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7 Factors of America's Industrial Growth
1800
Labor
Capital
Natural Recorces
Techolagy
Transportation
Advantages
Cooperation -
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Motivation to Settle back West
When the locust came in and started eating what little crop they had most people moved back West to get away from the pleauge. For the people that stayed though were very luck when the locust went extinct. -
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Manifest Destiny
This is the God given right to expant from coast to coast. -
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Transcontinental Railroad
The federal government offered 170 million acres in land grants. The Central Pacific moved eastward from Sacremento and the Union Pacific moved westward from Omaha, Nebraska. -
Urbanization
This was when all the immigrants started to move West and started to make societies. -
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Civil War Reconstruction
Issue-Slavery -
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Civil War
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3 Reconstruction Plans
The 3 reconstruction plans were:
Andrew Johnson's plan-Pardoned Confederates if they pledged loyalty to the U.S. No forgiveness for Confederated that owned more then $20,000. Those denied forgiveness could petition for Johnson.
Abraham Lincoln's plan-Pardoned Confederates if they pledged loyalty to the U.S. Denied temporary forgiveness to High Confederate officials.
The Radical Republican's (Congress) plan-Wanted revenge, Concern for the freedmen, and political concerns. -
Wade-Davis Bill
Instead of Lincolns 10% plan they wanted 50% plan. Promised to redistributed southern land. Lincoln let the bill die in a pocket veto. -
Pocket Veto
President Jonathan made the first Pocket Veto ever. A pocket veto is a way for the president to not seam like the guys that always says "No". He leaves the bill unatended untill congress goes into recess and it is dismised. -
3 Reconstruction Amendments
13 Amendment-Abolished slavery
14 Amendment-This amendment gave all natural-born citizens natural-born rights.
15 Amendment-All American citizens can vote. -
Freedman's Bureau
This gave newly freed men rights like a white man. Over 250,000 African Americans gained their first rights. This created jobs, buissnesses, and edicated thousands of Afercan americans. -
Black Code
Law that countered the Freedman's rights. This astablished vertual slavers. Slaves had cerfues and would get beat by white. Blacks could not testify aganst whites either. This made congress very upset. -
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Reconstruction
Rebuilding of the Souths Infastructure, Econemy, and rebuilding trust between the North and South -
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Reconstruction of Amendments.
13th Amendment- Prohibition of slavery
14th Amendment- Equal protection
15th Amendment-Connot deny the right to vote based on race. -
CIvil Rights Bill
This gave backs the same citizenship as whites. This also forbade the passage of discriminatory laws. Final this outlawed black code. -
The Reconstruction Act
This act divided the United States into five different unions. This was because the north put the South under Military rule. -
Gilded Age
The 19th century was called the Guilded Age buy Mark Twain because he said it was glittery on top but coruped underneth. (1870 to 1880) -
John D. Rockefeller
He founded Standard Oil in 1870. By 1880 he had a monopoly of 90% and became the first ever billionaire. John drove other companies out of buisness because he could lower prices and he could still stay in buisness. -
Monopoly
Monopolies were originaly created by John D. Rockefeller. It was when a business was rich enouph to drop prices to force other componies out of business. -
Compromise of 1877
Hayes became the 19th president of the United States. Three dirupted states lead to charge of fraud. -
Old Immigration
People immigrated from other countries to the U.S to find jobs. After the old immigrants a new generations had the same idea. -
New Immigrants
Afte the Old Immigrants were sucsessful other imigrnts from other places began to come to the U.S. But there was a problem, then could not speak English. -
Exploited Workers
Exploited workers were (Boys) that worked in coal mines. (girls and women) worked in factories. They got low pay for working long hours. They worked in unsafe enviroments. -
Old Immigrants
Came prior 1880 - From Great Britan, Germany, and Scandinavia looking for a better life. -
New Immigrants
In the late 1880s, a new wave of immigrants came through from Italy, Greece. There was a problem with the new immigrant though. They did not speak very good English. -
Exploited Workers
The boys worked in the coal mines and the girls & women worked in factories. There were problems like low pay and long hours. There was poor & unsafe working condistions. -
Civil Rights Case of 1883
The Supreme Court ruled that facilities could be separated as long as they were equal. -
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Civil Rights Movement
Southern business owners were refused public service to blacks. 14th amendment applied only to the state; private citizens could now leagaly discriminate based on race. -
Andrew Carnegie
He was born into a poor family. He eventualy became the owner of a steel factory that pruduced steel for 25% of the U.S. -
Closing of the Fontier
Free land was no longer available. There was two waves of immigrants that came through. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This act simply outlawed business monopolies. -
Interstate Commerce Act
This act sought to end discrimination by railroads aginst small shippers. -
Civil Service Act
Sought to curb government coruption by requiering applications for certian governmental jobs to take a competitive examination. -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
Homer Plessy was 1/8th black and tried to sit in the white section of a trin car. He was arrested. -
Jim Crow Law
This was 3 laws created to allow all people to go to school to have equal edecation. -
9/11
I like learning about 9/11. It is an important event in U.S. history. Every year we go over 9/11 I learn more about the event. -
My Birth
I was born on February 4, 2004 at 10:24 AM at Borgess in Kalamazoo. -
Riding quads with my parents
My parents once owned 3 lots in Canada but now only own 1. Anyways I love rideing my quads and with my parents its fun to go through the mud next to my dad and get him muddy. He goes close to the edge of the mud slowley. I gas it and go straight for the middle.
