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Ulysses S. Grant
Grant was born on April 27,1822, in Pleasent Piont Ohio. Grant was a highly successful role in the awr as a general for the second half of the Civil War. Grant lead the Union Army to vitory of the defition of the Confederate Military, thus effectively ending the war and secession. Grant effectively destoyed the Ku Klux Klan in 1871. President Ulysses S. Grant died on July 23, 1885. The picture to the left is a picture of Ulysses S. Grant. -
Unions Formed
Union formed because unregulated capitalism left greedy owners treat workers like slaves or cattle not people. Working Conditions were dangoures, workers were fired over any friction, pay was low and businesses tried to keep pay from rising. They formed to try to make jobs better and more safer than they were before. Thed picture to the left is a picture of people making signs going on strike. -
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegi was one of the richest man in hte world. He was also the biggest busniess owner ever of steel. He was the first business owner to do the complete virtical intergration. He was born on November 25,1835 in South Carolina and died on August 11,1919 In Lenox. The picture to the left is a picture of Andrew Carnegie -
Carrie Nation
Carrie Natoin was born on November 25, 1846, in the state Garrard County Kansas. Carrie was known to carry around a hatchet and go into bars, and brake all the cups and brake the bottles filled with alcohol, to make people scared to go to bars so they wouldnt drink, she thought drinking was evil. Sh ealso thought that if men dont drink they wont be abusive. She died on June 9,1911. -
Moving to the great plaines
The goverment sncouraged people to settle to the great region. Native americans who already were present there, were forced into reservations to make room for the new settlers. Native americans were origainally pushed west of Mississippi river and was promised land forever. To get land in the Great plaines you had tpo be over 21dosnt matter about your race or gender, to be able to make the land better within 5 years, and have a 10 entry fee -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cederville Illinoise. She was a settlement worker, she was the founder of the Hull House, in Chicago. She was a leader in the women suffrage movment. Jane was the most promitnent reformer of theprogressive era, Jane was alos the first woment to win th Nobel Peace Prize. She Died on May 21,1935. -
Ida Wells-Burnett
Ida wells was born on July 16, 1862, She lived in HolleySprings Mississippi. Ida was born as a slave, She became a teacher and a Journalist aafter she was free.Ida lost her teaching job and her job on the newspaper, she disided to become a spokes man aginst discrimination. Also she conducted the first ever statistical study of lynching, toured widley and gave speeches attaking discrimination and violence. -
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
President Lincoln offered his plan to reunifi by the US with the Proclamation of amnisty and reconstrustion. BY this time it was clear to Lincoln that he needed to make so disisons postwar reconstruction. The south was ready to have ther goverment rebuilt. The proclamation stated three diffrent things. First it allowed a full pardon for and restoration of property. The second one, it allowed for a new state to be formed. The tired would be south states would let slaves be free and stay free. -
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Elizabeth jane Cochran a.k.a Nellie Bly, was born on May 5,1864 in Pennsylvania.She first started helping women when she relized women dont get anything in divorce. After that she worked for a newspaper and they asked her to go undercover and find out the secrets of a asylum, they did this because they didnt think she could do it. She di and she got herself immited and wrote a book exposing her times in the asylum t, this lead to the reforme of the asylum. She died on January 27,1922. -
Assasination of President Lincoln
The assassination of president Abraham Lincoln happend on April 14, 1865, on Good Friday, by a man named John Wilkes Booth.The assassination occured five days after the Confederate Army surrendered. LIncolns assassination was the first successful Assassination to occur. The reasoning behind Wilkes actions was he was trying to revive the Confederate causes. Lincoln died early the next morning. -
Freedmans Bureau
The freedman Bureau was established by congress somtime in September of 1865. This Bureau was directed to feeding and clothing of refugees in the south using surplus army supplies. It started in september and it issued about 30,000 thousand rations a day for the next year -
13th Amendment
On December 6,1865 the 13th amendment was passed. This law abolished slavery and in voluntary servitude. It also stated that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united states, or any place jubjected to their jurisdiction." -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This Act Protected "All persons in the united states in their Civil Rights and furnish the means of their vindictions," It declared people born in the united states and not subjected to any foreign power are entitles to be citizens, without regards to race, color, or previouse conditions of slavery or invoulantary service. This happend sometime in the year 1866. -
Reconstruction Act
The Reconstruction act was to provide for more efficient goverment of the rebel states. It was passed March 2, 1867. Fulfilmentof the requirements of the act were necessary for the former Confederate states to be reamited to the union. -
14th Amendment
The United States consitutution adopted the 14th amendment on July 9, 1868. The amendemnt had 3 clause, the first clause is, The Equal Protection Clause- Required each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people whithin its jurisdiction. Due Process Clause-prohibits stateand local goverment from depriving person of life liberty or property without certin steps being taken to ensure fairness. Citizenship Clause-provides a board defintion of citizenship. -
15 Amendment
On February 3, 1870 the 15th amendment was ratified. The United States consitution prohibits each goverment in the United States for dyning citizens the right to vote based solely on the citizens race, color, or previous conditions of servitude. The congress has the power to enforce this amendment by appropiate legislation. -
Civil Rights Act 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1875. This act protected all Americans,no matter of the race, in their access to public accommodations and facilities such as restaurants, theaters, trains and other public transportation, and protected the right to serve on juries. However, in the early 1880's the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1883 -
Compromise of 1877
On Febuary 26,1877 the compromise of 1877 started. The compromise was a promis by the republicans to pull federal troop out of the south. Only if Hayes was elected, and that is exactly what happend. Within a month of Hayes taking office, Grant started to pull toops out of Florida, he also planed to do this even if Hayes didnt take office. -
The Maine explosion
The Maine was destoryed on Febuary 15, 1898. NO one really knew who blewup the Maine. People thought that the spanished did it with a mine, but no one really had proff to know if they really did it or not. Nearly three-quarters of the Battleships crew died as a result of the Maine exploding. A lot of people blamed the spanishes because of articals newsreports and the newspapers all bllamed them form blowing it up. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The prue food and drug act was put into place so people know what they are eating or taking for a medical reason. The pure food act was put into place because of the book The Jungle, it uncovers how they store their meat and leave it on the ground letting rats and water drip on t and how they clean it with harmful chemicals. The Pure drug act was into place because people would get additcewd to drugs because they would put weed and stuff of that nature. -
Children Bureau
President William H. Taft signed legislation on April 8, 1912, This made the U.S. the first nation in the world to have a federal agency focused solely on children. The children bureau was to help children to make sure things that are needed to be put in place are.they raised the age to work, because of reasons like this in coal mines, adults couldnt squize through a hole so they would have children doing it leading to health problems, working to hard fo their age causing major medical problems. -
18th Amendement
The 18th amendment was put into place because they wanted to band the sell, manufacturing, and transport for alchol in the united states, they did this because they thought without alcjol then the violence would go down but it did the opposite. It was ritafied in 1919 and repealed by the 21st amendment in 1933. In over 200 years the 18th amendment remains to be the only amendment ever to eb repealed.
