Civil War
What is one ADVANTAGE, of EACH, the North and South in the Civil War?
Northern Advatanges:
More people, factories, population, railroads, etc...
Southern Advantages:
Better generals, didn't have to advance, more agriculture, etc...
When was Reconstrcution?
Union Victory-1877
A system, known as the spoils system, in which political parties granted jobs and favors to party regulars who delivered votes on election day
Patronage
Cholera/Typhoid/Smallpox spreading, near extinction of the bison, and warfare are all ways that increased white settlement in the West accelerated the fate of what group living there?
Native Ameicans
Where was the capital of the Union and where was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Union: Washington D.C.
Confederacy: Richmond
Name of a Union General's military campaign during the Civil War that blasted through Georgia and ended in Savannah
Sherman's March to the Sea
How did Southern governments (to an extent) restore the Antebellum South (pre-Civil War) society during the Reconstrution years?
Black Codes, Segregation, Poll Restrictions, Sharecropping, ...
What party held the platforms/goals of:
-Inflation through coinage of silver/paper
-Income tax push
-Shorter workday (8-10 hours)
-Immigration Restriction
Populist Party
Why was the mining industry so important to the overall development of the West?
Meeting at Promontory, Utah, these TWO railroad companies linked up, which signaled the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869.
Union Pacific & Central Pacific Railroads
What legislation did Lincoln pass during the Civil War that changed the direction of the war more towards the decision of slavery?
Emancipation Proclamation
What ended Reconstruction in the South?
Compromise of 1877
Who introduced the practice of interlocking directorates?
J.P. Morgan
The acquiring of this territory (now a U.S. state) yielded massive seals, walrus, furs, fish, and gold that made the land highly profitable in the late 1800's.
Alaska
What system allotted land with designated boundaries to Native American tribes in the West, beginning in the 1850's and ending with the Dawes Act?
Who were Copperheads?
Peace Democrats who openly obstructed the war through attacks against the draft, against Lincoln, and especially against emancipation
Passed in 1869 and ratified in 1870, This ammendment gave African-Americans males the right to vote
15th Ammendment
How did immigration from across the pond contribute to the rapid industrial growth seen in the U.S. during the late 19th century?
Immigrants supplied the manual labor needed for monopolies like steel, oil, and railroad production.
The chance of severe drought and likely conflict with Indian tribes made the Homestead Act seem like WHAT to most Eastern city dwelling Americans?
gamble/risk
What was Abraham Lincoln's "10 percent" Reconstruction plan?
The proposition that a state be readmitted to the Union once 10 percent of its voters had pledged loyalty to the United States and promised to honor emancipation.
What's one "cost" of the Civil War that plagued the United States at the conclusion of the war and years beyond?
-600,000 men died in action or disease
-2% of the nation's population perished
-America lost young manhood and potential great leadership
-$15 billion in military debt
-Blasted lives, Bitter memories, and Burning hates
-Lincoln's assassination
What methods did the KKK use to try and achieve their goal of white supremicy?
Genocide, robbing, whipping, destroying African-Americans homes/lives, trickery, unfair literacy tests, control the polls,....
Although women benefited from their new economic and social chances during the Gilded Age, what was one problem associated with them getting jobs?
Delayed-marriage, smaller families, long hours, dangerous working conditions, earned less than men,....
What's one method used to assimilate natives into "white culture/way of life"?
Anything along the lines of conversion to christianity for food on resvs, wipe out many tribes/families, separate Indians into parcels of land for farming, or act like the "white people" concept for benefits to natives
Name the presidents (in order) from 1865-1897
Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland, McKinely