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HIST 151 Midterm 1
Sophomore Year History Reconstruction-New Deal
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History
Undergraduate 2
10/15/2013

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Sharecropping and Crop Lien Systems
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Sharecropping-collection of people working on land and paid percentage of crops
Crop Lien-taking out loan against next years crop
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13th Amendment
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Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except for punishment for a crime
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Vetoed twice by Johnson, passed in 1866, allowed that people born in US are allowed to be citizens
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14th Amendment
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All people born in US were citizens and were to be given full and equal protection of law
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15th Amendment
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Allowed blacks to vote, ratified in 1870
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Election of 1876 and Bargain of 1877
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Election too close, Republican (Rutherford B Hayes) takes presidency and Democrats take control of South
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History
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Organized, integrated way of thinking about the past
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Historical Practice
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Historians synthesize, analyze and interpret
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Primary Source
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A document or physical object that was created during time of study
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Secondary Source
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A source that interprets and analyzes primary sources
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Narrative Types
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Progressive- begins bad, progresses to good
Declensionist-starts good, declines to bad
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Railroads
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Faster means of travel across country, redefined meaning of time, led to creation of time zones. America had more RR track in 1900 than anywhere else in world
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Vertical Integration
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Control of every aspect in production
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Robber Barons/Captains of Industry
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Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, John D Rockefeller-monopolies on products, around 200 families controlling countries wealth
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Credit Mobilier Scandal, 1872
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Millions of dollars in overcharges for building the Union Pacific Railroad were exposed, members of President Grants admin. were involved
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Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
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Halted Chinese immigration to US
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Knights of Labor
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Founded in 1869, fought for better wages, safety, child labor laws. Recruited everybody except Asians
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RR Strike of 1877
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Wages were cut in BO RR in VA, strike spreads through 10 states, National Guard called in, over 100 deaths
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Haymarket Affair
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1866 Parade, was peaceful congregation of up to 1 million people, 3 people shot, 6 officers killed by bomb, 8 people were then arrested for bomb
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Pullman Strike
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1893, wages cut, railyards were destroyed, 27 states affected, Eugene Debs who led strike is jailed
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Social Darwinism
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Application of "natural selection" to justify class distinctions and poverty
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Social Gospel
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Advocates application of Christian principles to social probs of industrialization
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Prescriptive Primary Source
Definition
Tells you what people thought should happen
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Descriptive Primary Source
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Tells you what people thought did happen
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Frederick Jackson Turner and Frontier Thesis
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A speech given at the Colombian Exposition in Chicago explaining how the American Frontier of free land has led to American democracy
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Collapse of Cattle Industry, Great Die up of 1886-87
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Harsh winters and drought led to Great Die Up that killed 90% of cows on open range
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Barbed Wire
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Created in 1874, helped to contain cattle, also contributed to Great Die Up when cattle could not find way around fence
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Dawes Act, 1887
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Allowed president to survey Indian land and divide it up between individual Indians
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Populism
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Emma Goldman
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Splendid Little War
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Phillipine War
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Plessy vs Ferguson
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Moral Reform
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Settlement Houses
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Temperance
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Women Trade Union League
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Progressive Era Ideals
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Newlands Reclamation Act, 1902
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16th Amendment
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17th Amendment
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18th Amendment
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19th Amendment
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Pancho Villa
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Mechanized Warfare, Trench Warfare
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Wilson's 14 Points
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League of Nations
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Great Influenza Epidemic
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Scopes Trial
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WEB Dubois
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Red Summer Race Riots, 1919
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Marcus Garvey
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Harlem Renaissance
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Black Tuesday, Oct 29th, 1929
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Dust Bowl
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Okies
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Hobo Camp
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Mexican Repatriation
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Fundamentalists
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Hayes Code, 1930
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21st Amendment, 1933
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Bonus Army March of 1932
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Election of 1932
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New Deal
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2nd New Deal
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Rural Electrification
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NAvajo Livestock Reduction Act
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