American History

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Decks in this class (30)

William Jennings Bryan & Populism
The 1896 election campaign,
The 1900 election campaign,
Populism historiography significance
3  cards
Populism
Populism overview,
The currency debate,
Farmers grievances
5  cards
Age of Populism, Progressivism and Imperialism (1890-1920)
Republican dominance,
Populism,
Progressivism
4  cards
Gilded Age Foreign Policy (1877-1890)
Rising us naval power,
Hawaii,
The pan american conference 1890
3  cards
Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
Turner s frontier thesis 1893,
Implications of the frontier thesis,
Historians criticisms of the fron...
3  cards
Gilded Age Native Americans (1877-1890)
Americanisation,
The dawes act 1887,
The battle of wounded knee 1890
3  cards
Cowboys & the Cattle Ranging Industry (1877-1890)
The chisholm trail,
Cattle ranging,
Cowboys
4  cards
Western Settlement (1877-1890)
The impact of railways,
Life for homesteader settlers on ...,
Agriculture new inventions
5  cards
US Immigration (1877-1890)
Types numbers of us immigrants,
Pull factors,
Push factors
7  cards
African Americans (1877-1890)
African american employment,
Northern migration,
Education
7  cards
US Trade Unions (1877-1890)
The knights of labour,
The haymarket bomb outrage,
Samuel gompers the american feder...
3  cards
Impact of US Industrialisation (1877-1890)
The 1873 depression,
Urbanisation,
Living conditions
4  cards
The Robber Barons
Cornelius vanderbilt railways,
Andrew carnegie steel,
John d rockefeller oil
4  cards
Grover Cleveland (1885-1889 & 1893-1897) & Benjamin Harrison's (1889-1893) Presidency
The 1884 election,
Republican mugwumps,
Cleveland s civil service reforms
10  cards
James Garfield (1881) & Chester Arthur's Presidency (1881-1885)
Stalwarts half breeds,
The 1880 election,
Garfield s civil service reforms
7  cards
Rutherford Hayes Presidency (1877-1881)
The disputed election of 1876,
The 1877 compromise,
End of reconstruction rise of the...
6  cards
The Gilded Age/The Era of Weak Presidents (1877-1890)
The gilded age,
The era of weak presidents,
Republican party s beliefs
7  cards
Reconstruction Era Foreign Policy (1865-1877)
The monroe doctrine,
Us isolationism 1865 1890,
Us mexican relations 1865 1890
7  cards
Reconstruction Era Native Americans (1865-1877)
The importance of the buffalo ton...,
The sand massacre creek 1864,
The battle of little bighorn 1876
5  cards
Manifest Destiny (1865-1890)
Manifest destiny,
Westward expansion motives,
Establishment of federal territories
6  cards
US Trade Unions (1865-1877)
The national labour union 1866 1877,
The national railroad causes stri...,
The national railroad
3  cards
US Economic Growth
Impact of the civil war,
Availability of land,
Population growth
8  cards
Reconstruction Interpretations
Reconstruction political effects ...,
Reconstruction political effects ...,
Reconstruction political effects ...
4  cards
Reconstruction & African Americans
The political positionof african ...,
The economic position of african ...,
The social position of african am...
5  cards
Ulysses S. Grant's Presidency (1869-1877)
The 1868 election,
The 1872 election,
Southern republicanism during rec...
7  cards
Andrew Johnson's Presidency (1865-1869)
Andrew johnson s reconstruction aims,
Radical republicans,
The black codes 1865 1866
7  cards
The US Civil War (1861-1865)
Causes of the us civil war,
Consequences of the us civil war,
The emancipation of proclamation ...
4  cards
Abraham Lincoln's Legacy
Lincoln reconstructionproblems,
The ten percent plan 1864,
The wade davis bill 1865
5  cards
US North-South Divide
Economic differences before the c...,
Economic differences before the c...,
Cultural differences north
8  cards
The US Government
The us president,
The us congress,
The us supreme court
4  cards

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