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Motivations for Settlers to move West
They wanted to make a better living. -
7 factors of America's industrial growth
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Manifest Destiny
It first appeared in a newspaper article on the annexation of Texas. -
Urbanization
It is like the process of making something. -
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Civil War
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3 Reconstruction Plans
Johnson Plan, Lincoln Plan, and The Radical Republicans. -
Wade-Davis Bill
Response to Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan. -
Pocket Veto
Lincoln vetoed Wade-Davis Bill.Override the veto. -
3 Reconstruction Amendments
13th Amendmdent, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment. -
Black Codes
Laws passed by Southern States. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Abandoned Lands. It's formally known as the Bureau of Refuges. -
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Reconstruction
The period of rebuilding after the Civil War. Confederate States being admitted to the Union. -
Civil Rights Bill
It made it so all persons born in the United States were now citizens. -
The Reconstruction Act
Laid out the process for readmitting Southern States into the Union. -
Grandfather Clauses
An old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases. -
Transcontinental Railroad
It chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies. -
Gilded Age
It meant "the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath." -
Monopoly
They had attacked and made many levels of success. When larger comapanies took over small companoes. -
John D. Rockefeller
Founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. -
Compromise of 1877
Samual Tiden defeats Rutherford B. Hayes in the election of 1876's popular vote -
Civil Rights Case of 1883
The United States Supreme Court ruled. It had led to discrimination in many different places. -
Civil Service Act
It established the positions within the federal government. -
Andrew Carnegie
He entered the steel buisness in 1887. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Outlawed biusness practices. -
Closing of the Frontier
When someone had announced that the frontier was closed. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. -
Old Immigrants
They had made a sharp increase in immigrants in the late 1800's to the 1920's. -
New Immigrants
It was a term from the late 1800's that came from many different places. -
Jim Crows Laws
State and local laws that enforced segregation in the Southern United States. -
Exploited Workers
Someone treating someone unfairly. -
9/11
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Birthday
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Texas
I went to Texas a while ago.
