Civil War
What act used popular sovereignty to determine the slavery question in remaining territories of Louisiana Purchase, reopening the slavery issue there?
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
What was one goal of government-operated Native American boarding schools in the early 20th century?
To assimilate Native American children by indoctrination (brainwashing) through removing them from their culture, isolating them and systematically stripping them of their belief systems.
Why were post Civil War farmers loosing profits?
High transportation costs, Non-regulation from the government over price caps/ over production of crops, High interest rates from banks made paying off debts near impossible.
Why did Jane Addams establish settlement houses?
Poor illiterate immigrants were not getting adequate help in getting settled and lack appropriate housing conditions.
What role did the federal government play in increasing sectional tensions prior to the Civil War?
The ongoing power struggle over voting dominance between slave owning whites and white northern industrialists.
What was the primary purpose for creating the native American reservation system?
To remove Native Americans from desirable lands.
What movement was started by the Patron of Husbandry?
The Granger Movement.
What types of support was offered at Hull House in Chicago?
Housing, medical care, recreations programs, English classes, hot lunches and child care.
What was the effect of the compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act on the United States before the Civil war?
Disputes about the status of slavery in the new states fueled conflicts between the North and the South.
What did the Homestead act and the Dawes Act have in common?
Both acts allowed the government to force Native Americans off their lands and be able to sell those lands to white farmers moving West.
What solution did farmers have to battle the economic challenges they faced?
The Grangers formed buying and selling cooperatives; they also demanded state regulation of railroad rates and grain elevator fees.
How did dettlement houses affect society during the late ninteenth century?
They increased public awareness of important issues related to poverty and provided support from middle class citizens.
Which issue caused a conflict within the Republican Porty immediately after the Civil War?
The issue of readmitting the southern states.
What was the overall impact of Westward Expansion on the Native American population?
Native Americans faced the removal of all of their rights, even as tribes to negotiate or make treaties. They were stripped of their children, who where taught English and indoctrinated into Christianity. Native Americans were dehumanized and subject to not having rights as a citizen.
Why would farmers support the Populist Party?
Farmers needed regulation of transportation costs.
Which was a reason for increased public distrust of labor unions during the late 1800s?
The belief that labor unions supported a radical socialist agenda.
Why might some of the colleges the Freedmen's Bureau established during reconstruction of closed after reconstruction?
The Great Migration drained former slave populations that would attend those schools and because many former slaves had to make money and survive leaving higher education a luxury to most.
Which American Constitutional Amendment specifically excluded Native Americans as having equal rights under law?
The 14th Amendment.
After the death of which robber baron would railroad shipping rates finally be brought under regulation?
Vanderbilt
What was the purpose of the Muck Rackers?
Muck Rackers were radical citizens who wanted to see social change and were willing to expose powerful people to do it.