History Midterm: Abridged key terms
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- Moderate Reconstruction
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-Black American civil equality
-No right to vote
-Repair Union as quickly and as painlessly as possible - Radical Reconstruction
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-Black Americans Right to vote
-Black Americans civil equality
-Punish the South
-51% plan - Plessy v. Ferguson
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-"Seperate but equal" did not violate 14th amendment.
-Justice John Marshal Harlan disagreed. - Sharecropping
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-Solution to shortage of labor
-Land rented to freedmen
-Give portion of crops to owners.
-Draught caused it to fail.
-Owners added charges to make freedmen fall into debt - Compromise of 1877
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-Samuel Tilden (Democrat)
-Hayes (Republican)
-20 Electoral votes in dispute
-Electoral commission
-7 Democrats, 7 Republicans. 1 independent replaced by 8th republican.
-Democrats agree: no protest if US troops not used to enforce reconstruction.
-Redeemers back in power, end of reconstruction - 14th ammendment
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-Gave freedmen the right to vote.
-Reduced the number of represetnatives a state coudl send to Congress in proportion to the number of state's male citizens denied the right to vote.
-Encouraged southern states to give freedmen the right to vote rather than lose representation in Congress. - Assimilation
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-Cultural absorbtion of one into another.
-"Kill the indian and save the man"
-Adopted by Government officials.
-Laws forcing indians to abandon traditional appearances
-Long hair cut
-Indian religious practices outlawed
-Indian schools
-English to be spoken only, proper clothes and american names. - Wounded Knee Massacre
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-Ghost Dance religion and Wovoka proclaimed white settlers would vanish, buffalo would return, and traditional Indian way sof life would revive.
-"Ghost Shirts" stopped bullets
-Big foot and Red Cloud caught up with by US troups.
-Confusion with rifles.
-300 Sioux killed - Battle of Little Bighorn
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-Following Battle of Rosebud
-2000 Indians fleeing agencies at Little Bighorn River.
-Crazy Horse fights off General George Armstrong Custer.
-"Custer's last stand" - Dawes Act
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-160 acres of free land to Native American Families
-Private land owners (non-nomadic lifestyle)
-Method of assimilation
-failed. - Alaska Purchase
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-Russia fears territorial dispute
-US Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated purchase fo r $7.2 Mil
-Klondike Gold Rush - Open Range
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-Government policy allowing cattle ranchers to use public land as free grazing land
-Crucial to the cattle boom.
-Ended by the invention of Barbed wire.