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APUSH Chapters 20-24

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Abraham Lincoln   16th president. Elected in 1860.  
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Secession   Leaving the Union. The first states to secede were SC, MS, FL, GA, LA, and TX, because of Lincoln's election.  
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Confederate States of America   The country that the states that seceded formed.  
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Jefferson Davis   President of the CSA  
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Richmond   Capitol of the CSA  
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Draft Riots   Riots against the draft in the Union  
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King Cotton   The phrase used to describe the U.S.'s dependency on cotton. It was the #1 cash crop at the time.  
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Border States   Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Slavery was not abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation in these states.  
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Andrew Johnson   Lincoln's VP, became president when Lincoln was assassinated. Called "Mr. Veto"  
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John Wilkes Booth   Lincoln's assassin  
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Robert E. Lee   Confederate Commander. Both sides wanted him, but he felt obligated to stick with his home state.  
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson   Confederate general under Lee. Died at Chancellorsville.  
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Ulysses S. Grant   Became a colonel in the Union volunteer army. He ended up getting Lee's surrender.  
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William T. Sherman   Union General. His men destroyed everything in their path.  
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Fort Sumter   The first battle of the Civil War. Off the coast of SC. Confederate victory  
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C.S.S Virginia/ Monitor   First "ironclads." Fought off the coast of Virginia- draw.  
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Emancipation Proclamation   Officially made the Civil War about slavery, not just reuniting the states. It freed all slaves, but only actually in the rebelling states.  
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First Battle of Bull Run   Virginia. Confederate victory. Northern troops fled back to D.C.  
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Battle of Antietam   As Lee moved into Maryland, he met McClellan's forces again at this battle. McClellan managed to halt Lee's forces after he discovered Lee's battle plans. Although not a victory, the Union stopped the Confederate march northward.  
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Battle of Gettysburg   As Lee moved his Confederate force to the north, he was met by Meade's force at Gettysburg. Union victory.  
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Battle of Vicksburg   General Grant was given command of the Union forces attacking Vicksburg. Union victory.  
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Gettysburg Address   Lincoln's speech dedicating a Gettysburg cemetery. "Of the people, by the people, and for the people."  
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Lincoln's Second Inaugural address   Sets the tone of forgiveness.  
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Lincoln's Assassination   Shot in the back of the head by Booth at a play. Died the next day at a house across the street.  
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The Co-conspirators   Some of Booth's friends were also going to kill Johnson and the secretary of state that night. Neither succeeded.  
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The Radical Republicans   Republicans in the House and Senate who believed the South should be punished, not welcomed. Wade, Davis, Sumner, and Stevens were the leaders.  
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Exodusters   Former slaves that went west and started anew in Kansas.  
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10% Plan   A state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of its voters in the presidential election of 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the United States and pledged to abide by emancipation.  
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Wade- Davis Bill   50% of a state's voters take the oath of allegiance and it demanded stronger safeguards for emancipation.  
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Black Codes   A series of laws designed to regulate the affairs of the emancipated slaves.  
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Sharecropping   Plantation owners rented out pieces of their land to blacks and made the cost of rent higher than the return the land produced. The renters of the land were bound by contract to continue to work the land until debts were repaid to the plantation owner.  
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13th/14th/15th Amendments   Civil Rights amendments. Gave African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote.  
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Scalawags   Southerners who were accused of plundering the treasuries of the Southern states through their political influence in the radical governments.  
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Carpetbaggers   Sleazy Northerners who had come to the South to seek power and profit.  
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Ku Klux Klan   A group of disgruntled white Southerners who tracked down blacks and lynched them.  
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Tenure of Office Act   The act passed by congress to prevent Johnson from firing any of the cabinet. This was mainly to keep Stanton in his job.  
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Seward's Folly   Seward signed a treaty with Russia that gave Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million.  
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Ulysses Grant (as P.O.T.U.S.)   Elected president in 1868  
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Boss Tweed   He employed bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections to milk New York of as much as $200 million.He was eventually put intro prison.  
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Thomas Nast   A cartoonist who primarily did political cartoons. He did several on Tweed and ended up revealing him.  
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Rutherford Hayes   Became president in 1876. His opponent, Tilden, won the popular vote and nearly the electoral college, but Congress chose Hayes.  
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James Garfield   Won the election of 1880, but was assassinated soon after. His VP was Arthur Chester.  
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William Jennings Bryan   A populist candidate in the election of 1896  
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John D. Rockefeller   Organized the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1870, attempting to eliminate the middlemen and knock out his competitors. By 1877, he controlled 95% of all the oil refineries in the nation.  
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Andrew Carnegie   Not a monopolist and actually disliked monopolistic trusts. He entered the steel business in the Pittsburgh area and created an organization with about 40 "Pittsburg millionaires." By 1900, he was producing 1/4 of the nation's Bessemer steel.  
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J.P. Morgan   Financed the reorganization of railroads, insurance companies, and banks. Later agreed to buy out Carnegie.  
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Cornelius Vanderbilt   The railroad was his enterprise.  
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Leland Stanford   The 4 chief financial backers of the enterprise included him and Collis P. Huntington.  
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James J. Hill   The Great Northern Railroad, running from Duluth to Seattle, was completed in 1893 by him.  
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Alexander Graham Bell   He created it telephone in 1976.  
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Thomas Edison   Invented numerous devices; the most well-known is his perfection of the electric light bulb in 1879.  
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Terence V. Powderly   Leader of the Knights of Labor  
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Samuel Gompers   Leader of the American Federation of Labor  
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The Gilded Age   A name given to the 30 years after the Civil War era by Mark Twain.  
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Populism   The "People's Party"  
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Plessy vs. Ferguson   The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the South's segregation in this case (1896), declaring that separate but equal facilities for blacks were legal under the 14th Amendment.  
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Jim Crow Laws   State-level legal codes of segregation.  
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Credit Mobilier Scandal   Erupted in 1872 when Union Pacific Railroad insiders formed the Credit Mobilier construction company and then hired themselves at inflated prices to build the railroad line, earning high dividends.  
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Haymarket Square Bombing   Chicago police advanced on a meeting called to protest alleged brutalities by authorities. A dynamite bomb was thrown and killed dozens of people.  
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Knights of Labor   Formed in 1869 as a secret society and remained secret until 1881. It sought to include all workers in one big union.  
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American Federation of Labor   Founded in 1886 and was led by Samuel Gompers. The federation consisted of an association of self-governing national unions, each of which kept its own independence.  
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"Yellow Dog" Contract   Contracts workers were forced to sign saying that they would not join a labor union.  
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Anarchism   Belief in the abolition of all government.  
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The Golden Spike   The final, ceremonial spike that was driven into the Union Pacific, the first transcontinental railroad.  
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"Gospel of Wealth"   The belief that the wealthy were obligated to give back to their community.  
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