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| US Presidents 1865 - 1900 |
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Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant, Ruthford B. Hayes
James Garfield, Chester Arthur
Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland, William McKinley
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Leader of the Radical Republicans who opposed Lincolns plan and wanted harsher punishments for the southern governments for treason
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Radical Republican leader
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| Seceretary of State who bought Alaska and served under Lincoln and Johnson |
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Infamous American general who died at the battle of little big horn
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One of the leaders of the Indian wars and gathered tribes together to fight as one, one of the leaders in the battle of little big horn |
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Steel businessman who worked his workers extra hard, made millions in steel, and gave to charities. Sold his steel company to J. P. Morgan |
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Known as the richest man in American History, who started the Standard Oil Company and became America’s first billionaire |
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Banking tycoon who merged his steel business with Carnegie’s and formed General Electric |
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Wrote many books during the time period that displayed the current era with subtle humor
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American labor union leader who led the AFL |
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land belongs to everyone equally and supported a land value tax
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| Founder of the Theory of Evolution |
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| Democratic Nominee 1896, supported the Populist Party and the silver standard |
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| Tuskagee founder, Washington led the Atlanta Expedition which peacefully sought black integration into society over time (highly favored) |
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| Civil Rights activist who was highly involved with the integration of blacks |
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| "Survival of the Fittest" Social Darwinism |
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Inspired the great American movement westward with his essay on the right of the American to spread west
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| Georgian Congressman who openly supported the KKK |
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| Comedian who wore nose glasses and heavily greased mustaches and eyebrows |
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| Overproduction, loss in per capita money flow, and increased competition |
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officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was adopted on December 6, 1865
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Equal protection clause, Due process clause, and the naturalization citizenship clause
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| prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870 |
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| Laws passed in the south to limit blacks civil rights and liberties |
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| Established in order to help slaves by building schools and registering voters |
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| Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
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· Creation of five military districts in the seceded states not including Tennessee, which had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and was readmitted to the Union
- Requiring congressional approval for new state constitutions (which were required for Confederate states to rejoin the Union)
- Confederate states give voting rights to all men.
- All former Confederate states must ratify the 14th Amendment.
President Andrew Johnson's vetoes of these measures were overridden by Congress
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| enacted over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, denied the President of the United States the power to remove from office anyone who had been appointed by the past President with the advice and consent of the United States Senate unless the Senate also approved the removal. |
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Republican nominee Hayes won the election but after the Compromise of 1877 was struck because of the controversial election
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| Northern people who moved south in “carpetbags”. Southerners coined the word and saw them as threats who came to pillage the south |
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| White Southerners who supported Reconstruction |
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| violent clan that was bent on destroying republican interests and black society |
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| Share cropping where ex slaves farmed on someone else’s land and paid a certain amount for like a monthly rent to grow crops on the owned field |
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| Ended the Spanish American War |
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| financial institution which raises capital, trades securities, and manages corporate mergers/acquisitions |
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Battle where thousands of Indians surrounded General Custer and his men
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| Southern Democrats that were seen to redeem the south for afterwar victory |
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| Almost like a monopoly where companies meet and set prices in order to make record profits |
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| company that only holds stock in order to spread the ownership in order to reduce risk |
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| Rockefeller’s standard oil which made huge profits by crushing competition but was deemed a monopoly latter on |
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| It was the first Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, and today still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation by the United States federal government. |
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South needed to industrialize and become a new economy from the loss of the civil war
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| Labor Union that was short lived after the Haymarket riots |
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| Tensions between labor and management rose when Pullman fired 1/3 of his staff and gave 30% cuts in pay but didnt change the price in products. Pullman was boycotted by the American Railway Union and Pres. Cleveland sent in the National Guard to calm things down, which only heated things back up. The Sherman anti-trust act was used against the strikers and the Supreme Court backed it up. |
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A rally for support of striking workers in Chicago was disrupted violently when a bomb was tossed into a line of policemen who in response opened fire on the crowd
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| Labor Union propelled by Gompers still around today |
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| Doctrine of let the people decide where the market will fall. Free market principals and capitalist principals |
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| written by Henry George in 1879. The book is a treatise on the cyclical nature of an industrial economy and its remedies. |
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| Southern, Eastern, and Jewish Europe |
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| Battle between the AA (Steel and labor union) against Carnegie steel |
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| Grew from Agrarian unrest and supported the transfer to the silver standard |
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| Railroad overbuilding and bank failures |
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| William Jennings Bryan gave the speech which was based around the moving from the de facto gold standard to the silver standard to reverse deflation and start inflation (populist ideals) |
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| political thinking that allowed civil rights to be stomped on by whites also known as segregation |
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| The meeting place of the Trans-continental railroad |
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| Dominate American Industrialists |
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| essay by Carnegie that explained that wealth can be used to charity the poor and help struggling businesses |
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| Protestant movement to use Christian Ethics for social problems |
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| Republicans win the election with Ruthford Hayes but the government ends military presence in the south, put southerners in cabinet positions, and turn over government jobs to southern democrats. |
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America was very isolationist where foreign policy intervention got involved but at the same time was very active in trade with other countries.
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| Interstate Commerce Commission |
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| Behavior of survival of the fittest where rich capitalists found themselves to be superior and deemed themselves as necessary for the countries survival. Social Darwinism also opened up the door to more racism and biased thoughts. |
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| distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma |
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| Republican activists that supported Grover Clevland |
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| Open trade policy that opened the door to China |
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Construction company who worked for the Union Pacific and was at the same time owned by them. So government money given to the company for reimbursement was overpriced.
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| Expansion of control in order to gain resources or political control |
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| Laws that made blacks into second hand citizens |
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| Massive strike that spread throughout New England |
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