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History 104
History from 1877- till now
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Undergraduate 2
02/25/2012

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Term
Primary source
Definition
Original source, used first, not restated within a second source.
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Secondary source
Definition
source reused, or restated from an original article.
Term
Frameworks for examining History
Definition
1. Sensitivity to how other times and places differ
from our own.
2. Awareness of basic continuities in human affairs
over time.
3. Ability to note and explain signi!cant changes.
4. Sensitivity to multiple causation.
5. Awareness that all written history is a
reconstruction that inadequately re#ects the
past as it really happened.
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Reconstruction
Definition
The period 1865–1877 following the Civil War
Term
Transition to free labor?
Definition
Important to the transition to free labor during the early postwar years was the Bureau of
Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen’s
Bureau. Congress created the Bureau in March 1865 to help freed slaves achieve
payment for their work, get an education, and gain access to their civil rights
Term
Reconstruction
Definition
The period 1865–1877 following the Civil War
Term
Transition to free labor?
Definition
Important to the transition to free labor during the early postwar years was the Bureau of
Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen’s
Bureau. Congress created the Bureau in March 1865 to help freed slaves achieve
payment for their work, get an education, and gain access to their civil rights
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