View
- Term
- Definition
- Both Sides
Study
- All (40)
Shortcut Show
Next
Prev
Flip
HIST 112: Exam 1
Presidential Reconstruction
|
placed Reconstruction politics in the president's hands
|
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
|
-temporarily divided the South into 5 districts
-marked the beginning of Congressional Reconstruction
|
The Freedman's Bureau
|
-was vetoed by Andrew Johnson
-provided food and supplies to blacks and whites in the wake of the Civil War
|
Methods of Disenfranchisement in the New South included:
|
-literacy tests
-poll taxes
-grandfather clause
-violence
|
The Comprise of 1877
|
-resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
- ensured that Rutherford B. Hayes would win the presidential election
-marked the end of Radical Reconstruction
-paved the way fro white southern make democrats to reclaim political power
|
The 14th Amendment
|
defined citizenship regardless of race and protected due process under the law
|
Under the Redeemers (Bourbons), state spending for public education
|
dramatically declined
|
Sharecropping is defined as
|
a system of southern agriculture where landlords provided all requisites for production and laborers provided nothing but their own labor
|
The major proponent of the New South Creed was
|
Henry W. Grady
|
In the New South, all of the following forms of industry were profitable for the South, except:
|
automobile production
|
The 19th century leader who championed for ceaseless agitation and immediate political rights for African Americans was
|
WEB Dubois
|
Problems with the federal reservation policy included all of the following EXCEPT:
|
Reservation lands had been promised to emancipated salves by the federal government
|
The Native American Chief who fled with his people only to be caught 30 miles from Canada was
|
Chief Joseph
|
The native American Chief who led the Apache in a guerrilla warfare against Mexican and American forces was
|
Geronimo
|
The migration west was spurred by
|
-The Homestead Act
-Transcontinental railroad
|
The Dawes Severalty Act
|
eliminated tribal ownership of land by dividing tribal lands and granting it to individuals
|
The cyclical nature of western industry, from mining to ranching to agriculture, tended to follow a pattern of
|
private settlement followed by corporate ownership
|
In the West small farmers struggled because of
|
-the climate
-expense of supplies and machinery
-increased debt
|
Industrialization changed the American Labor force in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
|
by providing clean, safe and sanitary working conditions for women and children
|
After 1980, most immigrants were
|
From southern and eastern Europe
|
The process of bringing together into a single company several of the activities in the process of creating a manufactured product, including the acquisition of raw materials, the manufacturing of a product, and marketing and selling of the product, is termed
|
vertical integration
|
Through Carnegie Library and Carnegie Hall, Andrew Carnegie attempted to foster his defense of corporate America, in which great wealth carried responsibility, also known as
|
gospel of wealth
|
The American Federation of Labor
|
was organized by craft
|
The Homestead Strike
|
Resulted in the deaths of guards and workers
|
The Pullman Strike
|
-resulted in the involvement of President Cleveland on behalf of the plant owner
-temporarily shut down all rail traffic in the US
-resulted in the use of federal troops against workers
|
By 1900, all of the following technologies had helped transform urban growth EXCEPT:
|
Gasoline-powered buses
|
The Urban's middle class of the late 19th century
|
took advantage of new urban transportation systems and moved to the suburbs
|
All of the following are true of dumbbell tenements except
|
the tenements were located far from the urban core
|
The urban political machines did all of the following except
|
once in power, bosses were active in passing legislation limiting corruption
|
Advertising in the late 19th century America
|
focused on family values, cleanliness, and safety
|
The negative name for entrepreneurs such as Andrew Carnegie that suggested these men were greedy, selfish, immoral and unscrupulous was
|
Robber Barons
|
Defenders of corporate America used the theory of evolution to justify their success, in a concept known as
|
Social Darwinism
|
List 3 inventions, or forms of technology, that helped make possible America's rapid industrialization in the late 19th Century:
|
-Subways
|
Name one of the Organizations that worked to assimilate Native Americans
|
WNIA
|
In order to allow several people to occupy urban buildings, and still meet state laws requiring an opening for each bedroom, the architectural design of urban tenant buildings were nicknamed what?
|
Dumbbell Tenements
|
Wounded Knee
|
who: Native Americans
what: Natives were practicing ghost dancing which worried whites. They were told to stop but didn't and a massacre ensued.
when: 1889
where: South Dakota
why: The US demonstrating power over something that wasn't a big issue.
|
Plessey VS. Ferguson
|
who: Homer Plessey
what: Fought for separate but equal rights
when: 1869
where: Lousiana
why:
|
Booker T. Washington
|
who: civil rights activist
what:
when:
wehre:
why:
|
Chief Joseph
|
who:
what:
when:
where:
why:
|
The Lost Cause
|
who:
what:
when:
where:
why:
|