Civil War
What was the battle of Appomattox?
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Where General Lee of the Confederacy surrenders to General Grant of the Union
What were Black Codes?
Black Codes was when southern legislatures passed laws. The laws were aimed to recreate a form of slavery. They limited the freedom of blacks.
Pacific Railroad Act. What was it?
Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad act. It provided for the construction of the transcontinental rail road.
What is Marxism?
The idea that the workers would revolt and that the worker should own their own companies, strongly hated an anarchy
What is Vertical and horizontal integration?
Horizontal integration: own all companies that produce a single product, trusts; Horizontal integration was combining all of the companies in the same business into one big company. Vertical integration: own all steps in production; Vertical integration is when a company buys there own things so they didn’t have to pay for the items they are selling.
What was attrition?
To play a defensive war.
Johnson Impeachment: Was he impeached? Was he removed from office? In both cases, why?
He was impeached because the congress had just passed a new law that said that the president could not fire anyone in the government without the Senate’s approval. Johnson immediately fired the secretary of war because they had a military disagreement. Was impeached because congress thought he was deliberately trying to violate the Tenure of Office Act. Not removed from office.
The Union Pacific. What was it? who cares
Director of engineering was Grenville Dodge. Former Union General. The Union Pacific started pushing westward. From Omaha Nebraska in 1865.
What are Trade unions and industrial unions.
Trade Unions was what craft workers were starting to from in the 1830s. They had people that were not replaceable because they required certain training and certain skills.
What were Trusts and holding companies? ahahahahhaahahahahahahaha........Hi
Trust; a new way of merging businesses that did not violate such laws. It is a legal arrangement that allows one person to manage another person’s property. Holding Companies. Many companies immediately used the law to create a new organization, the holding company. A holding company does not produce anything itself.
What states were in the confederacy? booooooooo confederates
Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia.
Freedman’s Bureau: You should be able to explain its main goals and actions. FEEEEEERT
Freedman’s Bureau was to give food and clothing to war refugees in the South. Johnson vetoes, but it got override.
The Central Pacific. What is it? Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
It had been a dream of the engineer Theodore Judah. Sold stock mostly to four people; Leland Stanford. Shop owner Charley Crocker. And Hardware store owners Mark Hopkins and Collis P. Huntington. Went east from Sacramento. (it was you whole stole the cookie!)
What was the Haymarket 1886?
Knights led a march of 70,000 people for supporters of a 8 hour work day. March 3rd police interfered to stop a fight. Turned violent, police fired at strikers. The strikers responded the next day with people gathering for speeches. Police came. Someone threw a bomb, no one knew who it was. This causes the Knights of Labor to lose a lot of support. They become known as a violent group .
What is a Monopoly?
When a single company achieves control of an entire market, it becomes a monopoly
What was the Kansas/Nebraska Act? DOOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOG
They would both become states and the people would get to decide if they would have slavery. This happened because there were debates in congress on what type of state they should be.
Military Reconstruction Act: What was it? Why did it happen? What were the reactions to it in the South?
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The act divided the south into five military districts and put officers in charge of making sure states rewrote their constitutions. This Act was created to punish the Radical Republicans for their Actions during the Civil War.
How did the railroads change the country?
The transcontinental railroad was the first on many lines that began crisscrossing the nation. Railroads increased the markets for many products. Spending huge money on steel, coal, timber, and other material stimulated the economy.
Pullman strike?
Leader Eugene V. Debs organized the American Railroad Union. Most were employees of Pullman Palace Car Company. Owned by George Pullman. Strike started May 11th, 1894. Federal court called it an injunction. That was a formal court order directing the union to stop the boycott.
What was a Consolidating industry?
To stop prices from falling companies organized pools. Agreements to keep prices at a certain level. They failed. Most of the time one of the companies would undercut the other for profit. Competition reduced the industries into the larger corporation.
What was the compromise of 1850? 2300000000.8 IS YOUR IQ IF YOU GET THIS
a. No more slave trade in D.C. California entered as a free state.
b. In addition, a territorial government was created in Utah.
c. Popular sovereignty in all new territory from Mexico.
d. Fugitive Slave Act
e. This was because of debates from Stephen Douglas and Henry Clay
Who were the Radical Republicans? Why did they care about the 14th amendment?
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Radical Republicans were Johnsons biggest opponents in congress. They wanted to punish the South for the civil war. They supported equal rights for freed men. They cared about the 14th amendment because they believed every man should have the right to become a citizen. They opposed Lincolns plan because they thought it was too lenient to the South. They were afraid the civil rights act of 1866 would be overruled or ignored.
Homestead Act: know detail. lil boiiiiii
For a $10 registration fee, an individual could file for a homestead. Homestead- a tract of public land available for settlement. A homesteader could claim up to 160 acres of land and could receive title to that land after living there for five years.
Roebling family. What did they do?
John Augustus Roebling thought that too. He was a German Immigrant. He twisted thin steel wires together and made a strong steel cable. Opened up new ways to build things. He said a bridge could be suspended, hung. He designed the first suspended bridge. Also designed suspension bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan
What did Thomas Edison do? this is too long, skip if u want
Thomas Alva Edison was the leading pioneer in new technology. He first got fame in 1877 with the invention of the phonograph. He expected to create the lightbulb in 6 weeks. It took him more than a year. Edison company began to transform American society in 1882. In 1889 the Edison companies grew and today known as the GE. Or the Edison General Electric Company