Civil War 1
Union
Blockade
Capture
Richmond
Mississippi
What is the "Anaconda Plan?"
Northerners who came to the south.
Poor whites who came to the south.
They brought all of their belongings.
They came for economic opportunities.
What are "Carpetbaggers?"
Goals
8 hours workday
Direct Election of Senators
Secret Ballot
Free and unlimited coinage of Silver
Political Party
Who is the "Populist Party?"
1780's Great Britain
Plenty of Resources
A large labor supply.
Steam Powered
Mass Production
Factory System
What is the "First Industrial Revolution
Workers wages were reduced
"Company Town"
Rents were not lowered
This achieved nothing.
What is the "Pullman Strike?"
1854
Choice
Free or Slave State
What is the "Kansas-Nebraska Act?'
Southern Whites
Supported reconstruction
Cooperated with the Union.
A negative term to Southerners.
What are "Scalawags?"
High Storage fees for crops.
High Shipping fees on railroads for crops.
Overproduction of crops causing lower crop prices.
High interest bank loans
What are the "Farmers Economic Problems?"
Creator
Standard Oil Company
Monopoly
Person
Who is "John Rockefeller?"
1886 Labor protest
Chicago
Violence
Unions were now associated with violence
What is the "Haymarket Riot?"
1857
African Americans are not citizens
African Americans could not sue
What is the "Dred Scott Decision?
Happened after Plessy v Ferguson.
The Ku Klux Klan committed many violent crimes against African Americans.
Lowest Point
What is "Nadir?"
Supreme Court declared these unconstitutional.
They were originally passed fixing maximum rates for freight shipments.
What are "Grange Laws?"
More mining of Steel
Railroad Industries
Telecommunication
Phone, Morse Code
Electricity
What is the "2nd Industrial Revolution?"
1892 Steel workers
Refusing to work
"Scab" labor
Violence
What is the "Homestead Strike?"
Lincoln
Issued
Slaves
Confederate States
Free
What is the "Emancipation Proclamation?"
Laws
Limited Civil Rights and Freedoms
Newly Freed Slaves
Passed by Southern States after the Civil War
What are "Black Codes?"
They encouraged Westward migration
They made it possible for farmers to ship their grain and cattle to urban market for sale.
They moved people and products.
What are "Railroads?"
1890 Law
Banned Monopolies and trusts in the USA
What is the "Sherman Anti-trust Act?"
Creator of the American Federation of Labor
Stable Union
Skilled Workers
A person
Who is "Samuel Gompers?"
1863
Union gained control of the Mississippi River
General Grant leads the Union armies.
What is the "Battle of Vicksburg?"
Former Slaves
Provided a cabin, a mule, tools and a plot of land.
In exchange for a large portion of the crops.
What is "Sharecropping?"
Populist Party wanted coinage of both "Gold and Silver."
Bimetallism
Famous Quote
What is "You shall not crucify mankind upon a Cross of Gold."
Manufacture of Steel Quickly
Blast hot air through melted iron
Remove impurities
What is the "Bessemer Process?"
This organization's goals
Higher pay, 8 hour workday
Better Conditions in the workplace
A "Closed Shop"
Must be Union members
What is the "American Federation of Labor?"