AMH 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Gilded Age, Second Industrial Revolution, Monroe Doctrine
1 Mar 2020
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The gilded age - phrase for the era (1876-1914) by mark twain. Not as great as it was made out to be, lots of changes. As for the rest it"s mostly the same! Reconstruction - after the civil war, the south lost everything. The south has no money b/c they used confederate money which became worthless. Some people never saw money (traded items for other items) Lincoln wants to reunite the country, southern folks were family to northerners. Unfortunately, lincoln gets assassinated by an actor from the south and then the. Black people have jobs in the south (judge, postmasters, etc. Was a senator beforehand, believed in slavery, white supremacist, (basically any trump supporter lmaoo basically a opportunist) Before he died (obvi) abe trusted this man as his vp. Opposed the freedmen"s bureau which was designed to transition slaves into citizens. The radical republicans opposed everything johnson said.
