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A settler could move west and have up to 160 acres if he lived on it for 5 years and paid a $30 fee.
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Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau. The bureau was intended to be a kind of primitive welfare agency. To provide food, clothing, medical care, and education both to freedmen and to white refugees.
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Republicans passed the Civil Rights Bill, which conferred on blacks the priviledge of American citizenship and struck at the Black Codes.
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Congress passed the Reconstruction ACt
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passed by Congress and ratified by the required states in 1870.
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Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in Cleveland by using horizontal integration.
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Last feeble gasp of the congressional radical Republicans.
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Police went to break up a meeting and a bomb was thrown, killing several dozen
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Were admitted as states.
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Was admitted to the US
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No monopolies or pools of industries. No horizontal integration. Passed because of Rockefeller.
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Steelworkser were angry over pay cuts. They were armed with rifles and dynamite.
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Eugene Debs led the American Railway Union on a strike against cut wages. They stopped a lot of railroad traffic across the west. The US attorney general ordered troops to crush the strike. Eugene Debs was arrested, and later became socialist. But strikers could be jailed without jury trials.
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Legitimizes seperate but equal doctrine. Upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal.
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