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dc history
chapters 15-18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| General William T Sherman's Special Field Order 115: | set aside the sea islands and forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families |
| How did the emancipation affect the structure of the black family? | Initially, the black family became more like the typical white family, with men as the breadwinners and women as the homemakers. |
| During Reconstruction, the role of the church in the black community: | declined as other black-run institutions became more central in African American life. |
| Howard University is well known as: | a black university in Washington, D.C. |
| For most former slaves, freedom meant: | land ownership. |
| How did the Civil War affect planter families? | For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor. |
| The two maps of the Barrow Plantation Demonstrate: | the African-American commitment to education. |
| The freedmen's Bureau: | made notable achievements in improving African-American education and health-care. |
| Sharecropping: | was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision). |
| The crop-lien system: | kept many white farmers in a state of constant debt and poverty. |
| Andrew Johnson: | lacked Lincoln's political skills and keen sense of public opinion. |
| The southern Black Codes: | allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts. |
| The Civil Right Act of 1866: | defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race. |
| When Congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, he: | stated that blacks did not deserve the right to citizenship. |
| The Fourteenth Amendment: | marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights. |
| In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the __________, which created new state governments and provided to black male suffrage in the south. | Reconstruction At |
| The Fifteenth Amendment: | sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race. |
| During Reconstruction, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: | opposed the Fifteenth Amendment because it did not guarantee female suffrage. |
| Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been: | non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern up-country prior to the Civil War. |
| The Bargain of 1877: | resulted in Hayes agreeing to not having the federal government get involved in state politics. |
| All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Ages EXCEPT: | low tariffs. |
| The _______ made possible the second industrial revolution in America. | railroads |
| The second industrial revolution was marked by: | the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries, |
| BY 1890, the majority of Americans: | worked for wages. |
| In 1883, _________ divided the nation into the four time zones still used today. | the major railroad companies. |
| Thomas Edison: | invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity. |
| In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were: | ways that manufacturers sought to control the marketplace. |
| The first billion-dollar enterprise corporation was: | U.S. Steel. |
| Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller: | built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets. |
| In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis: | focused on the wretched conditions among the urbanpoor. |
| "Bonanza farms": | typically had thousands of acres of land or more. |
| After the Civil War, which of the following became a symbol of a life of freedom on the open range? | cowboys |
| Massive hunting of what animal hurt the Plains Indians? | buffalo |
| Chief Joseph: | wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Perce |
| The Indian victory at little Bighorn: | only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement. |
| What was the aim of boarding schools for Indians? | to civilize the Indians, making them "American" as whites defined the term. |
| What happened to 86 of the 138 million acres of land that had been in Indian possession in Oklahoma in 1887? | They were sold off to white settlers in a series of land rushes. |
| The Ghost Dance: | was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites. |
| Which event marked the end of the Indian wars? | the battle of Wounded Knee. |
| The Plains Indians: | included the Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, and Sioux. |
| Greenbacks: | was the paper money issued by the Union during the Civil War. |
| The theory of Social Darwinism argued that: | the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor. |
| The Social Gospel: | called for an equalization of wealth and power. |
| Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT: | the free and unlimited coinage of silver. |
| The Farmer's Alliance: | sought to improve conditions through cooperatives. |
| The People's Party: | evolved out of the Farmer's Alliance. |
| The populist platform: | called for public ownership of railroads. |
| The severe depression of 1893: | led to increased conflict between capital and labor. |
| The 1894 Pullman Strike: | collapsed when union leaders were jailed. |
| William Jennings Bryan: | ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform. |
| Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus? | blacks |
| Plessy v. Ferguson: | sanctioned racial segregation. |
| At the end of the nineteenth century, lynching: | was an act of violence directed mostly at black men. |
| In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington: | encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation. |
| The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU): | moved from demanding prohibition to pushing for women's suffrage. |
| The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire: | brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation. |
| The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910: | as a way of describing a loosely defined political movement. |
| Newspaper and magazine writers, who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as: | muckrakers |
| Which of the following was a "muckraker"? | Lewis Hine |
| The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was: | Upton Sinclair. |
| Which was the "Ellis Island of the West"? | Angel Island |
| In the early twentieth century, Angel served as the main entry point for immigrants from: | Japan. |
| "Birds of passage" were: | immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland. |
| The term "Fordism": | describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption. |
| Feminism: | sought to attack the traditional roles of sexual behavior for women. |
| Margaret Sanger was a: | birth-control advocate. |
| Jane Addams: | advocated for the working poor. |
| After 1900, the campaign for women's suffrage: | included both middle- and working-class women. |
| The Progressive presidents were: | Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. |
| Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J.P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| The Sixteenth Amendment: | authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax. |
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