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Republican Radical Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers: Governments in the south with people from the north
Scalawags: southerners that supported Carpetbaggers. Believed to betray the south
Split south into five military districts controlled by US Army. Did many positive things, but are hated because: Northerners, the stole from the south
Reconstruction did not last long enough. Southerners took over government, Jim Crow Laws.
Right to vote and equal protection were useless because of the KKK.
1964-Civil rights act- gave blacks back their rights
Election of 1876- Hayes vs Tilden. Tilden won popular vote, but 4 states had disputed results. South wanted to un-do political reconstruction. Democrats said if hayes is let win, reconstruction will end. Hayes won, reconstruction ended, south took back over. Hayes took the federal troops from the south
Manifest destiny: God-given right to move west. Cattle ranching, Sheep herding. Barbed wire, kept in cattle and kept out bad animals.
Union stations. Trans-continental railroad: Workers were mainly chinese and irish because of immigration
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