The Gilded Age
Alexander Graham Bell's invention that spawned AT&T
What is the telephone?
The goal of history
What is "to tell a story"?
Even though Tennessee ratified the 14th Amendment and avoided troop occupation, they have the distinction of being the birthplace of this terrorist organization that operated during the era
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This organization was created to help slaves adjust to their new lives after the Civil War, but its lasting legacy was establishing public schools for black students to attend
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Tragically shot in the back of the head while watching a play at Ford's Theater in 1865
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The 13th Amendment prohibits this
What is involuntary servitude (slavery)?
This individual is often considered the first Robber Baron, specializing in transportation, whose name adorns an SEC university known for its academics and now an upset of #1 Alabama in 2024
Who is (Cornelius) Vanderbilt?
This "school" of historical interpretation stresses an economic or materialistic motive for actions and feels that the U.S. has been harmful in world affairs because of greed
What is "Revisionist"?
Individuals who realized they had no political opportunities in the South unless they switched to the Republican Party were viewed as traitors and were known by this term
Who were Scalawags?
Due to the economic devastation of the South many former slaves were forced into these contractual agreements in order to find work and make a living
What is sharecropping?
Some think this presidential assassin escaped Virginia and died in 1903 in Enid, Oklahoma
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
State laws enacted in the South to keep freed slaves in a second class status were known as this
What are "Black Codes"?
This talented inventor holds the most patents in U.S. history with 1,093, with his most famous related to electrification and the phonograph (music/record player)
Who is Thomas Edison?
This "school" of historical interpretation believes that the value of history is learning from the mistakes and building upon what works
What is "Realist"?
The death of Abraham Lincoln pushed many Republicans to this place on the Political Spectrum
What is "Radical"?
This essentially became the currency in the barter economy of the South after the Civil War
What is cotton?
The victorious general of the Union who would serve two terms as president and go to war against the Klan
Who is (Ulysses) Grant?
The 14th Amendment's equal protection and due process clauses apply to this level of government
What is state government?
This individual cornered the market on the oil industry and his name adorns a plaza in New York City to this day
Who is (John D.) Rockefeller?
This "school" of historical interpretation is often found in elementary school textbooks and has a romanticized view
What is "Nationalist"?
This term describes someone occupying a mainstream position avoiding extreme views and is considered someone occupying a center position on the left–right political spectrum
What is "Moderate"?
One significant threat to the cotton harvest was this invasive species of insect (not on the test)
Northerners who moved South after the Civil War and were viewed as invading opportunistic Yankees
Who are Carpetbaggers?
One way states created loopholes around the 15th Amendment
What is poll taxes (or literacy tests, or grandfather clauses)?
The site (town and state) where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869
Where is Promontory Point, Utah?
The #1 reason for misinterpretation of history is this
What is ignorance?
Reconstruction came to an end due to a deal worked out between the Democrats and Republicans as a result of controversy during this presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Sam Tilden
What is the Election of 1876?
Troop occupation of the South was established by this law
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
The first impeached president in United States' history
Who is (Andrew) Johnson?
This Supreme Court Landmark decision upheld or legalized segregation and gave birth to Jim Crow laws
What is Plessy v Ferguson?