Civil War/Reconstruction
Reconstruction/AA Experience
Westward Expansion
The Industrial Revolution
Farmers, Populism, Labor
100
What was the goal of the Union strategy shown in the image above?
to surround the Confederate states and cut them off from help and supplies
100
What best completes the diagram?
both discriminated against African Americans
100
What best completes the diagram?
Push Native Americans to adopt an agricultural lifestyle
100
How does horizontal integration differ from vertical integration?
it consolidates many firms involved in the same level of production into one large company.
100
Based on the cartoon,what best reflects the impact of political machines?
Political machines had control over New York City's local government.
200
Describe the impact of carpetbaggers on Reconstruction.
They profited off of the damaged economy in the post-war South.
200
What was a result of the sharecropping system?
Landowners could lie about expenses to keep sharecroppers in debt.
200
What did the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862 and the Pacific Railway Act demonstrate about the federal government?
It was committed to settling the Western territories.
200
This cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century?
monopolies
200
"If there's a fire in Ninth, Tenth, or Eleventh Street, for example, any hour of the day or night, I'm usually there . . . . If a family is burned out I don't ask them whether they are Republicans or Democrats and I don't refer them to the Charity Organization Society, which would investigate their case in a month or two and would decide they were worthy of help about the time they are dead from starvation. I just get [a place to live] for them, buy clothes for them . . . and fix them up till they get things runnin' again."
— George Washington Plunkitt, Tammany Hall precinct captain, 1905
What did Tammany Hall precinct captain Plunkitt expect in return for providing such help for people?
their political loyalty
300
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
From which of the following is this excerpt taken?
The 13th Amendment
300
Sec 7. Be it further enacted, That every civil officer shall, and every person may, arrest and carry back to his or her legal employer any freedman, free Negro, or mulatto who shall have quit the service of his or her employer before the expiration of his or her term of service without good cause...
– Mississippi State Law
How did the state law above impact sharecroppers in the South?
It made it almost impossible for freedmen to escape their debt to plantation owners.
300
What was a negative aspect of the Americanization policy of the late 1880s for Native Americans?
Native Americans saw the survival of their traditional cultures threatened.
300
Which issue is addressed in the cartoon?
The excessive power of big business
300
In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.
-- Walter Rauschenbusch, in his book "Christianity and the Social Crisis" (1907)
On what principle was the Social Gospel movement based?
biblical ideals of charity and justice
400
What was the major reason the Radical Republicans opposed President Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan?
The plan offered amnesty to nearly all Confederates who were willing to swear allegiance to the United States.
400
What was a long term effect of the Jim Crow Laws that were passed in the late 1800s?
They prevented equal treatment of African Americans and white citizens.
400
According to the federal government, what was the objective of the Dawes Act of 1887?
to encourage assimilation of Native Americans into mainstream American culture
400
What was the goal of building the Florida East Coast Railway?
to bring tourists to the luxury hotels built along the Florida coastline
400
How did social reformers in the Progressive Era contrast with the beliefs of Social Darwinists?
Social reformers recognized that people fail due to circumstances beyond their control.
500
Which Reconstruction Plan would southern states find most objectionable?
The Radical Republican's Plan
500
What could be associated with "The Nadir of American Race Relations"?
passage of Jim Crow laws, Black Codes, Literacy Test, Poll taxes, and the KKK.
500
- The passage of the Homestead Act
- The killing of the buffalo
- The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
What was the main effect of the events listed above?
it led to a decline in the population of Native Americans
500
Which economic system does laissez faire favor?
capitalism
500
What role did settlement houses, such as Hull House play during the Progressive Era?
Provider of services to immigrants and urban poor to increase social reform