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- It hurt poor farmers who lost grazing rights for their cattle on the common land
- It was often marked by sharp conflict of disputes over weights of materials and the equality of finished work
- -breaking up harmful trusts-increasing gov regulation of businesses-giving labor a fair bargaining chance-promoting environmental conservation
- What law was finally passed in 1965 which abolished Jim Crow era voting laws? What did it say?
- Gilded Age (everything looked shiny on the outside, but there were many problems within)
- What were three ways Southerners tried to disrupt African Americans from voting.
- France gave up North American holding in Newfoundland, Novia Scotia, Hudson Bay Territory; Spain gave up control of the West African Slave trade (asiento)
- sharecropping, black codes, segregation, hate groups, redeemers
- -Cuba has all treaties approved of by the US-US has the right to interfere in Cuban affairs-US would be given access to naval bases on the island (Guantanamo Bay)
- an economist and leading figure in the Scottish enlightenment who developed the general idea of freedom of enterprise (wrote the Wealth of Nations)
- Railroad companies cut wages (financial panics) and 2/3 of the country's rail trackage shut down; Hayes sent troops to end labor violence
- People believed immigrants took their jobs, had political power, and were upset over religious issues (Catholics)
- France (Louisiana, holdings in India, all of Canada, territories east of the Mississippi); Spain gave up Florida
- Someone threw a bomb in the middle of a workers public meeting, killing many officers and leading Americans to see labor unions as radical and violent (participation declines)
- - lockout (closing the factory)-blacklist (names of pro-union workers were circulated amongst the employers)-yellow-dog contracts (workers were told they must sign an agreement not to form a union as a condition for employment)-calling guards or militia to put down strikes-obtaining court orders for workers to return to work or get arrested
- - Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) would be president-support for republicans in the south would end-building of a southern transcontinental railroad
- Agricultural revolution as a whole became more efficient and market-oriented
- Military districts came to an end, except in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana
- removed remaining restrictions on ex-Confederates, allowing many of them to vote Democrat and allow them to retake control of southern state governments
- Little Wolf's tribe is taken to what fort?