True or False
The confederacy won most of the battles in the east early in the Civil War.
True
The Crittenden Compromise tried to prevent the split between the Union and the Confederacy by protecting slavery south of the Missouri Compromise line.
True
How did Thomas Edison approach inventing?
He worked at it, setting up labs with assistant to create useful products.
President during the Civil War, freed the slaves
Abraham Lincoln
Inventor of the telephone
Alexander Grahm Bell
The south voted only for the Democratic Party for many years after Reconstruction.
True
Immigrants before 1880 usually came from northern Europe.
True
What advantages did the Union have in the Civil War?
More men, factories, farms, railroads and a navy
Marched to the sea, Union general.
William Sherman
Radical Republican leader in Congress
Thadeus Stevens
Britain joined the confederacy to fight the Union
False
During Congressional Reconstruction the ten southern states that did not approve the Fourteenth Amendment were divided into five military districts under the command of a Union general.
True
How did southern whites regain control towards the end of Reconstruction?
They used violence to force Blacks to stop voting.
Steel manufacturer, retired to give away his fortune
Andrew Carnegie
Made his fortune by controlling oil in America
John D. Rockefeller
Corruption was common in American business and government after the Civil War.
True
After the Civil War, American industry became more valuable than farming.
True
Why was Seward's Folly not a folly?
Alaska was rich in minerals, fish and wood even though it did not have farms.
President who favored easy Reconstruction, impeached
Andrew Johnson
Victorious Union general, bad president
Ulysses S. Grant
During the Gilded Age, many reforms were successful in controlling corruption of railroads and other businesses.
False
Civil War prison camps overflowed because prisoner exchanges ended when the South would not return black Union Soldiers.
True
What was wrong with the civil service during the gilded age?
It was all replaced when the party in power changed and workers had to pay money to the party to keep their jobs.
Commander of the Confederate army
Robert E. Lee
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth