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Motivations For Settlers To Move West
Some motivations were to find better land, better crops, gold rush, and just a better living. -
7 Factors Of Americans Industrial Growth
Labor, Capital, Natural Resources, Technology, Consumers, Transportation, Government. -
Old Immigrants
The United States is a nation of immigrants. Every American is either an immigrant or has ancestors who were immigrants. ... One of the greatest periods of immigration occurred during the 1800s to the 1920s -
Exploited Works
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Freedoms Bureau
1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs -
Jim Crow Laws
Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites in Southern states after the end of slavery. -
Two Front War
situation Germany found itself in under which it had to fight enemies on both its eastern and western borders. -
Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt's promise of fair and equal treatment for all -
Spoils System
A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends. Office holders reward their supporters with federal jobs. -
Laissez-faire
Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs. -
Pendelton Civil Service Act
Law requiring people to take a civil service exam for certain government jobs. Ended hiring practices based on the spoils system. -
Legislative Branch
Legislative Branch makes the laws. -
Sharecropping
System in which landowners provide farmers with housing and supplies in return for a portion of their crops. -
W.E.B DuBois
Was the founder of the NAACP which fought to gain equal treatment for African Americans. -
Imperialism
Taking over other countries. -
Alliance
An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit -
Militarism
is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military -
Nationalism
ationalism is a political, social, and economic ideology and movement characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation. -
Radical Republican
After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South. ANd overturn Johnsons vetoes on major Reconsturction legislation -
Black Codes
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War -
Reunify the Nation
One of President Lincoln's first goal for Reconstruction. -
President Andrew Johnson Vetoed
Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 -
Booker T Washington
African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality. -
Executive Branch
The executive executes and enforces the laws. -
Civil Service Act
Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation -
John D Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American oil industry business Very rich man -
Manifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
My Favorite Historical Event
The California Gold Rush was definitely one of my favorite things thing to learn about in history class it was very interesting. -
Urbanization
Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas -
Civil War
1861-1865, The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion. -
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Civil War
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3 Reconstruction Plans
The three plans made to reconstruct the south from the Civil War. -
Pocket Veto
An direct veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session. -
Wade- Davis Bill
The Wade Davis Bill required 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union. -
3 Reconstruction Amendments
13, 14, and 15 Amendments. -
13th Amendment
DescriptionThe Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
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Reconstruction
The period of rebuilding after the Civil War, during which the defeated confederate states were readmitted to the Union. -
Civil Rights Bill
A landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
The Reconstruction Act
Rebulding of the South -
14th Amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. -
Transcontinental Railroad
A railroad aross the United States finished in 1869. -
African Americans
Were the ethnic group that were affected during the Gilded Age. -
Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. -
15th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Compromise of 1877
Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river -
Civil service reform
The act of 1883 made it so that people who wanted government jobs had to take a test to show they had ability. No more government jobs given out by parties and "machines" - ended the 'soils system' -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry -
Closing Of The Frontier
A year after the Oklahoma Land Rush, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the frontier was closed. The 1890 census had shown that a frontier line, a point beyond which the population density was less than two persons per square mile, no longer existed. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Approved July 2, 1890, The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. And for promoting fair industrial competiton. -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
U.S. Supreme Court case from 1896 that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private institutions. 'Seperate but equal' -
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
How reforms came about
Brought in by industry, labor regulations, health and saftey laws, anti-trust laws, and government. -
Muckrakers
A group of writers who described the problems facing Americans
Upton Sinclair- meat-packing industry
Frank Norris- railroad and gain trusts
Lincoln Steffens- corruption in city governments
Ida Tarbell- oil industry -
Secret ballot
voting to be a done in secret so that psrty leaders nd machine bosses could not know how people voted. -
Direct Primary
gave people the power to choose who they wanted to run for political office. -
Work days
laws establishing a minimum wage and an 8-hour work day -
Theodore Roosevelt- progressive leader
worked to break up trusts and end monopolies; limit the power of 'big business'
worked to end 'machine politics' control of city governments by small groups)
promoted conservation of natrual resources; established National Park System -
Progressivism
What is it? Progress, Reform movement, positve change -
Reform
To imorove, to change or the btter. -
3 types of reform
Social reform- help the poor and the needy
Political reform- end corruption in government, give 'common people' more control over government
Economic reform- control (regulate) 'big businesses' -
Woodrow Wilson- another progressive leader
"new freedom" Wilson program to:
-cut don on the power of big business
-reduce tariffs
-reform the banking industry
-help Americans in need -
William Howard Taft
Taft supported Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal" policy of attempting to strike a balance between employers and employees and conservatives and Progressives, but it soon proved impossible to please everyone. Taft simply didn't have Roosevelt's personal charisma. Over time, he wound up satisfying conservatives more often than Progressives. His administration nonetheless pursued more antitrust suits than Roosevelt. -
Pure food and drug law
protected people from unsafe food and medicines; the first of many subsequent reguations to achieve this goal. -
16th amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
What caused WW1
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia to support Serbia, and Germany declared war on Russia. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of "intoxicating liquors" in the United States -
New Immigrants
The United States is a nation of immigrants. Every American is either an immigrant or has ancestors who were immigrants. ... One of the greatest periods of immigration occurred during the 1800s to the 1920s -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. Women can vote. -
Monopoly
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. -
17th amendment
Direct elcetion of U.S. senators; gave common poeple more control over who represented them in Congress (prior to this U.S. Sentors had been chosen by State Legislatures) Let people pick who they believed was the right fit. -
My Birthday
The day I came into the world. -
Dinger
The day I hit my very first home run!! That was definitely one of the best feelings I had ever experienced.
