The West
Gilded Age Politics
Reconstruction
Gilded Age Figures
Random Stuff
100
What kind of impact did the Railroad have on the Buffalo population?
Negative, as it allowed hunters to travel freely and hunt more buffalo.
100
What political Party dominated the Gilded Age?
The Republican Party
100
Describe Reconstruction
The South was rebuilt and readmitted to the Union after the Civil War
100
Alexander Graham Bell was credited with which invention?
Telephone
100
Which land grant from the U.S. Government offered 160 acres of public land to settlers who could pay the filing fee and survive the land for 5 years?
Homestead Act
200
Reservation land was typically described as being....
rural, barren, desolate
200
Which President was the first to be impeached in U.S. History?
Andrew Johnson
200
What group used fear and intimidation to keep African Americans from voting?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
200
Which aspect of the Industrial Revolution in America did Cornelius Vanderbilt control?
Railroads
200
What events took place under the Compromise of 1877? (Please name at least two of the three)
Federal troops leave the South, Reconstruction ends,
Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes wins the Presidency
Control of Southern politics went back to Southern Democrats
300
Which of the following is the most accurate description of the differing views between Native Americans and Settlers?
Native Americans saw themselves as part of nature; settlers saw the land as property to own.
300
What was the impact of the 15th Amendment?
Stated that the right to vote cannot by denied because of race
300
What amendment to the Constitution protected the rights of freed slaves by guaranteeing all citizens "equal protection under the law" by granting them citizenship?
14th Amendment
300
Who was the first female self made Millionaire?
Madam C.J. Walker
300
What amendment to the U.S. Constitution freed all slaves?
13th Amendment
400
What was the ultimate reason for the decline of Native American resistance to reservations?
The loss of resources and their traditional way of life
400
Please explain why immigrants came to the United States. (Name at least two please)
Escaping war, persecution or famine in their home countries
Available jobs in America because of Industrialization
Freedoms and rights that they may not have at home
400
What doctrine was established by Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Separate but equal
400
What innovations by John D. Rockefeller revolutionized America and made him the wealthiest man in the world?
standardization of the oil refining industry
400
What as the first immigration station to open in America in 1892?
Ellis Island
500
Describe the lives of the homesteaders.
Hard life, unpredictable weather
Many forced to give up and return back east
500
This is Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated President Garfield after he did not give him a government position in 1881.
What policy change happened after this event?
Government positions were to be awarded based on ability and qualifications.
500
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton was know for leading what group of people to Kansas
Exodusters
500
Andrew Carnegie was credited with utilizing what innovation?
Bessemer Steel Process
500
The Dawes Act of 1887 was an attempt by the federal government to
break up the remaining tribal units by encouraging assimilation into white society.