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HIS 162 Questions and answers latest update
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- HIS 162
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- Northern Virginia Community College
HIS 162 Questions and answers latest update
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HIS 162 Questions and answers latest update
Emancipation Proclamation ANS✔✔ Issued by abraham lincoln on January 1,
1863 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free.
Finished by the 13th amendment, March 1865 declares that slavery shall be
abolished.
Freedmen's Bureau ANS✔✔ 1865- Organization run by the army to care for
and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War.
Christian missionaries, schools, hospitals, settle disputes, secure equal
treatment before courts.
Sharecropping ANS✔✔ A system used on southern farms after the Civil War
in which black freedmen worked land owned by white southerners (usually
their former masters) in return for a small portion of the crops. Kept the
freemen dependent on their owner.
Segregation ANS✔✔ establishes a social hierarchy (ex. Plessy v. Ferguson)
Redemption ANS✔✔ Taking back the south- able to elect southern
democrats again.
Southerners start to worship what would have been if they won/ their lost
opportunity.
victimized their civil war involvement
Tried to say CW was not about slavery...it was.
Tried to say slaves were happy until the union came-FALSE
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Andrew Carnegie ANS✔✔ A Scottish-born American industrialist and
philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901,
his company dominated the American steel industry. Richest man in
America by 1900.
He created the inverted integration- owned everything top to bottom.
American Federation of Labor ANS✔✔ 1886; founded by Samuel Gompers;
sought better wages, hrs, working conditions; skilled laborers, arose out of
dissatisfaction with the Knights of Labor, rejected socialist and communist
ideas, non-violent. They were successful because they were more moderate
in their approach.
Homestead Strike ANS✔✔ June 30th, 1892- July 6th, 1892. Homestead PA.
Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steelworkers v. Carnegie Steel
management attempt to break union control
fighting breaks out July 6, 1892- becomes a massive riot
Gov. of PA sent 8,000 troops tp reopen the mill
In the gilded age, the government will always side with employers.
Great Railroad Strike ANS✔✔ July, 1877 - A large number of railroad workers
went on strike because of wage cuts. After a month of strikes, President
Hayes sent troops to stop the rioting. The worst railroad violence was in
Pittsburgh, with over 40 people killed by militia men.
Pullman Strike ANS✔✔ in Chicago, Pullman cut wages but refused to lower
rents in the "company town", Eugene Debs had American Railway Union
refuse to use Pullman cars, Debs thrown in jail after being sued, strike
achieved nothing
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