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Effects of the Civil war
Strengthened the supremacy of federal goverment over the states, strengthened the souths economic development
Southern hardships
Black southerners, plantation owners over 100 million. Worth of southern plantations and cotton seized through the captured/abandoned property act
13th amendment
Abolished slavery thoughout the United States
Short term causes of the civil war
Political tensions in the south, growing tensions over slavery, and westward expansion
Why was the freeman’s beru created?
The freedman’s beru was created to help new freed men to get on there feet by providing food, clothing and shelter
Lincoln’s total war approach
Lincoln wanted to destroy the confederacy’s ability to fight targeting both military and civilian infrastructure
Efforts to challenge the amendments
Making tests that prohibited men to vote, literacy test, KKK
Areas in society that needed to be reconstructed after the war
Congress, the economy, social integration of newly freedman, and rebuilding the south after damage
Who were the Radical republicans of congress
The radical republicans were a fraction of the Republican Party who believed in the equality of all citizens including African Americans.
Whiskey ring
People of Ulysses S. Grants party be an to uphold scandles in congress robbing billions of tax profits.
Credit mobilizer scandal
Hired themselves to build the railroad and paid themselves huge fees, this distributed shared of stock to congression to avoid problems
Liberal Republican Party
in response to grants corruption presidency, influence the Republican Party to reform itself
Amnesty act
Many liberal republican argue against most former confederate leaders and military officials
Panic of 1873
Overproduction of railroads,mines,Factories and farm products which caused bankers to make too many risky loans to finance growth causing the bankrupts of 15,000 businesses to go bankrupt
Democratic voting Bloc
Many white southerners chaining for presertvation of white supermacy, they were Catholics who were imma rants and pro-laborers
Republican Voting Bloc
Many northern whites, some African amaericans, they supported anti immigrant laws
What dose Gilded age mean?
Covered in gold, the rise of big business which is an era following reconstruction
Andrew Carrnage owner of steel
used vertical integration, eliminated comp by buying the composer industry that support business
Cornelius & William vanderbilt (Railroads)
Began investing the the RR during the civil war they bought steal to increase effecency, they bribed the judges and representatives used STOCK WATERING(selling a product for more than its actual worth)
John D. Rockefeller (oil)
Used horizontal integration buying out the competitors and combining the large and small companies to form trust controlled by the SO.co
J.P. Morgan (Banking)
He interlocked Directorates and put his people on the executive boards of comopany
Captions of industry
They were industrialist who considered themselves as this phrase, created wealth and jobs and intrerased production but providing cheap goods
Robber barons
Workers POV,thought industrialist were “______” they pay cheap wages and hard word under band conditions, thought they were greedy, while bribing gov officials
How would you describe the role of big business owners during the guildfed age?
the role of control and dom to reach the top of the “food chain”
What was the goals of thr trans continental RR
Unity of the nation and urbanizing the west
Describe the events in CA contributed to the 1882 exclusion act…
There was too much compotion for labor in CA, this caused a domino effect of random musters and cut off hair (queue braids)
Describe why the gov. Was unable to successfully regulate monopolies
Many created loopholes in regulations to bypass the laws
Chinese Immigration to CA
By 1800 75,000 Asian imigrants had traveled to the United States to dig for gold and build railroads in CA
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Phrohibited all Chinese immigration until 1943, first legislation in us history to limit any one group based on their race
Ida B. Wells
Lost her job as a teacher for being outspoken and she led ani lynching crusade calling on the federal government to take action
