*Assassination Videos*

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2 Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 (5 days after the war ended) Andrew Johnson became president and vowed to fulfill Lincoln s goal of putting the nation back together *Assassination Videos*

3 13 th amendment- made slavery illegal throughout the US 14 th amendment- guaranteed citizenship to everyone regardless of race 15 th amendment- no citizen can be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or pervious condition of servitude.

4 Southerners who swore allegiance to union were pardoned Former confederate states could hold conventions to set up new state governments States had to cancel secession and ratify the 13 th amendment Ending slavery If these are completed then states could hold elections and reenter the nation

5 Nighttime curfews Could be arrested and forced to work if they have no job Had to sign farming contracts for at least 1 year Could not buy land No intermarrying between races

6 1. southern states put under military rule 2. states had to hold new constitutional conventions 3. Freed slaves allowed to vote 4. Southerners who had supported CSA not allowed to vote (temporality) 5. Had to guarantee equal rights for freed slaves 6. had to ratify 14 th amendment

7 Johnson was upset at the radical republicans Fired Secretary of War Stanton because he was a radical republican Violated Tenure in Office Act Impeachment charges brought to Senate Tried but did not impeach by 1 vote

8 Many blacks remained in the South and sharecropped or tenant farmed Both systems were designed to keep blacks working on white owned land Sharecropping: A family agreed to farm a portion of land in return to housing, tools, and a share of the crops Share of profits decided between farmer and land owner. Tenant Farming: A family paid rent to a land owner for land Owned the crops that grew Had to provide their own housing

9 Federal govt set up the Freedman s Bureau First federal relief agency in US Provided clothes, medical attention, food, education, and land to freed slaves

10 African American set up churches Only organization completely controlled by blacks Became the center for social and political life Schools were set up to educate kids and adults Morehouse College was created to provide a path to higher education for blacks

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12 Thanks to their new rights and military rule, African Americans won many offices in the new state governments 600 African Americans elected to political positions

13 Black codes had been outlawed by radical reconstruction Whites took matters into their own hands KKK and similar groups created

14 Goal was to terrorize blacks into submission Used lynching, beatings, and threats to intimidate

15 Ended after election of 1876 African Americans lost most of their rights they had gained Southerners had control again Jim Crow laws created Literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clause, segregation hippocampus

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17 The invention of railroads created new possibilities for the Western US Congress ordered the Transcontinental Railroad to be built Irish and Chinese immigrants brought in to build it Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies joined tracks in Utah with a gold spike in 1869

18 Lots of people could move west easier because of the Railroad. Large numbers of buffalo killed when building the railroad and for their hide Plaines Indians could not survive- forced onto reservations

19 Many Indian tribes resisted reservations Cheyenne, Nez Perce, and Sioux rose up and battled with US armyeventually lost in sent to reservation in S. Dakota

20 Sioux people created ghost dance hoping to bring back the buffalo US army though Chief Sitting Bull was using the dance to start an uprising US killed Sitting Bull and chased the Sioux to Wounded Knee creek Killed over 150 old men, women and child (unarmed)

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22 Steel now affordable thanks to the Bessemer Process Used steel to make the railroads, but then also to build sky scrapers Railroads could carry the heavy steel all across the nation This allowed business to grow

23 Cornelius Vanderbiltbecame the king of railroads Andrew Carnegie ruled the steel industry John D Rockefeller had a monopoly over oil Standard Oil

24 Trust- when several companies unite under one system Using vertical integration Monopoly- a market where there is only one supplier Pay nobody a profit - John D. Rockefeller

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26 Most impactful inventor of the time Phonograph recorded sound Motion picture cameravideo Electric light bulb Electric company How did the light bulb change the American way of life?

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28 From , Ellis Island was the chief immigration station in the United States. An estimated 17 million immigrants passed through The Chinese Exclusion Act-Chinese were prohibited from legally immigrating to the U.S. Immigrants from Asia passed through Angel Island.

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30 Physical exam- no admission for people who are obviously sick Government Inspector- checked papers from previous nation- no felons Proof of money

31 Nativism- people who were against immigration and who favored white protestant Americans. Nativist were afraid of: Ethnic Ghettos-cultural neighborhoods in cities Loosing jobs to immigrants New languages being spoken New religions Why? These immigrants were from Eastern Europe and China- very different than previous immigrants/americans Skin color, language, religion, culture

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33 Low wages- children forced to work to help out Endless cycle of poverty? No benefits (minimum wage, insurance, SSI) Dangerous working conditions sweatshops

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35 Urban slums created to house all the new immigrants No sewer, water, multiple families per room Tenements Middle Class moved to suburbs Electric trolleys allowed comminuting

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38 People had down time after work and needed entertainment Bars, dance halls, plays, amusement parks, movies, sports Central park created in NYC

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42 -1921-The Emergency Quota Act-To stop the tide of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, Congress passed a law limiting the number of legal immigrants to 3 percent of the number of each nationality in 1910.

43 AFL was founded in 1886 to unite craft workers to be able to fight for wage increase and better conditions Samuel Gompers lead members in walk outs until the company was willing to agree to their demands Collective bargaining

44 Pullman company created a town around their rail road car factory in Illinois for workers to live Workers depended on company for everything Pullman cut wages but did not cut rent Eugene V. Debs lead workers in a strike Pullman workers around the country all participated Federal Army sent to force workers back to work Debs jailed for 6 months- 13 men killed Demonstrated the government would support business not the people- WHY?

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