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Natural Resources, Capital, Labor, Technology, Consumers, Transportation, and Government Cooperation.
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American settlers in large numbers poured into the west. In 1788, American pioneers to the Northwest Territory established Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
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The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
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A Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people
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An American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history.
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The presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads.
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Between 1860 - 1915 rural population doubled, but urban pop grew 700%. By 1915, more than 1 in 3 people living in cities came from farms: why? Young, single women saw little futures on farms, many immigrants were black southern sharecroppers seeking a better life in northern industrial cities, and farms were becoming larger & more mechanized, which meant less human power was needed.
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Issue was slavery. Started in 1861, ended in 1865
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Lincoln - 10% plan.
Johnson
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A veto taking place when Congress adjourns within 10 days of submitting a bill to the president, who simply lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it
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1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had volunteered to fight for the Confederacy
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13th - Abolished slavery
14th - Citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws
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Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves
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Rebuilding after the Civil War. Rebuilding the trust, economy, infrastructure.
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The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900
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An informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election.
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Almost all old immigrants came from northern and western Europe. Examples are Great Britain, Germany, and Scandinavia.
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Coal mines (boys) and textile factories (girls & women). Women and children made up more than 50% of industrial workforce in 1880's. Workers no longer felt valued by their employers, but became interchangeable parts in the machine of industry.
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More than 1/3 cames from southern or eastern Europe, ex: Italy, Greece, and Slavic. Their different languages, religions, and customs set them apart from most "old immigrants". Contributed from a surplus of labor by mid-1880's, became targets of discrimination, fueled by renewed attitude of nativism among some "old immigrants."
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The 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.
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A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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A monopoly is characterized by a lack of competition, which can mean higher prices and inferior products.
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By 1890, the frontier was officially considered closed, free land was no longer available to settlers moving west, two waves of immigrants would come to settle America.
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A United States antitrust law passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, which regulates competition among enterprises.
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An 1896 court case that ruled in favor of segregation. "Separate but equal"
