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U.S. Presidents and their election years (Lincoln to TR)
The Civil War
Minorities, Immigration, and Native Americans
Expansion, Industry, and Labor in the late 19th Cntry
The Gilded Age
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He was not as good at being president as being an Army General, but beloved by Americans. During his presidency the U.S. bought Alaska, and kept Maximillan out of Mexico. I Genuinely cared about the rights of the recently freed slaves, but the nations focus shifted during a severe economic depression in 1873 and that is what I spent the duration of my presidency working on. I served two terms. (1869 - 1872)(1873-1877)
Who was Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869-1872) (1873 - 1877)
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This reconstruction plan offered pardon, with certain exceptions (officers, high ranking leaders of the Confederates), to any Confederate who would swear to support the Constitution and the Union. Once a group in any conquered state equal in number to one tenth of that state's total vote in the presidential election of 1860 took the prescribed oath and organized a government that abolished slavery, he would grant that government executive recognition.
What is Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
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Addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. The Due Process Clause of this law prohibits state and local government officials from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without legislative authorization. The Equal Protection Clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction. Because former confederate states refused to ratify this law, the Reconstruction Acts were passed, replacing those state governments with military governments, and adding ratification of this law to the requirements for those state's readmission into the Union. The law was eventually ratified in July of 1868
What is the Fourteenth Amendment!
100
Promised 160 acres of land for free to any citizen male or female who settled the land for five years. Transcontinental railroads opened and worked along with this act to settle the west.
What is the Homestead Act
100
a theatrical genre of variety entertainment popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Called "the heart of American show business," it was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades. It incorporated various itinerant amusements into a stable, institutionalized form centered in America's growing urban hubs as a form of intertwinement for working-class Americans that eventually made its way into popular American culture of the upper classes.
What is Vaudeville
200
In 1883 the mugwumps of the Republican party embraced this Democratic presidential nominee. His motto was "a public office is a public trust." He was the mayor of Buffalo and the Governor of New York. He was the first Democratic President to be elected in 24 years. He served two terms, but they weren't consecutive; the first was 1885 - 1889, but lost reelection to Benjamin Harrison, because of our differing views on high tariffs in the wake of the panic of '73. I won reelection the following term, and served as president from 1893 - 1897.
Who is Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)(1893-1897)
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This Reconstruction plan favored speedy reparation of the Union. It promised to pardon most, but not all ex-confederates. All that Citizens of a rebel state had to do was renounce the right of secession, deny that the debts of the confederacy were legal and binding, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery. The eagerness of this plan led to the return of all confiscated land to ex-confederates, in some cases taking it away from freed slaves, undermining the work of the freedmen’s bureau. Despite the tough talk about punishing Confederates this plan received much criticism for how lax it treated ex confederates in the end.
What is Johnson's Reconstruction plan
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Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It extended the black suffrage rights required in the Southern states by this law's numerical predecessor to the rest of the Nation. It was ratified in July of 1870.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment!
200
a fraternal organization in the United States which encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture. Founded after the Civil War in 1867, it is the oldest American agricultural advocacy group with a national scope. Major accomplishments of this group include the establishment of rural free mail delivery and the passage of laws named after the group that made pricing of railroad rates more favorable to small rural farmers.
What is the Grange or The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
200
A term that comes from a character of Pilgrim's Progress, Teddy Roosevelt warned against these kinds of journalists who were only interested in stirring up a scandal to sell more papers. T.R. did not consider real investigative journalists like Jacob Riis to be one of these, and used their influence to wield popular public opinion in his favor. In contemporary use, the term describes either a journalist who writes in the adversarial or alternative tradition, or a non-journalist whose purpose in publication is to advocate reform and change.
What are "muckrakers" or Muckraking
300
1889-1893; President between Grover Cleveland's nonconsecutive terms. Much of my presidency's policies were related to tariffs.
Who is Benjamin Harrison
300
It would simply restore to power the old planter aristocracy after the Civil War. In July, 1864 the Wade-Davis Bill became a part of this plan, which required 50% of a state's male voters to take an "ironclad" oath that they had never voluntarily supported the Confederacy. The bill never became law however, which caused much controversy among the different branches of Government in DC.
What is the Congressional Reconstruction Plan
300
passed in 1887, this law was responsible for dividing up reservations and allotting parcels of land to individual indians as private property.
What is the Dawes Allotment and Severalty Act
300
the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. Its most important leader was Terence V. Powderly. It promoted the social and cultural uplifting of the workingman, rejected Socialism and radicalism, demanded the eight-hour day, and promoted the producers ethic of republicanism. In some cases it acted as a labor union, negotiating with employers, but it was never well organized, and after a rapid expansion in the mid-1880s, it suddenly lost its new members and became a small operation again. Established in 1869, it existed until 1949.
What is the Knights of Labor
300
This election brought along with it the respective slogans for Roosevelt and Taft: "The New Nationalism" (R's federal planning and regulation and the govt being the "steward of the people"), and "The New Freedom" (T's antitrust legislation to stop big businesses from harming small business). Touted as the Progressive Insurgency, voters in this election had their choice of 4 popular progressive candidates: Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Eugene V. Debbs.
What is the Election of 1912
400
1897 - 1901; He defeated William Jennings Bryan twice, and he is considered the first Progressive Era President. His Vice President was Teddy Roosevelt. He was assassinated nine months into his second term, in Buffalo, New York on September 14th 1901.
Who is William McKinley
400
Dec. 8, 1863; a decree for those areas of the Confederacy occupied by Union armies. It offered pardon, with certain exceptions, to any Confederate who would swear to support the Constitution and the Union. Once a group in any conquered state equal in number to one tenth of that state's total vote in the presidential election of 1860 took the prescribed oath and organized a government that abolished slavery, he would grant that government executive recognition.
What is the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
400
In the wake of an economic depression in the 1870s, minorities served as easy scapegoats for the lack of available work. Backed by the Workingmen's Party in 1876, this law effectively barred a certain class of people from immigrating to the United States. The first time in US history that a group of people was banned from immigration on the basis of race, the act was renewed in 1892 for another ten years, and in 1902 immigration of this race was made permanently illegal, until the act was repealed in 1943.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
400
English-born American cigar maker who became a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. He founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924. He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL, trying to minimize jurisdictional battles. He promoted "thorough" organization and collective bargaining to secure shorter hours and higher wages, the first essential steps, he believed, to emancipating labor. He also encouraged the AFL to take political action to "elect their friends" and "defeat their enemies".
Who is Samuel Gompers
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This amendment from 1917 banned the sale of liquor in the US (oh no!) it was widely backed by the Women's Christian Temperance Union which felt that immigrants were more prone to alcoholism. The fiction they created greatly centered on Irish and German immigrants' partaking of alcohol and being drunk.
What is the 18th Amendment (replaced by 21st Amendment, hurray beer!)
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He served nearly 8 years as POTUS, but only one elected term. He was the first president to invite an African American to an official White House dinner. Known as the "trustbuster" I used the Sherman Act to break up 43 "bad" trusts, including big companies such as American Tobacco and Standard Oil. His campaign slogan was "Square Deal" and some of his major policies include The Hepburn Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, my Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, making the United States the policeman of the Western Hemisphere and sending the message to foreign countries to keep out. He is probably most remembered by the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick." which described his foreign policy philosophy which relied on good diplomatic relationships and a big military.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt (1901 - 1905)(1905-1909)
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abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was ratified with enough votes by Georgia and N.C. in December 1865
What is the Thirteenth Amendment
500
It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars, between the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside and Colonel James W. Forsyth and Spotted Elk's band of Lakota warriors. Often referred to as a massacre rather than a battle, it took place on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota on December 29, 1890.
What is The Battle at Wounded Knee
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The first federal law to regulate private industry in the United States, this Act was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The act was passed in response to rising public concern with the growing power and wealth of corporations, particularly railroads, during the late nineteenth century. It required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates.
What is The Interstate Commerce Act (which created the ICC)
500
This amendment provided women's suffrage in the united states, and was backed by Carrie Chapman Catt, leader of the NAWSA.
What is the 19th Amendment!! Weeeee!!