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American History
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History
Undergraduate 1
03/03/2015

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10% plan
Definition
had to swear loyalty to union. when 10% of states population swear they can get back into congress
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Freedman Bureua
Definition
kept freedmen from getting reenslaved, set up schools, employment agencies, and special courts for whites who harm blacks
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Civil Rights Act of 1877
Definition
cant pass laws directed at blacks
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Reconstruction Act of 1887
Definition
Military occupation of the south
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
1. Withdrew troops from south, appointed a southener to the Cabinet, and used feds funding to rebuild the south. 2. South agrees to repect rights of freedmen. 3. North agrees because tired of dealing with it, didvided in Republican party, done enough, frustrated and distracted
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Election of 1876
Definition

Hayes(rep) vs Tilden(dem)

Tilden won popular but Hayes won Electorial College.

had a meeting to discuss election frauds, found out had the same thoughts and ideas so Hayes was let to be president

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Agrarian Myth
Definition

Farmers are America's backbone

wouldnt be where we are without the farmers

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Grange Laws
Definition
State Government regulated business
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farmers alliance 1880s
Definition

regulate monopolies

political reforms: recall, initive, and referendum

loans for crops in greenbacks, sub-treasure-govt warehouse to store crops in to sell later for more money

sharecroppers couldnt get any credit

80% loan from govt

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Great American Desert
Definition

minerals valuable, miners moved west

ate beef

dug wells deeper and plows for harder ground

large scale farms

end of frontier

frontier thesis by Frederick Jackson Turner

 

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Railroad as Innovators
Definition

cost cutting by monthly or quarterly reports

branch managers

mass production

mergers(horizontal and vertical)

 

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Push Factos of the Great Migration
Definition

Increase in lynching

segregation

couldnt vote

droughts

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Strikes
Definition

1877 railroad strike

1892 Homestead Strike

1894 Pullman Strike

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