History

THE CIVIL WAR                                                                                       RECONSTRUCTION                                                   EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION 

Union: Strong central government, wanted to abolish slavery                  Lincolns Plan: Post-Civil War initiative with goal      America: Domminating world markets, economic

Confederacy: No central government, wanted to maintain institution of       of reintegrating South to the Union                             growth increased production

slavery …The Union has many more factories, people and railroads      Ten Percent Plan: required 10% of their voting population      People: Job opportunities, formation of labor unions

STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES : North                                                favoring abolishing slavery and establish state government        Enviornment:Pollution, deforestation

Manpower/resources                                                                            to join Union                                          CARNEGIE: Philanthropist(someone that does smith good, raise $; owned steel Carnegie Steel

Abe Lincoln                          CIVIL RIGHTS ACT: Called for complete equality of African-Americans which           ROCKEFELLER: Business magnate, owned Standard Oil Company

Industry workers              would abolish black codes                                                                                                    LABOR UNIONS: Organized associations of workers that aimed to protect the rights

Manufacturing               RADICAL REPUBLICANS : Protect freed slaves, government involvement was necessary       and interests of employees

Hold control of navy                for abolition, military rule in South                                                                                            WHY? In response to harsh working conditions and lack of workers rights

Inexperienced to land                                  13th Amendment Prohibits slavery                                                                                    CHALLENGES IN LATE 1800S 

STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES : South           14th Amendment  Protects natural rights, grants citizenship to all US-born citizen      Graft: The illegal use of political power for personal gain

Generals- Robert E Lee                              15th amendment Gives all men right to vote                                                         Boss Tweed: Head of Tammany Hall; NYC democratic political machine

Experience                            BLACK CODES: Laws that served to limit rights afforded to African Americans                      INDIGENOUS CHALLENGES- Shifting Lands:

Short supply lines                       FREEDMAN’S BUREAU: Federal Agency provided assistance to newly freed blacks         Gov forced people to move west of Mississippi, forced assimilation(be alike)

Small population                                  SHARECROPPING: Agricultural system where landowners provided supplies          to weaken tribes, sand creek massacre

No industry                                                                  to tenant farmers for crops                                                               FARM ISSUES: Low crop prices, debt. high transportation cost, higher production cost

Weak economy                                                                 Political corruption from Grant led to financial crisis                tan sell, bad weather

SUCCESSION: The action of withdrawing from a nation                    COMPROMISE. OF 1877: Determined 1876 election by withdrawing     MINORITIES: Las Gorras Blancas, Chinese were segregated in west,

WHY? Southern states believed they held the right to leave Union                     troops in South, ending reconstruction and reestablishing       Mexican-Americans lost their land to Anglo-Americans

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT: Law that required the return of a runaway slave to            white supremacy with election of Hayes                              CAPITALISM: Economic system based off private ownership

their owners … Was a violation to the freedom of the North                                  CAUSES OF RECONSTRUCTION: Ending of Civil War,       and the investment of money to make a profit

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION: Treaty signed by Lincoln that freed all          freedom of slaves                                                                INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: Began in UK and US

slaves of Confederacy in rebellion; 1863                                                             IMMIGRATION / INDUSTRIALIZATION                               WHAT DOES A COUNTRY NEED TO BE INDUSTRIALIZED? 

UNION GENERAL-Grant                                                                               People were immigrating for better economic opportunities,        Business Conditions: Inventiveness, capitalists, entrepreneurs 

Gained control of Mississippi River, allowed Union to gain control of war       religious freedom escape political unrest                                    Transportation: Rivers, paved roads railroads

Used his leadership to command                                                               Immigration process was crowded discriminatory, bias,              Transportation is important  bc otherwise raw materials can’t reach factories

CONFEDERACY GENERAL E LEE                                                    had to pass inspections                                                                    goods don’t markets, workers can’t get to factories

Life as soldier was dangerous, unsanitary, traumatizing          NATIVISM:The political idea that people who were born in a country are     Natural Recourses: coal, timber, iron

ANACONDA PLAN:                                                    superior to immigrants                                                                                               Labor: pool of workers

Block the ports                             CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT: Enacted in 1882; prohibited immigration of Chinese laborers to US and   Conditions in country: Improved agriculture, stable gov, market for industrial 

Control Mississippi River               denied citizenship to those already living in US                                                                                         goods

Shorten confederacy supplies.           “BIRDS OF PASSAGE”: Immigrants who came to work in US then went back to country to live            PROGRESSIVISM: Political attitude favoring changes or reforms through 

EFFECTS of CIVIL WAR                   EMERGENCY QUOTA ACT 1921: Imposed annual quotas based on country population set at 3%      governmental actions

America is reunited                                IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1924: Provided immigration visas to 2% of all people that received a quota     WHAT CAUSED IT?:  Political, economic and social change in he 19th-

Era of Reconstruction begins in south        IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1917: Created “Astatic Barred Zone”, bans asians and Non-White              century US

CAUSES of CIVIL WAR                            immigration                                                                                                                                       4 Goals of PROGRESSIVISM:  

Slavery                                                INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:Impacted American life by revolutionizing manufactured things                 Social: Protecting the health of people in society

Balance of power conflicts               and how they did their work                                                                                                                           Labor Reform: Changing the way that US produces, distributes and 

Economic differences                      INDUSTRIALIZATION:When a country develops factories and more of it population live in cities                consumes goods

CONDFED STRATEGY                 than rural areas                                                                                                                                           Big Business reform:  Changing the way business operate for the peoples

Stay independent; did not want to conquer North                                                                                                                                                     betterment 

* South depended on king cotton