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| Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except for punishment for a crime |
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| Vetoed twice by Johnson, passed in 1866, allowed that people born in US are allowed to be citizens |
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| All people born in US were citizens and were to be given full and equal protection of law |
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| Allowed blacks to vote, ratified in 1870 |
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| Election of 1876 and Bargain of 1877 |
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| Election too close, Republican (Rutherford B Hayes) takes presidency and Democrats take control of South |
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| Organized, integrated way of thinking about the past |
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| Historians synthesize, analyze and interpret |
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| Faster means of travel across country, redefined meaning of time, led to creation of time zones. America had more RR track in 1900 than anywhere else in world |
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| Control of every aspect in production |
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| Robber Barons/Captains of Industry |
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| Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, John D Rockefeller-monopolies on products, around 200 families controlling countries wealth |
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| Credit Mobilier Scandal, 1872 |
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| Millions of dollars in overcharges for building the Union Pacific Railroad were exposed, members of President Grants admin. were involved |
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| Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 |
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| Halted Chinese immigration to US |
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| Founded in 1869, fought for better wages, safety, child labor laws. Recruited everybody except Asians |
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| Wages were cut in BO RR in VA, strike spreads through 10 states, National Guard called in, over 100 deaths |
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| 1866 Parade, was peaceful congregation of up to 1 million people, 3 people shot, 6 officers killed by bomb, 8 people were then arrested for bomb |
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| 1893, wages cut, railyards were destroyed, 27 states affected, Eugene Debs who led strike is jailed |
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| Application of "natural selection" to justify class distinctions and poverty |
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| Advocates application of Christian principles to social probs of industrialization |
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| Tells you what people thought should happen |
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| Descriptive Primary Source |
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| Tells you what people thought did happen |
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| Frederick Jackson Turner and Frontier Thesis |
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| A speech given at the Colombian Exposition in Chicago explaining how the American Frontier of free land has led to American democracy |
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| Collapse of Cattle Industry, Great Die up of 1886-87 |
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| Harsh winters and drought led to Great Die Up that killed 90% of cows on open range |
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| Created in 1874, helped to contain cattle, also contributed to Great Die Up when cattle could not find way around fence |
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| Allowed president to survey Indian land and divide it up between individual Indians |
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| Newlands Reclamation Act, 1902 |
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| NAvajo Livestock Reduction Act |
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