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Period: to
Civil War
The war over slavery -
Reconstruction
Reuniting the union and the south and their economy and to protect the newly freedmen -
Wade-Davis bill
an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it was too harsh. -
13th Amendment
the amendment that abolished slavery -
Abraham Lincoln
The president who freed the slaves and was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth -
Freedmen's Bureau
Organization run by the army to care for and protect the Southern Blacks after the Civil War -
Consumers
The people who Bought your products -
Labor
The people who would work for you -
14th Amendment
Declared that all persons born in the USA are citizens and are guaranteed equal rights protection of the laws -
Horizontal intergartion
To buy all of the same things (control the market) -
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Started in shipping then moved to railroads -
The Seven Factors of American Growth
When America started to grow -
Tariffs
The tax on American goods -
"Old Immigrants" :-(
The immigrants who came before 1880
They came From West and North of Europe -
The Industry Exploited Workers
By this time Women and children made up 50% of the workforce -
New immigrants
The immigrants who came after 1880
They came from the south and east of Europe -
Vertical Integration
Buying Up all the resources, Transportation, etc. -
James D Rockefeller
By 1890 He owned 90% of the oil industry -
The USS Maine explodes
The start /(Cause) of the Spanish American War -
Period: to
Spanish American War
The War For Cuba's independence -
Causes of WWI
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Natinolism
Extreme Leaders -
Central Powers
The Bad Guys of WWI Germany Astria-Hungary Turkey, and originally Italy -
The Spark of WWI
The assassination of Austria's Heir to the Throne -
Period: to
WWI
"The war to end all wars" -
Allies
The "Good Guys" in WWI. Russia, France, Portugal, Serbia, and Great Britain- United States - Italy -
Two War Front
The situation where Germany found itself in under which it had to fight enemies on both it's eastern and western borders -
Trenches
10ft Deep Ditch
Soldiers are safe from enemy fire
