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- What future U.S. president traveled to France to make the deal?
- In what year did the United States make the Louisiana Purchase?
- Industrialization within free market economies created vast numbers of
- Where did Ugartechea send a group of soldiers and what was their mission?
- 1. Former confederate leaders could not serve in the southern states government2. Congress had to approve new constitutions for each Southern state3. Southern States had to guarantee the voting writes for African American men
- Women and children typically received _______ the wages of adult men
- Rising wages and wealth creation made possible shorter work days, better working conditions, the end of child labor, and efforts to protect the
- By the end of the 19th century, modern sewage systems, garbage removal, and other _________ improved the urban environment
- What was written under the cannon on the flag some of the Texas women designed?
- Industrialization within free market economies created a consistently rising
- What did Andrew Ponton do with the cannon?
- Laid the ground work for freedom and legal equality for African Americans
- Many children found work in _____________ and some in the mining industry
- He explained that population growth always exceeds food production, dooming a percentage of the population to perpetual hunger, poverty, and disease
- It was to distribute provisions to needy Southerners, especially formerly enslaved people
- The IR _______________ create the problems of low wages, long hours, child labor
- With the factory system, workers receive this instead of pay for production
- Lincoln's Plan: 1. He wanted voters in each state to take an oath of loyalty to the union - once 10% of the voters had taken the oath, the state could form a new state government. 2 He wanted slavery banned in all new states and in order for the state to have representation in Congress, it had to do these things. 3. Lincoln didn't want to punish the South after the war because his would slow down the nations healing. He offered amnesty to white southerners who would swear loyalty to the union. Only confederate leaders would be punished.When Lincoln died and Johnson became president, things changed. Johnson would give amnesty to most southerners as long as they swore loyalty to the union. Confederate leaders could receive pardons by appealing to him. Johnson opposed equal rights for African Americans and though that white men should manage the south. He did believe that states needed to outlaw slavery before rejoining the union.
- Scandals in the Grant administration and support for reconstruction was beginning to decrease in some parts of the north.
- After the terrible Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s, Britain repealed the ______________ and adopted free trade policies for the remainder of the century