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Am.Rep. 18-23

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Which side was mostly untouched by the destructive forces of the Civil War? the North
Which side's money lost its value? Confederate money
Who were Freedmen? black former slaves who were freed from slavery
Who were carpetbaggers? a northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of Reconstruction.
Who were scalawags? a southerner who "agreed" with the reconstruction and also used it to take bribes from those they were supposed to serve
Who was "Rutherfraud"? the nickname of President Hayes because of the nature of the election of Hayes over Tilden
Who was Ulysses S. Grant a "good general" for the North, but not a "good president"
Presidential Reconstruction When 10% of the registered voters had taken an oath of loyalty to the US Constitution, the state could hold elections, send senators and congressmen to the US Capital and re-join
Congressional Reconstruction also called Radical Reconstruction - Under this plan, the South was punished for starting the war. It was divided into military districts.
Republican Party All of the Presidents elected from 1860-1900, except for one, were from this party.
The New South the growth of industries like textile mills, steel mills and railroads in southern cities
The Plantation System Mill towns, with company owned "shotgun" houses rented to the mill workers resembled this old system
Ku Klux Klan secret organization founded Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1866 to intimidate blacks into not voting, running for office or exercising their civil rights
sharecroppers former slaves rented the land from their former masters and then paid their rent by giving the master a significant portion of their crops
Bourbon Reconstruction the attitude of apathy towards the south that replaced the attitude of punishment for the south
John D. Rockefeller He organized the petroleum (oil) industry by founding the Standard Oil Company.
Grover Cleveland He was the only Democrat to serve as President from 1860-1912.
Alexander Graham Bell He invented the telephone.
Cornelius Vanderbilt He forced small railroad companies to combine which resulted in all the railroads using the Standard Gauge tracks.
Thomas Edison He invented lots of uses for electricity.
railheads cattle that the ranchers sold to the meat packers for a big profit
Who won the Battle of Little Big Horn? the Indians
What was the US slogan during the Spanish American War? Remember the Maine
Who developed the Bessemer Process? Andrew Carnegie
Who was the president during World War I? Woodrow Wilson
What was the US Navy called during its 1907 world tour? The Great White Fleet
Who wrote Origin of the Species Charles Darwin
Who sent the US Navy on a world wide tour in 1907. His motto was "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Theodore Roosevelt
What was the Panama Canal? a transportation route for ships to pass from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What event is the reason that World War I started? The assassination of the Archduke Frances Ferdinand
Who were the Central Powers in World War I? Germany, Turkey (Ottoman Turkish empire), and Austria-Hungary
Who were the Allied Powers in World War I? France, Great Britain, Russia
What factors led to the US joining World War I? The Zimmerman note and the sinking of the Lusitania
What is a U-boat? the German word for submarine
What is a Zeppelin? the German word for rigid, lighter-than-air "balloon" aircraft
What does "going over the top" in trench warfare mean? massed infantry attack where soldiers had to leave the trench and charge across the no-man's land
What was an "ace"? an aviator that shot down at least 5 of the enemy aircraft
What are some of the "new" kinds of warfare/weapons used during World War I? look up....
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