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Progressives : Test
Wanted better working conditions,better wages,shorter hours -
Reform : test
a change for the better -
Natural resources became goods
Coal, Iron, and timber were goods. -
Industry Exploited Workers
Many women and children worked in factorys. Workers felt unvalude by there employers. -
Government Corporations
The government created taxes on forgien goods and shippping goods to forgein countrys so buissness would sell in america -
Americas Industrial Growth
7 main factors 1.closing the frontier 2. urbanization 3. old immigrants 4. new immigrants 5. exploited workers -
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Manifest Destiny
Americans believe it was there god given right to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and Mexico. -
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Transcontinental Railroad
The federal government gave railroad companies 170 million acres of federal land to build a railroad system into the west.
The central Pacific moved eastwards from Sacramento.
The union pacific moved westwards from Omaha, Nebraska. -
Urbanization
Most Americans from farms migrated from to cities. -
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Civil War
War Over Slavery -
Reconstruction Plans
Lincolns plan - 10% plan
johnsons plan - pardoned condederates
radical republicans plan - equallity -
Pocket Veto
Indirect veto of a legislative bill by president of governer by not signing the bill within time. -
Wade Davis Bill
Required 50% of states white males to take a loyalty of oath.
States must give blacks rights to vote. -
3 Reconstruction Amendments
13th amendment - no slavery
14th amendment - equal protection of laws
15th amendment - right to vote -
Black Codes
Laws passed after civil war trying to restrict blacks freedom by compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages and debt -
Freedmen's Bureau
Etablished by congress to help poor whites and former slaves -
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Reconstruction
The Rebuilding of the south after the Civil War -
Civil Rights Bill
Dosesnt allow descrimination based on race,color,sex,religion -
Reconstruction Act Of 1867
Read admitted southern states into the union -
Motivations To Settle West
People moved west in hopes to strike gold in California during the 1849 gold rush.
People also moved west in hope to get land and start a new future. -
The Compromise Of 1877
Unwritten deal that pulled the rest of the troops out of the south -
What immigrated workers faced
Immigrated workers faced low pay, long hours, and poor and unsafe working conditions. New immigrants came in 2 waves, 1 wave(old immigrants) before the 1880s they came from northern and western Europe. Wave 2(new immigrants) came after the 1880s and came from southern and eastern Europe. -
Technology
Technology made better goods. And faster comunication. -
Closing of the Frontier
By 1890 the frontier was closed. Many immigrants came to America. They came in 2 large waves. -
Plessy V.S. Ferguson
Alowed for the segragation of races but public facilitys must be equall -
Jim Crow Laws
Local laws that allowed the segrigation of races in the south -
Favorite Time/Event In History
WW2 -
Birth Date
My Birthday -
1st Major Event
When I Shot My First Buck
