History 121
United States History Since 1865
Reconstruction
• Presidential
Reconstruction
• Freedmen
• “Black Codes”
• Congressional
Reconstruction
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Civil Rights Act 1866
• Andrew Johnson
1865-1868
The West
• The Great American
Desert
• Mormons
• Vigilantes
• Pony Express
• Telegraph
• Sioux
• Red Cloud
• Crazy Horse
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Buffalo
Dawes Act 1887
Barbed Wire 1874
Homestead Act 1862
Timber Culture Act
Frederick Jackson
Turner
• “Frontier Theory”
Industry
• Andrew Carnegie
• “Trusts”
• Standard Oil
Company
• John D. Rockefeller
• “Robber Barons”
Late 19th Century Politics
• Laissez Faire
• “Greenbacks”
• “Free Coinage of
Silver”
• 16 to 1
• Bland-Allison Act
1878
• Sherman Silver
Purchase Act 1890
• Civil Service
• Pendleton Act 1883
• Ulysses S. Grant
1868-1880
• Liberal Republicans
• Horace Greeley
• “Compromise of
1877”
• Rutherford B. Hays
1876-1880
• Samuel Tilden
• James G. Blaine
• General Winfield
Scott Hancock
• James A. Garfield
1880-1881
• Chester A. Arthur
1881-1884
• Grover Cleveland
1884-1888 & 18921896
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“Mugwumps”
Benjamin Harrison 1888-1892
Peoples’ Party (Populists)
McKinley Tariff
Political Protest
• “Social Darwinism”
• 14th Amendment
• Interstate Commerce
Act 1887
• Sherman Anti-Trust
Act 1890
• Haymarket Riot 1886
• Anarchists
• Homestead Strike
1892
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Pinkerton Detectives
Settlement Workers
Jane Addams
Jacob Riis, How the
Other Half Lives
• Edward Bellamy,
Looking Backward
• Henry George
• Knights of Labor
• A. F. of L. (American
Federation of Labor)
• Samuel Gompers
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Populism
Grange Movement
Farmers Alliances
Peoples’ Party
(Populist Party) 1890
• James B. Weaver
• Grover Cleveland
• Pullman Strike 1894
• A.R.U. (American
Railway Union)
• Eugene V. Debs
• Socialist Party 1900
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Richard Olney
John P. Altgeld
Jacob Coxey
“Coxey’s Army”
William McKinley
1896-1901
William Jennings Bryan