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PLEBE HI104 TEE
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History
Undergraduate 1
05/13/2012

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Freedmen's Bureau
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aid former slaves through legal food and housing, oversight, education, health care, and employment contracts with private landowners. It became a key agency during Reconstruction, assisting freedmen (freed ex-slaves) in the South.
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Sharecropping
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Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land
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Radical Reconstruction
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Rebuilding of South from 1863-1877, Jim Crow, U.S Military. It failed.
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Enforcement Acts
Definition
Meant to protect rights of blacks following 14th amendment
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election, regarded as the second "corrupt bargain", and ended Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction (Hayes)
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"New South"
Definition
The New South was no longer to be dependent on banned slave labor or predominantly upon the raising of cotton, but rather industrialized and part of a modern national economy. Railroad and Manufacturing.
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Atlanta Compromise
Definition
The agreement was that Southern blacks would work weekly and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law
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NAACP
Definition
1909 to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination
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Frontier Thesis
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egalitarian, democratic, aggressive, and innovative features of the American character has been the American frontier experience
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Nativism
Definition
Nativism typically means opposition to immigration and efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien
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Plessy V. Ferguson
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upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities
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Transcontinental Railroad
Definition
March 10, 1869, national economy,jobs,transported freight
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Interstate Commerce Act
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1887, regulated monopolistic railroad practices. Reasonable and just rates
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Vertical/Horizontal Integration
Definition
H-Firm Merging V-Firm owning production& Supply
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Thomas A. Edison
Definition
Lightbulb, 1,000 patents
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Knights of Labor
Definition
social and cultural uplift of the workingman, rejected Socialism and radicalism, demanded the eight-hour day, and promoted the producers
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Samuel Gompers
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1892 American Federation of Labor-secure shorter hours and higher wages, the first essential steps, he believed, to emancipating labor
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Pullman Strike
Definition
1894-wage reduction,in Pullman Palace Car company-train cars
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Social Darwinism
Definition
sought to apply biological concepts to sociology and politics
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Jacob Riis
Definition
"muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City
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Women's Christian Temperance Union
Definition
first mass organization among women devoted to social reform
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Social Gospel
Definition
applied Christian ethics to social problems,Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century
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Political Machine
Definition
political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts
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Farmers' Alliance
Definition
organized agrarian economic movement amongst U.S. farmers that flourished in the 1880s,higher commodity prices through collective action
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Pendleton Act
Definition
federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit/civil service
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Hard Money/Soft Money
Definition
Private financial institutions-gold standardrd/Gov't Regulate Money Loose standard inflation
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Populism
Definition
People against the elite Populist-1896
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Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism
Definition
Leave it alone constit.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
Definition
Democrat Anti Imperialist Sea Power
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Philippine Revolution
Definition
Secession of Philippines Islands from Spanish empire
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Platt Amendment
Definition
Stimulates conditions for withdrawal of U.S Troops in Cuba
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Open Door Policy
Definition
Foreign Affairs policy in 1899-keep ports open to ships of all nations
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Roosevelt Corollary
Definition
Corollary in Monroe Doctrine, U.S will intervene in Conflicts between European nations and Latin America
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