Term
Radical Republicans
Who were they?
What did they stand for?
What did they want with Reconstruction |
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| Radical republicans were anti war republicans. After the war they wanted to take full control of the south to build up a republican basis. They also wanted to eliminate all confederate nationalism and create rights or newly Freedman. |
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| Newly freed black slaves, looking for work, families and land. |
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Johnson's ideas of Reconstruction
What were they?
What did he do to help the freedman?
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Johnson supported suffrage if the states allowed it.
Gave federal government permission to control southern states until they are ready to rejoin the union.
southern officials who graduated from annapolis or west point have to apply for a personal pardon from Johnson. As do people with more than 20,000 dollars of property.
Johnson took away the land that Sherman had set up for new Freedman and sold it to white southern farmers.
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| what did the southern states have to do to be deemed ready to rejoin the union? |
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| they must invalidate secession, and eliminate slavery. |
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Term
| What is the 14th amendment? |
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Definition
Made blacks officially citizens.
prohibits local and state governments to deprive people of life, liberty and property.
made sure all men had all rights of the constitution equally. all men are created equal. |
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Term
| What was the civil rights act of 1866? |
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Definition
| made all freedman citizens. Made it illegal to discriminate based on race. Though it made no consequences if someone discriminated against them. This passed despite Johnson's Veto. |
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| What is the first reconstruction act? |
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Definition
| put the south into military districts and rule and established strict requirements for their readmission into the union. It also took away the rights to vote for the same rebels who could not run for office. |
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| What is the tenure of office act |
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Definition
| it required state approval before the president could fire members of his cabinet and other officials who have been confirmed by the senate. Johnson vetoed this, but congress passed it. |
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| Who was the first state to re-enter the union? |
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Term
| What is the Army Appropriations Act? |
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Definition
| it removed power from Johnson to remove/change military without consent of congress. |
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| What happened with Johnson and Stanton? |
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Definition
| Johnson suspended Stanton. He appointed Thomas to his seat. But, as congress had passed the tenure of office act, the seat was not legitimize. Stanton refused to leave. Then congress appealed for impeachment of Johnson |
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| southern whites who supported reconstruction and carpetbaggers |
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| any northerner who moved to the south to exploit them and make money. |
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| What is the 15th amendment |
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Definition
SUFFRAGE TO ALL
EXCEPT DA LADIES |
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Term
| What is the freedman's bureau? |
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Definition
| was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed refugees and freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865-1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. |
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Term
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Definition
| when a white landowner would lend land and tools to freedman and get profits from the crop in return |
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Term
ex-parte milligan
What is it?
What did it do? |
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Definition
| This was a supreme court case. Lambdin P. Milligan was planning to free confederate soldiers that had been captured by the union. He was sentenced to hang by a military court. The result was that while civil courts are in order, the rule of the military court does not matter. |
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| Who was the president after Johnson? |
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Term
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| The Act guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in "public accommodations" (i.e. inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement). |
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| 1896 court case establishing the policy of seperate but equal in terms of segregation. |
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What happened in 1873?
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| a sauk and fox war chief. his tribe was located in illinois. |
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Term
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| a sauk and fox war chief located near Black Hawks tribe in Illinois. He was pro-American. |
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Term
| Why was black hawks tribe called the british indians? |
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Definition
| because they favored britain over america |
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Term
| What was the united states problem with Blackhawk (go into the whole story...) |
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Definition
| Keokuk obliged to move his tribe to Iowa so the United States could bank on the plentiful amounts of lead. After showering Keokuk with many gifts, the united states urged Black Hawk to move as well. Black hawk refused until 1831 when the Illinois militia came to move them into Iowa. |
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Term
| What does blackhawk do in retaliation of the Illinois Militia moving him to Iowa |
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Definition
| Sends Neopope to canada to see if british want to form an alliance, they refuse but neopope gets confused and tells black hawk they might be interested. |
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Term
| Where did Black Hawk move his tribe to on April 1st? |
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Definition
| He moved 2,000 sauk and fox indians to Rock Island. |
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Term
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Definition
| illinois militia come to rock island to make black hawks tribe move back to allocated land. blackhawk sends 12 natives to deal with the 250 soldiers. 12 americans were killed in the fight, military retreats and claims thousands of warriors were there. |
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Term
| What happened at Bad Axe River |
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Definition
| Blackhawk was trying to relocate his tribe safely. Militia met them at bad axe river. The natives were stuck on an island in the middle of the river. people attacked on all sides. two hundred mostly women and children were killed. |
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Term
| What happened and led up to the battle of sand creek? |
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Definition
| A group of cheyenne mutilated a family. Chivington went to Sand Creek to speak to the cheyenne chief. Chief big kettle had signed a peace treaty with the United States, Chivington open fired on the camp. 210 indians were massacred. |
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Term
| How many indians were relocated to the reservations by 1870? where were these reservations? |
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Definition
| 120,000 were moved to the lands south of kansas and north of nebraska. |
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Term
What was the battle of little big horn?
Who was in it?
When did it take place?
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Definition
Sioux and cheyenne moved back to homelands. During the summer George Custer ordered an attack on rosebud river. He miscounted how many warriors were there and split up his men. Sioux outnumbered them greatly. The american troops were dead within an hour.
summer of 1876. |
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Term
What was the Dawes Act of 1877?
What did it do?
Did it fail?
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Definition
create a nation of indians who were Christian farmers and private land owners. dissolved reservations into holdings for families. If they stay and farm for twenty five years on that plot of land they get the deed and they get citizenship.
it pretty much failed. |
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Term
Why was the Dawes Act ineffective?
three reasons |
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Definition
government pocketed the money when they sold the land which was promised to go towards school funds
sold the better land to white farmers
new religions were starting |
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Term
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| a thirty five year old indian. New years day in 1889 he reported visiting heaven and god told him to perform a dance to reunite them with the dead ancestors in a land without sickness. |
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Term
| What is the whole deal with the ghost dance? |
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Definition
| The word spreads among tribes, all tribes begin to perform this ghost dance. Daniel royer, an american agent sees the dance and calls in the army. Sioux moves out to the badlands so they can continue the dance. troops fear sitting bull and his tribe. After breaking into Sitting Bulls home, they shoot him after he resists arrest. more tribes move into the badlands. |
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| a war hero from the battle of little big horn. He was a chief who was shot and killed after resisting arrest due to the ghost dance. |
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Term
| What happened at Wounded knee |
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Definition
| Sioux were moving back to their territory, Followed the cavalry to wounded knee creek. United states soldiers surrounded the camp in order to get the natives to surrender their firearms. A fight broke out, a shot was fired and 150 sioux were killed. |
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Term
| What are the ways to gain power as an indian |
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Definition
| sharing wealth, fighting in battles |
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Term
What are the meetings at Fort Laramie ad Atkinson?
What did they establish?
When were they? |
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Definition
Laramie 1851, Atkinson 1853
established safe travel for migrants,
secure permission for us to establish military forts in indian territory
attempted to establish boundaries (map indians into existance) |
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Term
| What are four reasons that tensions between migrants and indians rose? |
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Definition
1. arrival of migrants
2. expansion of the railroad, nature of plains society decentralization of political affairs, death of buffalo population
3. treaty chiefs who gave themselves things that werent theirs to agree.
4. sioux. |
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| he killed a lot of buffalo. had a touring wild west show. He pushed for womens and native rights. |
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Term
| What are the four things the railroad did for the country? |
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Definition
1. completely transformed time and space
2. necessitated an agreement on time itself (established time zones)
3. standard tracks
4. Brought goods faster |
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Term
| What was the interstate commerce act |
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Definition
| protected the citizens rights to a balanced fare for railroads. |
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Term
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Definition
| gave out grants of 160 acres of land out west. |
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Term
| How many acres did the railroad get in subsidies |
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Definition
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Term
| What were some of womens jobs out west? |
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Definition
| prostitutes, seamstress, teachers, cooks |
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Term
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Definition
| the time where americans began to get obscenely wealthy in the post civil war era. |
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Term
| What were new women? What are their attributes? |
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Definition
| New women are the working women of the Gilded age. they are college educated, job having, politically active, club forming, marriage delaying, lesser children having women. bicycle is their symbol. |
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Term
| What is the problem with cities? |
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Definition
| they became hives of ethnic enclaves. segregated. Poor, insanitary living situations. too many people per house. |
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Term
| What were tenement houses? |
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Definition
| apartments where immigrants lived in very poor conditions. often crowded with twelve to thirteen people per room. |
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Term
What was the reform in the cities?
five things |
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Definition
-germ theory invented
-health boards
-improved sewers
-parks
-education is mandatory |
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Term
| what is a settlement house? |
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Definition
| a house used to help those impoverished be in better living conditions. |
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Term
| what did settlement houses provide for women |
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Definition
| daycare, plays, job bureau, exposure to the arts. |
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Term
What is the farmers alliance?
what did they blame for struggles? |
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Definition
a third party which eventually turned into the people's party.
they blamed exploitative bankers
railroad execs and
wallstreet |
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Term
What did the peoples party support?
3 |
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Definition
Smashing monopolies
gradual income tax
direct senator elections |
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Term
What happened in the 1896 election?
who did each party run? |
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Definition
Republicans ran Mckinley
Democrats ran William Jennings brian
Peoples ran William Jennings brian
vote is split, Mckinley wins. |
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Term
| What is social darwinism? |
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Definition
| darwins theory of evolution can be expanded to subjugating people who deemed unfit: help along evolution. |
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Term
| U.S. and Spain war of 1898 |
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Definition
| after the Maine sinks, U.S. attacks spain in the Phillipines. Gains control of the Phillipines and Cuba. |
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Term
| Who is queen liliukilani? |
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Definition
| the queen of hawaii who the americans overthrew in order to gain control of the state. |
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Term
| what is manifest destiny? |
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Definition
| americans were destined to spread from sea to shining sea of the united states. |
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Term
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Definition
divided Confed states (except Tennessee) into 5 military districts
commanders in districts oversaw constitutional conventions & creation of state constitutions
would last until states created new constitutions that included black suffrage, the permanent disfranchisement of Confederate leaders, and ratification of the 14th Amendment
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