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Congress in 1857
Preservation of the union
Disagreed with abolition
Lincolns second vp
Support from war democrats |
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| Reconstruction Acts - i. Military districting of former rebel states commanded by a general to serve as a current acting form of government |
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Wrongly removed Secretary of War
Wanted to fire him and replace him with someone who agree with him
impeached but not found guilty |
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Restricted social rights of freedmen
Wanted to remove them from office |
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Help secure rights of freedmen
Federal oversight
Controversial among southerners and democrats
First major action to provide food relief for slaves and refugees
Biggest success – establishing public education in the South |
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Northerners that picked up their bags and headed South
Opportunists, exploiting South’s weakened position |
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Agriculture dominant in the South
depression from the anaconda
land grants offered to freedmen and poor whites
Crops used to feed themselves or sold – blacks worked the land
Exploitation of slaves through binding contracts, black codes, terrorist groups |
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| Naturalization Act of 1870 |
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Process of gaining citizenship
Support 14th amendment |
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Gold standard
Controversial in mining towns |
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| Power to pursue domestic terrorists by intervening in state affairs, suspend habeus corpus, force act could monitor and guarantee state and local elections |
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| outlaw discrimination, guarantees equality |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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Connect the East to the West
Railroad act - $ to Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad
Goal to complete line connecting Omaha, NE, and Oakland, CA
Second Transcontinental telegraph line
Golden Spike |
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American businessman, controlled Union, Missouri, and Erie Railroads (15% of rail lines in US)
Tried to buy up gold when Grant was considering the Coinage Act |
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Built first refinery in 1863
Controls 88% of oil and shipping refinery in 1890 – monopoly
Manages standard oil – trustee system |
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Started iron working and bridgebuilding company in 1865
Empire with Carnegie Steel Works – 1880 |
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Higher quality steel and iron
Changed rail design and industrial manufacturing
Carnegie became the world’s largest supplier |
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Acquired rail companies from Jay Gould, Carnegie Steel in 1900
Combined into US Steel
JP Morgan and Co - investment bank
So rich he could bail the us treasury out of bankruptcy |
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Inspired by the development of telegraph
Commercial potential and innovation
Began work for Western Union
Research for a factory at Menlo Park
Personally owns developed patents |
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Industrialists
term used for a powerful 19th century American businessman. By the 1890s the term was used to attack any businessman who used questionable practices to become wealthy. It combines the sense of criminal ("robber") and illegitimate aristocracy ("baron") |
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| Wanted silver to back currency |
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| silver and gold backing up company |
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| Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 |
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Appease membership of growing silver movement
US government to buy 4.5 mill oz of mined silver
32oz = 1$, government says 16oz = 1$
Traded asap |
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Panic of 1893
Government didn’t guarantee money back from banks if something happened
Money lost value
Returned to silver standard
RR become holding companies
Lose money from expansion
RR went bankrupt |
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| Everyone going to collect their money if back goes bankrupt |
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Depletes gold reserves
Panics investors
Bankruptcy
France loans US 3.5 million oz gold |
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Better represent poor agrarians
Crusade against major industrial powers |
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Forming a union
Organization of workers to put pressure on industry |
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Clause of secrecy
Advocate beliefs of government
Strikes against companies
Involved in local trade unions |
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| All Chinese immigration stopped – taking all the jobs |
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Nepotism
No prearranged employment |
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Dictator of policies
Bimetalism
Liberal democrats
Anti Darwinism
Income tax |
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i. Octorooon (1/8 niggaaa)
ii. Raised a freed man but could get away with being white
iii. Separate Car Act 1890 – whites and blacks in different cars
iv. Tries to integrate rail systems – arrested
1. They are allowed to set laws like that
v. Supreme court
1. Basis for legal segregation |
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a. Limited time
b. Couldn’t participate in politics
c. No stocks
d. Set profits
e. Charter could be removed
f. Liability for debts |
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| Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific |
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a. New law: deductions in their taxes
b. Cali- more money
c. Companies like people
i. Can buy stock and own other companies
ii. No longer has to operate in the public trust |
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