Apush Test 6-7

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