The Civil war - The Gilded Age Test
1. It means that it reopened the debate over the border between free and slave states
2. -They could not afford food or supplies due to high inflation
- They lost slaves who were seized by the government
3. Lincoln desired peace and sought to rejoin the states into one nation as smoothly as possible while also ending slavery
4. The Confederacy could no longer get supplies from western states
5. He put the "Unconditional Surrender" Grant in charge of the Union armies.
6. African Americans gained more rights and influence in society.
7. -Johnson broke the law when he fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton without Congressional approval.
-Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act and refused to support other reform legislation that granted African Americans more rights.
8. Sharecropping; sharecropper; landowner; merchant
9. There were many immigrant workers willing to work long hours for low wages.
10. electric power
11. Laissez-faire: supported lack of government intervention in business affairs
Interstate Commerce Act: Regulated railroads
Sherman Anti-Trust Act: Banned business practices that supported monopolies
12. He helped form some successful businesses that are still in existence today.
13. Urban workers’ wages were very low and made it difficult to live.
14. Advances in technology led to more conveniences and a higher standard of living for a growing middle class.
15. Cowboys could not access enough grass and water for their cows after ranchers sectioned it off with barbed wire.
16. A few miners found gold and other valuable metals, leading many people to establish stores and other businesses near the newly rich.
17. -The Navajo returned to their homeland after the reservation was deemed a failure.
- Many American Indians died from poor living conditions.
18. Benjamin “Pap” Singleton encouraged African Americans to move to Kansas for better opportunities.
19. white settlers taking their land from them
20. crowded living conditions
21. the settlement house movement
22. showing urban life in a realistic manner
23. They couldn’t afford to move out of the cities they arrived in.
24. Immigrants and their children can be good citizens.
25. Emancipation Proclamation
26. They feared the consequences of African Americans having political power.
27. -Bribery
- Kickbacks
28. It contributed to a depletion of water sources.
29. It united farmers from many different parts of the country into a single movement.
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