Important Dates In My Life

  • Judicial Branch
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    Judicial Branch

    Interprets constitution, supreme court
  • Sharecroppers
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    Sharecroppers

    Farmers who kept small portion of crops and gave the rest to landowners.
  • Radical republicans
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    Radical republicans

    Radical Republicans had believed that be granted citizenship, including the right to vote.
  • Industrial Growth
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    Industrial Growth

    wealth was concentrated in hands of few industrialist
  • Sherman anti trust act
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    Sherman anti trust act

    This act was made to promote fair industrial compition. To end monopolies.
  • Lassiez-faire
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    Lassiez-faire

    govt. made no polocies to regulate buisness principles
  • Populist
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    Populist

    In midwest, money backed by silver, farmers, 3rd party pres canidate
  • Spoils system
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    Spoils system

    The spoils system was office holders reward supporters with federal jobs.
  • Booker T Washington
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    Booker T Washington

    African American leader who was most supported by the government, tried to seek economic slef improvement before guns
  • NAACP
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    NAACP

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization. Founder of it was W.E.B DuBois
  • Executive Branch
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    Executive Branch

    Inforces laws
  • Legislative Branch
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    Legislative Branch

    The branch of government that makes the laws
  • Andrew Johnson
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    Andrew Johnson

    He was the 17th president of the United States. He had also vetoed both the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights Act of 1866.
  • Freedmon Bureau established by Congress, except
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    Freedmon Bureau established by Congress, except

    The Freedom Bureau established Congress. It was very against returning all slaves to their rightful plantation owners.
  • Amendments
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    Amendments

    13th-abolished slavery
    14th-equal rights for citizens
    15th-universal male suffrage
    16th-graduated income tax
    17th-direct election of senators
    18th-prohibitition
    19th-womens sufferage
  • Three Branches of government
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    Three Branches of government

    Executive, Legislative, Judical. They are needed to make sure that not one thing has all the power but divided up
  • Ethnic group
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    Ethnic group

    Group was in the Gilded Age. African Americans, who shared a common cultural background.
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act
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    Pendleton Civil Service Act

    This act had ended hiring practices based on the spoils system
  • Theodore Rosevelt
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    Theodore Rosevelt

    He was called the great conservationist. He made the square deal, as well as switched to 3rd party bull moose candidate.
  • Presidents by office
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    Presidents by office

    First was Theodore Rosevelt, William Taft, and then lastly, Woodrow Wilson.
  • Woodrow Wilson
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    Woodrow Wilson

    saw the creation of the federal reserve system, federal trade commison, and passage of 18th, 19th admen.
  • Ending of progressive Era
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    Ending of progressive Era

    United States started getting involved with World war one.
  • William Taft
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    William Taft

    President after Theodore Rosevelt, conservative.
  • Imperialism
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    Imperialism

    Imperialism was what was referred to as taking over other countries.
    So it was a policy of extending a country's power and influence through military force.
  • Supreme Court
    1000

    Supreme Court

    The Supreme Court is made up of nine justices, it is the highest court in the land.
  • Industrial Age

    Industrial Age

    period of history that was when the changes in the economic and social organization in Great Britain and later in other countries. Making of new machines to help. The transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840
  • Motivation to Settle the West

    Motivation to Settle the West

    Pioneer settlers were sometimes pulled west because they wanted to make a better living. Also opportunity to buy land.
  • 7 Factors of America's Industrial Growth

    7 Factors of America's Industrial Growth

    Labor, Capital, Natural Resources, Land, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Westward Expansion, Immigration, Communication.
  • Exploited Workers

    Exploited Workers

    Forced appropriation of the unpaid labor of workers.
  • Lewis and Clark

    Lewis and Clark

    The first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    A Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist
  • John D. Rockefeller

    John D. Rockefeller

    was an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist.
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny

    19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  • Urbanization

    Urbanization

    the process of making an area more urban. migration from farms to cities.
  • Period: to

    Civil War

    Slavery
  • 3 Reconstruction Plans

    3 Reconstruction Plans

    Lincoln, Johnson, and Radical Republic. Lincion's being the 10% plan, it was simple.
  • Pocket Veto

    Pocket Veto

    Veto of a legislative blll by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session.
  • Wade-Davis Bill

    Wade-Davis Bill

    Required that 50 percent of states white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the union.
  • Grandfather Clause

    Grandfather Clause

    A clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation.
  • Black Codes

    Black Codes

    Laws passed by Southern states after the American Civil War.
    Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War.
  • 3 Reconstruction Admendments

    3 Reconstruction Admendments

    13th,14th, 15th
  • Freedmen's Bureau

    Freedmen's Bureau

    Lands established by Congress to help milions of former balck slaves and poor whites in the South.
  • Period: to

    Reconstruction

    Rebuilding of the South Economy, infasructure, relationships, reunite
  • Civil Rights Bill

    Civil Rights Bill

    Landmark civil rights and US labor law in the US that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national orgin.
  • The Reconstruction Act

    The Reconstruction Act

    Laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad

    The First Transcontinental Railroad.
  • Gilded Age

    Gilded Age

    population and economy grew quickly then, and there was a lot of political corruption
  • Monoploly

    Monoploly

    Control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction.
  • Compromise of 1877

    Compromise of 1877

    An informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. Signaled the end of reconstruction.
  • Old Immigrants

    Old Immigrants

    The forced appropiatiion of the unpaid labor of workers
  • New Immigrants

    New Immigrants

    Lat 1880s that came from the influx of Catholic and Jewish immigrants from Italy and Russia
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Community that worked at minimum wage, wanted higher pay
  • Civil Service Act

    Civil Service Act

    Law which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
  • Closing of the Frontier

    Closing of the Frontier

    A year after the Oklahoma Land Rush, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the frontier was closed.
  • Illinois Factory Act

    made it so that there was no longer child labor in america
  • Illinois Factory Act

    Illinois Factory Act

    This was the act that had prohibited child labor in the United States.
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Plessy vs Ferguson

    Landmark decison that Supreme court issued to uphold the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality
  • Muckrakers

    Muckrakers

    They were used in the Progressive Era. American journalists who attacked and outed institutions and leaders as corrupt and showed their wrongs. Investigative journalists view the muckrakers as early influences and a continuation of watchdog journalism.
  • The book The Jungle

    The Jungle is a novel written in 1904 by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair.
  • Northern Europeans came to the US

  • World War 1

    World War 1

    World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe. It all became a local conflict because of an aliance system. Franz Ferdinand sparked the start of it.
  • Assassination of Frans Ferdinand of Austria Hungary

    Assassination of Frans Ferdinand of Austria Hungary

    heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip.
  • Central Powers

    Central Powers

    World War One is a conflict between the Central Powers and the Allies. The Central Powers (red) consist of Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. Important allied powers (yellow) are Serbia, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium and the United States.
  • New Weapons

    New Weapons

    Tanks, machine guns, gas
  • Submarine Warfare

    Submarine Warfare

    Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink vessels such as freighters and tankers without warning,
  • Sinking of Lusitania

    Sinking of Lusitania

    Sussex- upboats.
    First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank.
  • World War 2

    World War 2

    World War 2 was my favorite historical event to learn about.
  • Allied Powers

    Allied Powers

    In World War II the chief Allied powers were Great Britain, France (except during the German occupation, 1940–44), the Soviet Union (after its entry in June 1941), the United States (after its entry on December 8, 1941), and China.
  • Eastern Front

    Eastern Front

    The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union
  • My Birthday

    My Birthday

    My Birthday
  • My Favorite Teacher

    My Favorite Teacher

    My favorite teacher ever.