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HIST 151 Quiz 1
Chapters 15-17
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History
Undergraduate 2
09/17/2013

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Sharecropping and Crop Lien Systems
Definition
Sharecropping-collection of people working on land and paid percentage of crops
Crop Lien-taking out loan against next years crop
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13th Amendment
Definition
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except for punishment for a crime
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
Definition
Vetoed twice by Johnson, passed in 1866, allowed that people born in US are allowed to be citizens
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14th Amendment
Definition
All people born in US were citizens and were to be given full and equal protection of law
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15th Amendment
Definition
Allowed blacks to vote, ratified in 1870
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Election of 1876 and Bargain of 1877
Definition
Election too close, Republican (Rutherford B Hayes) takes presidency and Democrats take control of South
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History
Definition
Organized, integrated way of thinking about the past
Term
Historical Practice
Definition
Historians synthesize, analyze and interpret
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Primary Source
Definition
A document or physical object that was created during time of study
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Secondary Source
Definition
A source that interprets and analyzes primary sources
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Narrative Types
Definition
Progressive- begins bad, progresses to good
Declensionist-starts good, declines to bad
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Railroads
Definition
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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Vertical Integration
Definition
Control of every aspect in production
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Robber Barons/Captains of Industry
Definition
Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, John D Rockefeller-monopolies on products, around 200 families controlling countries wealth
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Credit Mobilier Scandal, 1872
Definition
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
Definition
Halted Chinese immigration to US
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Knights of Labor
Definition
Founded in 1869, fought for better wages, safety, child labor laws. Recruited everybody except Asians
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RR Strike of 1877
Definition
Wages were cut in BO RR in VA, strike spreads through 10 states, National Guard called in, over 100 deaths
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Haymarket Affair
Definition
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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Pullman Strike
Definition
1893, wages cut, railyards were destroyed, 27 states affected, Eugene Debs who led strike is jailed
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Social Darwinism
Definition
Application of "natural selection" to justify class distinctions and poverty
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Social Gospel
Definition
Advocates application of Christian principles to social probs of industrialization
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Prescriptive Primary Source
Definition
Tells you what people thought should happen
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Descriptive Primary Source
Definition
Tells you what people thought did happen
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Frederick Jackson Turner and Frontier Thesis
Definition
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
Definition
Harsh winters and drought led to Great Die Up that killed 90% of cows on open range
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Barbed Wire
Definition
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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Dawes Act, 1887
Definition
Allowed president to survey Indian land and divide it up between individual Indians
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