Pre-Civil War
Civil War
Post-Civil War
Westward Expansion & the Populist Party
Misc.
100

What is skilled versus unskilled labor?

skilled required training whereas unskilled does not

100

What was the Missouri Compromise?

temporarily settled a divisive national debate over whether new states would permit or prohibit slavery

100

What was the time period after the Civil War called and what was it's goal?

Reconstruction

rebuilding the nation as a whole

100

What group of people made up the majority of the populist party?

farmers

100

Who did Andrew Jackson expand voting rights to?

all white men

200

What did unions want? (3 things)

shorter work day, better pay, better conditions

200

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory

200

Give an example of a black code

can't own guns, can't assemble, can't be without a job
200

List two reasons people moved West

new opportunities, gold, escaping criminal background

200

What were the first two political parties in the U.S.?

Federalists and Democratic Republicans

300

Define sectionalism

being loyal to your section or part of the country instead of the whole country

300

List three of the ways slaves resisted the institution of slavery. 

feigning illness, working slowly, producing shoddy work, and misplacing or damaging tools and equipment

300

What was decided at Plessy v. Ferguson? 

Separate but equal is constitutional

300

Name three groups of people moving West

Single men, married men and women, and single women, also Native Americans and some immigrants
300

Define intersectionality

Intersectionality is an framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege

400

Define the cottonocracy

upper class of merchants, plantation owners, manufacturers that own the cotton trade 

400

List three causes of the Civil War

Causes: 

slavery, sectionalism, growing abolition movement

400

What were the three Reconstruction amendments and what did each of them do?

13th end slavery

14th black folks now citizens and equal protection under the law

15th black men can vote

400

What was the Populist Party?

political party that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issue, free coinage of gold and silver, public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax

400

List two ways that the transcontinental railroad change society and changed the environment

Societal

  • It changed life for Native Americans by wiping out most of their land and forcing them into reservations.
  • It allowed for crops to be transported faster for trade.
  • More Americans would be able to travel westward in a much more efficient manner.

Environmental

  • It would kill thousands of bison.
  • Fuels needed for the trains and railroad construction would pollute the environment.
  • There were lots of explosions and holes in the ground or mountains to make tunnels and tracks.
500

Describe laborers conditions in the North

long hours, bad pay, unsafe working, close living quarters, poverty

500

List three effects of the Civil War


Effects:

slaves free, black men can vote, Jim Crow laws, Lincoln assassinated

500

What are the 3 main problems in the US post-Civil War?

4 mil freed uneducated jobless slaves

readmitting southerners to the union/ southern politics

widespread destruction of nation

500

Describe the relationship between Texas and the Populist Party

Good, Texas was a breading ground of the populist farmer due to the many farmers

500

First five presidents in order

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.

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