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History
9th Grade
05/17/2013

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Term
pardon
Definition
when a person is forgiven and released from prison by president no matter what the charge is.
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reconstruction
Definition
rebuild of the south after civil war.
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women's sufferage
Definition
women's right to vote.
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manifest destiny
Definition
the belief that god gave americans the west and told them to expand there.
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kkk
Definition
a group of white men set to terrorize black people and distinguish their rights.
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upton sinclar "the jungle"
Definition
upton singular created took called "the jungle" that brings out the terrible conditions of the meat packing industry.
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john D. rockefeller
Definition
the richest man in history that almost monopolized using horizontal integration.
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horizontal/vertical integration
Definition
horizontal integration: combining firms in the same business into one large corporation.
vertical integration: when a company owns all of the different businesses on which it depends for its operation
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andrew carnegie
Definition
found a cheap efficient way to make steel.
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thomas edison
Definition
invented the phonograph and the first commercial light bulb.
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sharecropper
Definition
when a farmer lives on an owner's land and the owner provides some crops to live on the land for free.
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14th amendment
Definition
slavery is abolished
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15th amendment
Definition
women's sufferage is passed or allowed
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radical republicanism
Definition
republican that have outrageous views on things politically
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voting restrictions
Definition
restrictions on some people like women and african americans from vein able to vote.
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sussex pledge
Definition
a plan to keep the U.S out of the war a little longer so that the foreign- policy goals of both germany and president wilson meat.
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