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Ch.17,18,19
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09/21/2011

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What century did Herodotus live in?
Definition
5th century B.C.
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What was Herodotus referred to as?
Definition
"Father of History"
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What did Herodotus write?

What was it about?

Definition

The Histories

An account of wars b/w Greece and Persia

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What did the Histories explain?
Definition
  • Told a story, honored glorious deed 
  • Explained why events occured
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Who lived in the 5th century B.C.?
Definition
  • Thucydides
  • Herodotus
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Who is known as the "Father of Scientific History"?
Definition
Thucydides
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What story did Thucydides write?
Definition
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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What was Thucydides story written about?
Definition
The accounts of civil war b/w Sparta and Athens
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What is a primary source?
Definition
Accounts developed by people who experienced or witnessed the events being studied
Term
Examples of primary sources
Definition
autobiographies, diaries, letters, gov. documents, speeches, etc.
Term
What are secondary sources?
Definition
Developed by people who study them but didn't experience them
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When were secondary sources often created?
Definition
After the event occurred 
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Examples of Secondary sources
Definition
Articles, biographies, books, etc.
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What is the difference b/w traditional and new histories?
Definition

Traditional history: Top-bottom (ex) Politics, military, diplomacy, great figures

 

New histories: Bottom-top (ex) ordinary folk, marginalized peoples, the poor, the oppressed

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What distinguishes academic history from public history?
Definition

Academic history- is in classrooms (ex) articles, presentations, historical sites

 

Public Histories- History outside the classroom (ex) Museums, presentations, historical

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When did the Emancipation Proclamation take place?
Definition
Lincoln issued it after the battle of Antietam
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Whats the date of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Definition
Jan. 1, 1863
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Effects on war?
Definition

-Fight to finish

-Direct challenge to society of the old South

-Enrollment of black into Union Army

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How many blacks were enrolled into the Union Army?
Definition
2000
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With blacks in union army what does it undermine?
Definition
Undermines Slavery (north and south)
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Who marched to sea broke the souths will to fight?
Definition
Sherman
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When did General Lee surrender to grant and where?
Definition

April 9, 1865

Appomattox, Virgina

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How many people died in the Civil War?
Definition
$600,000
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In total, how many people died in the Civil War?
Definition
1,000,000
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What was the cost of the Civil War?
Definition
$15,000,000
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What did the 15th amendment guarantee?
Definition
The right to vote, regardless of race
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What were black codes?
Definition
Local and state laws that reduced newly freed slaves to a condition close to slavery
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What is sharecropping?
Definition
is a type of farm tenancy and landless workers (often former slaves) farmed land in exchange for farm supplies and share of crop
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What was the Ku Klux Klan's 2 goals?
Definition

1) Social control of freed slaves

2) Destroy Republican party in the South

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Who were the 2 running against each other in the election of 1876?
Definition

Reb. Rutherford B. Hayes

Demo. Samuel J. Tilden

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What date was the election commission formed for the election of 1876?
Definition
Jan. 1877
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What year was Lincolns 10% Plan?
Definition
1863-1865
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What is Lincolns 10% Plan?
Definition
specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union
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What are scalawags?
Definition
Are white southern unionist
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What are Carpetbaggers?
Definition
Northerners that jumped at the opportunity to move to the South in the wake of the Confederacy’s defeat. Some moved from the North to promote education, others to modernize the South, and others to seek their fortune
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Who ended up winning the election of 1876?
Definition
Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
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What is the republicans will for the Compromise of 1877?
Definition
  • Recognize Democratic control in southern states
  • Stay out of local affairs
  • Federal land to Suthern RR
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What was the Democrats of the Compromise of 1877?
Definition
  • Not dispute election of Hayes
  • Respect the civil and political rights of blacks

 

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What did the Compromise of 1877 represent?
Definition
The end of Reconstruction
Term
What were Crop-lien systems?
Definition
storekeppers extend credit, place lein or harvest. Unfair manipulations creat perpetual debt.
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Who was Jim Crow and what did he aim for?
Definition
  • He wanted deomcrats ("Reedemers") in political control
  • Postwar: Infromal Segregation
  • 1890's: systematic state-level legal statues of racial segregation
  • Made "Jim Crow" laws

 

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How were the Jim Crow laws able to take affect?
Definition
legality affirmed w/ supreme court decision
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What happend in 1896?
Definition
Plessy V. Ferguson trial
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Where was Homer Plessy from?
Definition
N.O.
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What did Homer Plessy test for trial?
Definition
Tests railcar segregation law 1892
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What happend in the Supreme Court for the Plessy V. Ferguson trial?
Definition
Opens doors for legal segregation on massive scale and enables more Jim Crow laws.
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Who was Fredrick Turner and what did he do?
Definition
  • Prominent American Historian
  • His ideas would define history of the Amer. West for nearly a century
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What book did Fredrick Turner write?

What year was it written?

Definition
  • "The Signifgance of the Frontier in Amer. History"
  • 1893

 

Term
In Turner's view all U.S. History =?
Definition
Colinization of the great western settlement and development
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What does the Frontier promote?
Definition
  • Individualism
  • Independence
  • Democracy
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What helped Western Movement in Turner's idea?
Definition
  • Federal government was essential
  • Republicans dominated congress linked internal improvements to nation
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What was the Timber Act?

What year?

Definition
  • gave away land if trees were planted on it
  • 1873
Term

What was the Desert Land Act?

Year?

Definition
  • Gave land away if it was irrigated
  • 1862
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What is the Department of Agriculture Act?

Year?

 

Definition
  • Provided information that'll be helpful for farmers
  • 1889
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What did the Morill Act do?

Year?

Definition
  • were allowed land to build schools (LSU)
  • 1862
Term
What were the realities not in Turner's thesis?
Definition
  • Railroads, land grants, Big business
  • Cattle Business (Boom & Bust Cycle)
  • Mining
  • Indians...
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What did Turner never mention about?
Definition
Indians
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Turner thought the West was simply what?
Definition
Landscapes for America
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When did reservations for the indians begin?
Definition
1840s
Term
When were the Indian Wars?
Definition
1864-1890
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