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-Leading pro slavery senator in the 1830's and 1840's
-Owned upstate South Carolina Plantation with 80
slaves
-Clemson sits on his land today
John C. Calhoun -Felt the Declaration was "rubbish"
-"All men are created equal" is illogical
-Inequality was a sign of human progress
-Slavery was a "positive good"
-Same views of the Declaration as George Fitzhugh
-Calls Jefferson the "Architect of Ruin and Inaugurator
of Anarchy"
-Says Declaration is full of self-evident lies
George Fitzhugh -Suggests all workers are better off enslaved
-He saw a plantation as a perfect and ideal world
where planters/serfs have an obligation
-Same views of the Declaration as John C. Calhoun
-1858
-"Cotton is king"
James Henry Hammond
-"The slaves of the south are content, happy,
unaspiring, and utterly incapable"
, -Born in 1809
-Humble beginnings, but by 1860 he was a wealthy
corporate lawyer
-Used his log cabin background as a political tactic
-Declared himself a follower of Henry Clay and his
"American System"
-Celebrated the political and economic system that
Abraham Lincoln allowed him to rise in life
-"The Right to Rise" (on another term)
-Felt slavery needed to end since it was a "necessary
evil"
-Hated slavery because it's a monstrous injustice
-Wins election of 1860 as a Republican
-Gettysburg and Second Inaugural Address were
both dedicated to his hatred for slavery
-Abraham Lincoln
-Get rich or die trying
"The Right to Rise" -Created by the Declaration and Constitution
-You were able to rise in life because of the political
and economic system in place
-1862 (same year as Morrill Land Grant Act)
-Any U.S. citizen who had never borne arms could file
an application and lay claim to 160 acres of
government land
-Had to live on land for 5 years and improve it by
Homestead Act
building a 12x14 home and grow crops
-After 5 years, they submitted a file for a patent (or
deed) to the land
-1.6 million Homesteads were granted (270 million
acres)
-1862 (same year as Homestead Act)
Morrill Land Grant Act -A nation where everyone has/owns their own land
-Part of the reconstruction era from 1865-1877
, -Promise made in the US for agrarian reform for
former enslaved African American farmers by Union
"40 Acres and a Mule"
General William Tecumseh Sherman
-January 16, 1865
-Planter divided up his land and gave each family a
cabin and plot to tend
Sharecropping -In return, the planter received 1/2 the crop and costs
for plow, seed, mule, etc.
-Also known as the "crop-lien system)
-Worked his way up in society from being a bobbin
boy making $1.20 a week at age thirteen to one of the
richest men in the world
-By 18, he was a personal telegrapher and assistant to
Thomas Scott, superintendent of Penn Railroads
western division
-Carnegie becomes the superintendent of the Penn
Andrew Carnegie and
Railroad Pitt Division (and avoided civil war by
"The Gospel of Wealth"
purchasing a substitute for $850)
-Starts Keystone Bridge company knowing that steel
was the future
-Believed that building mansions is not what people
should do with their money, instead it should be put
toward philanthropy
-Gives away 90% of his fortune
-Carnegie becomes an expert at both
Vertical and Horizontal -You basically own everything
Integration -Carnegie owned everything associated with U.S.
steel
-Lowering your prices so much that you drive others
out of business and buy them
-Used in "economies of scale"
Cutthroat Pricing -There was increased specialization
-You could obtain lower interest rates when
borrowing from banks
-Model used in one industry after another
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Terms in this set (136)
-Leading pro slavery senator in the 1830's and 1840's
-Owned upstate South Carolina Plantation with 80
slaves
-Clemson sits on his land today
John C. Calhoun -Felt the Declaration was "rubbish"
-"All men are created equal" is illogical
-Inequality was a sign of human progress
-Slavery was a "positive good"
-Same views of the Declaration as George Fitzhugh
-Calls Jefferson the "Architect of Ruin and Inaugurator
of Anarchy"
-Says Declaration is full of self-evident lies
George Fitzhugh -Suggests all workers are better off enslaved
-He saw a plantation as a perfect and ideal world
where planters/serfs have an obligation
-Same views of the Declaration as John C. Calhoun
-1858
-"Cotton is king"
James Henry Hammond
-"The slaves of the south are content, happy,
unaspiring, and utterly incapable"
, -Born in 1809
-Humble beginnings, but by 1860 he was a wealthy
corporate lawyer
-Used his log cabin background as a political tactic
-Declared himself a follower of Henry Clay and his
"American System"
-Celebrated the political and economic system that
Abraham Lincoln allowed him to rise in life
-"The Right to Rise" (on another term)
-Felt slavery needed to end since it was a "necessary
evil"
-Hated slavery because it's a monstrous injustice
-Wins election of 1860 as a Republican
-Gettysburg and Second Inaugural Address were
both dedicated to his hatred for slavery
-Abraham Lincoln
-Get rich or die trying
"The Right to Rise" -Created by the Declaration and Constitution
-You were able to rise in life because of the political
and economic system in place
-1862 (same year as Morrill Land Grant Act)
-Any U.S. citizen who had never borne arms could file
an application and lay claim to 160 acres of
government land
-Had to live on land for 5 years and improve it by
Homestead Act
building a 12x14 home and grow crops
-After 5 years, they submitted a file for a patent (or
deed) to the land
-1.6 million Homesteads were granted (270 million
acres)
-1862 (same year as Homestead Act)
Morrill Land Grant Act -A nation where everyone has/owns their own land
-Part of the reconstruction era from 1865-1877
, -Promise made in the US for agrarian reform for
former enslaved African American farmers by Union
"40 Acres and a Mule"
General William Tecumseh Sherman
-January 16, 1865
-Planter divided up his land and gave each family a
cabin and plot to tend
Sharecropping -In return, the planter received 1/2 the crop and costs
for plow, seed, mule, etc.
-Also known as the "crop-lien system)
-Worked his way up in society from being a bobbin
boy making $1.20 a week at age thirteen to one of the
richest men in the world
-By 18, he was a personal telegrapher and assistant to
Thomas Scott, superintendent of Penn Railroads
western division
-Carnegie becomes the superintendent of the Penn
Andrew Carnegie and
Railroad Pitt Division (and avoided civil war by
"The Gospel of Wealth"
purchasing a substitute for $850)
-Starts Keystone Bridge company knowing that steel
was the future
-Believed that building mansions is not what people
should do with their money, instead it should be put
toward philanthropy
-Gives away 90% of his fortune
-Carnegie becomes an expert at both
Vertical and Horizontal -You basically own everything
Integration -Carnegie owned everything associated with U.S.
steel
-Lowering your prices so much that you drive others
out of business and buy them
-Used in "economies of scale"
Cutthroat Pricing -There was increased specialization
-You could obtain lower interest rates when
borrowing from banks
-Model used in one industry after another
