HIST 1312: Test 1
25 Cards in this Set
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Which Constitutional amendment, ratified in December 1865, abolished slavery in the United States?
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13th Amendment
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Which of the following is included in the 14th Amendment?
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-Defines citizenship
-guarantees equal protection of law
-prohibits states from abridging the rights of any citizen
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Which Constitutional amendment prohibits violation of the rights of citizens to vote because of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
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15th amendment
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Which of the following was the battle between the Sioux Indians and General Custer?
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battle of little big horn
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Which of the following was the battle in which Sioux Indian resistance was completely broken?
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Battle of Wounded Knee
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Which of the following choices best describes the primary type of agriculture practiced in the South during the post-Civil War period?
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Sharecropping agriculture
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Which of the following was the number one metal ore mined during the late 19th century?
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copper
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Congress passed which of the following to encourage the settlement of the West in the mid-19th century?
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Homestead Act
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The Second Industrial Revolution of the late-19th and 20th centuries relied on the use of which of the following sources of energy?
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Electric
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Which of the following branches of science was Second Industrial Revolution of the late-19th century based on predominately?
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Chemistry
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Why did the number of authors and the amount and variety of literature published suddenly soar during the late 19th century?
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International Copyright Agreement
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Industrial Revolutions are always accompanied by which of the following?
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Both transportation and communication revolutions
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Which of the following cities was the first underground subway constructed?
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Boston
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The Presidential Succession Act of 1866, which defined the order of presidential succession order as which of the following?
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President, vice president, secretary of state, secretary of treasury and then secretary of war
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What did the Grand Army of the Republic demand of Congress, which Congress enacted but President Cleveland successfully vetoed?
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Demanded that the federal gov. began paying month pensions to just Union veterans and continue to pay them as long as the veterans or their widows lived
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Which of the following presidents was in the White House at the time Congress enacted the Interstate Commerce Act?
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Grover Cleveland
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In the Munn v. Illinois and Peck v. Chicago and NW Railroad Granger cases, the Supreme Courts rulings declared which of the following?
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Established the right of the federal gov. to regulate the activities of businesses in the interests of the public AND upheld the rights of states in areas of authority shared concurrently with the federal government if Congress failed to do so
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Under the Interstate Commerce Act, Congress included which of the following provisions?
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Railroad companies were required to establish uniform rates for all customers and publish those rates
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The pamphlet called Coins Financial School, published by Harvard Business School, included which of the following statements?
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The U.S. Treasury keep at least $100 million in gold reserves to prevent the federal government from going bankrupt
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Congress enacted the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890 and it was effectively used for the first time during which of the following?
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To end the American Railways Union national strike called in support of the workers of the Pullman Sleeping Car Company
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The Populist Party, which became an organized U.S. political third-party in 1892, was comprised of voters from which of the following groups of people within U.S. society?
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farmers, miners and laborers
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Populists agitated for the use of what form of legal tender to be used by the U.S. government?
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Silver and gold valued at a 16:1 ratio
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Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, president of the War College and author of The Influence of Seapower on History, 1660-1783, made which of the following statements?
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Both that a country's navy should be strong even to destroy the main force of its enemy in one decisive battle and that the country with the strongest navy would be the worlds greatest power.
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In the case of Plessey v. Ferguson (1898), the Supreme Court ruled in which of the following ways?
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Separate but equal was constitutional
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Which of the following contributed to a Declaration of War against Spain after the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in the harbor of Spanish-controlled Havana, Cuba in January 1898?
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- The yellow journalism of newspaper editor William Randolph Hearst, who owned newspapers across the country, which printed inflammatory articles nationwide, exaggerating the atrocities and abuses being inflicted on Cubans by Spanish officials in Cuba
- The printing of a letter written…
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HIST 1312: Test 1