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Pocket Veto
An indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session. -
7 Factors of American Industrial Growth
Labor- used to make goods
Capital- Neede to pay for the production of goods
Natural Resources- become goods
Technology- better ways to make more and better goods
Consumers- bought and used goods and services
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Old Immigrants
The United States old immigrants came from northern and western Europe immigration came prior to 1880 -
Manifest Destiny
Widely held belief in the united states that its settlers were destined to expand across North America. -
Andrew Carnegie
Self-made steel tycoon and philanthropist whose donations expanded the New York Public Library system. -
John D. Rockefeller
American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist. -
Motivation to Settle West
Mining towns were filthy and included fortune seekers -
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Civil Rights Movement
A struggle for social justice, for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. -
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Transcontinental Railroad
The federal government offered 170 million acres in a land grant to railroads. Went from Sacramento, California to Ohama, Nebraska -
Urbanization
Migration from farms to cities -
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Civil War
Issue- slavery -
Andrew Johnson's plan
Offered general amnesty to all who would take an oath of future loyalty. -
Radical Republicans Plan
Supported federal civil rights for Freedmen, which Johnson opposed. -
Lincolns 10% plan
Specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. -
Wade-Davis Bill
Congress response to Lincoln's plan
Required a state constitutional convention -
Thirteenth Amendment for Reconstruction
Prohibition of slavery -
Freedmen's bureau
Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education. -
Black codes
Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt -
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Reconstruction
United states rebuilding the souths homes buissnesses and the economy -
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Reconstruction Amendments
13- Prohibition of slavery
14-equal protection
15- cannot deny right to vote based on race -
Civil Rights Act
declared that all people born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition. -
Reconstruction amendment of 1867
Laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. -
Fourteenth Amendment of Reconstruction
Equal Protection -
Fifteenth Amendment of Reconstruction
cannot deny right to vote based on race. -
Gilded Age
United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to 1900. -
Monopoly
America was making the major transformation over to industry with their economy growing over 400%. -
Compromise of 1877
An informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. -
Exploited Workers
coal mines and factories. women made up more than 50% of industrial workforce -
New Immigrants
hard to fit in had different languages came from southern and eastern Europe came after 1880 -
Civil Rights Cases of 1883
Had prohibited racial discrimination in hotels, trains, and other public places, was unconstitutional. -
Civil Service Act
United States federal law established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Closing of The Frontier
free land no longer availible -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. -
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Progressive Movement
Formed by Midwestern Farmers, Socialists, and Labor Organizers -attacked monopolies, and wanted other reforms, such as bimetallism, transportation regulation, the 8-hour work day, and income tax -
Woodrow Wilson
28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage reluctantly, Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations but failed to win U.S. ratification, won Nobel Peace Prize -
Federal Trade Commission
A government agency established in 1914 to prevent unfair business practices and help maintain a competitive economy, support antitrust suits -
World War 2
It was a very tragic event, and killed a lot of people that didn't deserve to die then and it has made us the country that we are now -
Birthday
It was the day i was born it was a nice day for my parents -
I had a Rock Thrown at my Head
I was 4 years old, I was playing football with a rock with my little friend that lived next door, and he throws the rock at my head and I had to get stitches.
