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

• 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 & 1892-1896

• “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

• 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

• 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

• Richard Olney• John P. Altgeld• Jacob Coxey• “Coxey’s Army”• William McKinley

1896-1901

William Jennings Bryan