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- All of the following were key industries in the Gilded Age West EXCEPT
- This 1877 Supreme Court case affirmed that states could regulate key businesses, such as railroads and grain elevators, if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest, ______________________.
- In 1866, white supremacists in the South began this organization, _____________________________, which used violence, guerrilla warfare, and ultimately murder to terrorize southern blacks during Reconstruction.
- They established the Populist Party to pursue their demands politically.Farmer's Alliance
- On March 3, 1865 Congress set up the _______________________________________________ to provide provisions, clothing, fuel, medical care, and legal aid to protect and assist the former slaves in the South.
- This historian, _________________________________________, developed the influential Frontier Thesis that claimed the existence of the western frontier had influenced American character in fundamental ways.
- Only allowed membership to skilled workers in the trades and prohibited unskilled workers.
- Choose the Radical Republican congressional leaders paired below.
- After defeating Samuel Tilden and being inaugurated as President, Rutherford B. Hayes promised "a complete change of men and policy" that effectively ended Reconstruction in an episode known by this name, _____________________.
- __________________________ was President Abraham Lincoln's plan to readmit the former Confederate states that planned to grant amnesty to most ex-Confederates and allowed each rebellious state to return to the Union under lenient conditions, but it was never implemented.
- How did Conservatives feel about the New Deal?
- who were prominent Americans who opposed involvement with Europe before Pearl Harbor?
- Where did most of the funding of WWII come from in America?
- The evidence employed in the excerpt most directly reflected the influence of the
- On May 22nd, 1856 Preston S. Brooks, a South Carolina congressman (who supported slavery) beat Senator _______________ (who earlier made an impassioned speech against slavery) with a cane on the Senate floor nearly killing him.
- Military order issued by President Abraham Lincoln that freed slaves in areas still controlled by the Confederacy.
- The Union army's devastating march through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah led by General William T Sherman intended to demoralize civilians and destroy resources the Confederate army needed to fight.
- According to Senator John Sherman, the war resulted in capitalists such as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie, who imagined making "millions as confidently as formerly of thousands" after the war.
- A monumental three-day battle in southern Pennsylvania, widely considered a turning point in the war, in which Union forces defeated Lee's Confederate army and forced it back into Virginia.
- Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that ended slavery and freed all slaves in the United States.