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Restoration to Andrew Johnson meant restoring loyalty to the union and abolishing slavery.
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This amendment outlawed slavery.
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Declared African American's to be citizens of the U.S.
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Kept the president from firing any cabinet member.
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Forced the president to issue army orders through the army general.
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The purchase of Alaska by Seward even though it was covered in ice.
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Johnson fired a cabinet member and therefore broke the Tenure of Office Act but he wasn't convicted.
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Offered the first constitutional meaning for citizenship and gave citizenship to certain people that were born in the U.S.
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Forbade the states/governemtn to keep any citizen from voting.
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Designed to protect black voters but for the first two times the acts didn't work.
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American claims that Britain had violated the neutrality act by aiding the confederates during the Civil War.
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Some of Grant's administration had excepted a bribe so as to not investigate fraudulent contracts with the Credit Mobiler.
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A leading investment bank failed and the government issued more paper currency increasing the inflation of currency.
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Embraced the gold act and lessened the value of silver.
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Deemed after a certain date the greenback dollars would be redeemed for gold.
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Guarenteed African Americans equal treatment.
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Grant wasn't allowed to run again because of all the scandals that occured during his presidency.
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This compromise allowed Hayes to be president but also ended the Reconstruction era for the South and forced the troops stationed there to leave.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the 14th amendment only kept the government from discrimination.
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Favored machine politics.
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Favored civil service reforms.
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Stopped the immigration of Chinese to America.
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Government officials should be chosen by competitive exams instead of conections.
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Led to the interstate commerce act that only the federal government had control over.
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Strikers threw dynamite at cops and some were arrested and convicted for the act.
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Only allowed the federal government to control interstate commerce.
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Divided up indian tribe land.
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Raised duty on imports to almost 50%.
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Prohibited anticompetitve businesses and regulated monopolies.
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Stirke against a steel factory which eventually led to presidential and federal involvement.
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Started the Populist Party.
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Caused by the Collapse of railroads and led to a series of bank failures.
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Coxey and a group of strikers marched to Washington D.C but were arrested there.
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Pullman provided housing but did not reduce the cost of housing when lowering the wages of workers.
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Lowered United States tariff rates.
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Given by William Jennings Bryan, this speech moved many people away from the gold standard and gained the canadicy for president for Bryan.
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Raised tariff rates and counteracted the Wilson Gorman tariff act.
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Added Hawaii to the United States and allowed great trade for sugar to occur.
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War started because the Spanish were treating the spanish citizens of Cuba and other Spanish territories poorly and the U.S intervened. Somewhat easy victory for the U.S.
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Led to support for Open Door policy which was previously denied.
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Started the Spanish American War because the U.S thought that Spain had sunk the ship when actually there was probably just an engine failure.
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The U.S wanted to acess China but didn't want any specieal advantages.
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Some wanted to annex the Philipines while others believed it was immoral to annex the Philipines and that they should be able to govern themselves.
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The U.S finally decided they would be backed by the gold standard and not the silver standard.
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An anarchist who lost his job during the panic of 1893 assassinated McKingley.
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Roosevelt not only asked the Corporation their side of the story of the strike but also asked the workers side of the story and made negotiations.
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Provided federal funds for the construction of dams, reservoirs, and canals in the West.
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Amended the interstate commerce act and allowed heavy fines to be placed on railroads
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For his first term he was only concerned with reelection so he swayed his party and progressives as well.
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Tried to give the government the ability to regulate but was too cautious and did not satisfy progressivists.
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Attempted to stop the sale of dangerous or ineffective medicines.
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Many naturalists were concerned about building a dam in the Hetch Hetchy Valley but after the 1906 quake many citizens of San Francisco advocated the construction of the dam.
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Helped stop diseases from spreading within meat.
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Rosevelt was blamed for the panic and he aquired the aid of J.P. Morgan, the major steel industry owner, to escape the panic.
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Taft tried to appease the Progressivists but this tariff was largely ineffective and after creating this tariff many progressivists believed Taft was too passive.
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Pinchot accused Ballinger, with the help of Glavis, that he had turned over a public coal mine to a private owner for profit. When Taft declared the accusations to be groundless he also fired Glavis greatly angering Pinchot and others who supported Pinchot.
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Attempted to strengthen regulatory control of the governement over the railroads.
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Mainly this new nationalism involved the regulation of monopolies and corporations but alse of workers, child labor, and compensation for industrial accidents.
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Created a bureau to investigate the welfare of children.
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La Follette the Democratic ran aginst Taft but his candidacy stumbled and so Rosovelt ran against Taft at first as a Republican candidate. When the republicans chose Taft over him he created the Progressive party and ran for president under that party.
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Beleived contrary to Rosevelt, that monopolies needed to be destroyed not regulated.
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Created by Rosevelt after the Republicans would not renominate him for president.
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Income tax creating the ability for competition among corporations.
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Direct election of senators.
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Regulated the federal reserves and were appointed by the president.
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Lowered the basic tariff rate from 40% to 25%.
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Created a central banking system that could issue federal reserve notes or money.
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Helped buissinesses determine if their buissiness would be acceptable to the government.
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Federal grants for agricultural extension education.
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Wilson appointed Brandeis so that he would look good to the Progressivists for the re-election because many progressivists were turning back to Rosevelts progressive party.
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First federal law regulating child labor.
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Prohibition of alcholic beverages.
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Women gained the right to vote but not civil rights.