used to abolish Indians remaining culture
Indians Rights Association
Group dedicated to well being of Native Americans and their culture
Founded in PA
neglected cultural Patterns of Indians (ended up being counter-productive)
Agri-Business
Business involved in food production
Farm debt (credit if bad crops due to bad seasons etc)
Involved in production, processing, marketing, distributing
Rockefeller
Oil Tycoon
Founded Standard Oil Company
Owned biggest shipper of oil and and kerosene in the Country
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Exam 1 History 151
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History 151 Exam 1
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