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Economics Review Sheet
African Americans Review Sheet
Trigger Questions
Before 1895
After 1865
100
In 1869 this union was formed to organize both skilled and unskilled workers. It called for higher wages, equal pay for men and women, and an eight-hour working day.
The Knights of Labor
100

Congress passed this law that made it easier for Southern Black Americans to vote. It also banned the use of literacy tests as a requirement to vote. 

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Note: The 50% threshold rule was ruled to be unconstitutional in 2013 in Shelby County. 

100
This was the result of the fact that relatively few second-generation Puritans were willing to join the church. It was a sign of the declining religious fervor among the Puritans.
The Halfway Covenant
100
France decided to aid the North American colonies in their war for independence primarily because France a) was working to establish democratic rule in European countries b) saw the war as an opportunity to end the international slave trade c) wanted to weaken the British empire d) was allied with Spain, which had already joined the colonists’ cause d) had long been the primary trading partner of the North American colonies
c) wanted to weaken the British empire
100
The 1962 book that helped launch the national environmental movement was a) James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time b) Michael Harrington’s The Other America c) Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique d) Jack Kerouac’s On The Road e) Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
e) Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
200
This 1947 law gave states the right to pass right-to-work laws. These laws prohibit unions from requiring employers to make union membership a condition of employment. It was passed over President Truman’s veto.
The Taft-Hartley Act
200

This organization organized the Freedom Rides to protest continued segregation on interstate transportation. Riders were greeted with riots, beatings, and firebombings. 

CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

200
The cry “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute,” was a response to this event.
The XYZ Affair, 1798
200
British colonists in North America objected to the Stamp Act primarily because it a) threatened the free press b) disrupted trade with the West Indies c) closed the colonial courts d) enriched corrupt officials e) taxed them without their consent
e) taxed them without their consent
200
President Theodore Roosevelt addressed all of the following issues during his presidency EXCEPT a) unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry b) monopolization and consolidation in the railroad industry c) railroad freight rates d) insider trading on the stock market e) unsafe drug products
d) insider trading on the stock market
300
This feeble 1887 law was the first federal law to attempt to regulate business for the public good.
Interstate Commerce Act
300

This woman, nicknamed The General by John Brown, escaped slavery in 1849.  

Harriet Tubman

300
These were Jefferson’s and Madison’s responses condemning the Alien, Alien Enemies, Sedition, and Naturalization acts as unconstitutional. They made the argument that the states were superior to the federal government and could, therefore, declare federal laws unconstitutional.
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 1798
300
Which of the following was true of colonial New England? a) It consisted of loosely organized communities spread some distance apart. b) Its economy was dependent on large-scale farming and trading. c) Life was centered in clustered villages with farmland surrounding the villages. d) Most people lived in large cities. e) Villages and small towns were tightly organized around an artisan community.
c) Life was centered in clustered villages with farmland surrounding the villages.
300
City bosses and urban political machines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did which of the following? a) They enabled the urban middle class to participate more effectively in politics. b) They provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for political support. c) They encouraged racial integration of residential neighborhoods. d) They discouraged railroad and highway construction to prevent people from moving out of urban areas. e) They promoted prohibition and the abolition of prostitution.
b) They provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for political support.
400
This law helped to fuel the post-WWII economic boom by increasing the demand for housing and producing a better-educated workforce.
The GI Bill (The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944)
400

Name the Reconstruction Amendments AND briefly describe what they did. 

13th Amendment - Bans slavery 

14th Amendment - Birthright citizenship, equal protection of the law, due process of the law, etc. 

15th Amendment - Voting rights for all men

400
In addition to William Crawford, these were the three other major candidates running in the election of 1824, an election finally decided by the House of Representatives after what one losing candidate condemned as a “corrupt bargain.”
Clay, Jackson, and John Quincy Adams
400
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 did all of the following EXCEPT a) create a government that would be satisfactory to both slave and free states b) create a government that would be satisfactory to both large and small states c) create a strong central government that would not threaten the sovereignty of the states d) establish a balance of power between the three branches of the national government e) determine provisions to be included in the Bill of Rights
e) determine provisions to be included in the Bill of Rights
400
In the last half of the nineteenth century, the New South advocates supported a) elimination of convict leasing b) expansion of southern industry c) creation of a southern literature critical of the Old South d) elimination of Jim Crow segregation e) limitation on West Indian migration to the United States
b) expansion of southern industry
500
This 1842 Massachusetts case held that it was not inherently illegal for workers to organize a union or try to compel recognition of that union by means of a strike.
Commonwealth v. Hunt
500

This organization was founded in 1905 by WEB DuBois and other civil rights leaders. The group demanded immediate racial equality and opposed all laws that treated Black Americans differently.

The Niagara Movement (would later lead to the creation of the NAACP in 1909)

500

Because of their early adoption of many elements of white culture, such as courts and a formalized code of laws, schools, and Christian churches, these were known as the Five Civilized Tribes.

Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes

500
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the central and western areas of New York were known as the “burned-over district” because a) of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening b) terrible fires had followed the clear-cut logging by pioneers in that part of the state c) the area had not recovered from the devastation of the War of 1812 d) American Indian settlements had been completely destroyed as settlers moved in and took over the land e) the region’s economy had never revived after the hardships that followed the Whiskey Rebellion
a) of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening
500
African Americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start anew in Kansas were known as a) exodusters b) homesteaders c) scalawags d) jayhawkers e) the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance
a) exodusters