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| Who were the leaders of the Southern political system prior to the Civil War? | Planters/Plantation owners |
| dividing work up into simple jobs done by individual workers is known as? | Division of Labor |
| What was Abraham Lincoln’s approach to the South at the end of the Civil War | The South should be treated with kindness and justice |
| A lasting effect of the Freedmen’s Bureau was? | educational opportunity |
| What was the purpose of black codes? | to control former slaves |
| What did the 13th Amendment do? | abolished slavery |
| What does the 14th Amendment guarantee to citizens? | equal protection of the law |
| What was the purpose of the 15th Amendment? | to protect the voting rights of African-American men |
| Why was the Ku Klux Klan formed? | to return white Democrats to power |
| Why did Southern Democrats pass Jim Crow laws? | to separate African-Americans and whites in public life |
| How did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson? | separate but equal public facilities ARE constitutional |
| What was the effect of Southern poll tax laws? | African-Americans were denied voting rights |
| Southern segregation pushed African-Americans to move. What pulled them to other parts of the country? | the hope of better opportunities |
| Why did Congress believe it was necessary to establish military districts in the South during Reconstruction? | to oversee the formation of legal governments in the South |
| Which group would disagree with this statement? Owning a plot of land provides a sense of freedom and opportunity.... Texas rancher or a European settlers or the U.S. government or an American Indians E. I don’t know | American Indian |
| What were the effects of the Homestead Act | an increase in U.S. farms, an increase in railway lines, a decrease in American Indian land |
| What ethnic group was most responsible for the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad? | Chinese |
| How did land subsidies help complete the Transcontinental RR? | enticed railroad companies to take on the transcontinental railroad project, and make $ by selling off land not used |
| Who was most negatively affected by the Transcontinental Railroad? | Plains Indians |
| How did mining change the West? | by opening up areas to new settlement |
| What is a “long drive”? | the movement of cattle to the rail lines |
| Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, what was promised to American Indians? | land in the Great Plains |
| Which of these changed federal policy toward American Indians? | settlement of the West by white settlers |
| What is the significance of the Battle of the Little Big Horn? | It was the last major battle between the army and American Indians |
| How do you best describe the economic policy known as laissez-faire | government non-interference with business |
| What is an entrepreneur? | a successful business owner |
| How were farms affected by the growth of big business? | New machinery provided farms a greater crop yield |
| Which of these is an important aspect of industrialization: government-owned businesses or machine-made products or handmade goods | machine-made products |
| Who was responsible for developing the U.S. steel industry? | Andrew Carnegie |
| How did Thomas Edison improve quality of life in U.S. cities? | by creating an electrical distribution system |
| What was the purpose of the business organization known as the trust? | to control prices |
| John D. Rockefeller was a giant in which industry? | oil |
| How did monopolies threaten the free-enterprise system? | by eliminating competition, which helps keep prices lower |
| Which of these was an effect of the rapid growth of cities due to industrialization?: crowded tenement housing or immigration restrictions or improved city services or high unemployment | crowded tenement housing |
| Who led the labor called the American Federation of Labor? | Samuel Gompers |
| What was the outcome of the Homestead Strike? | the union collapsed in defeat after violence erupted |
| Labor unions were organized to represent the interests of: | the factory workers |
| What did the U.S. offer immigrants that they could not get in their homeland? | jobs |
| What did assimilation require of immigrants? | adapting to the American way of life |
| Between 1880-1920, Europeans came to the U.S. through? | Ellis Island, New York |
| Why were U.S. immigrants often met with resentment and discrimination? | people thought they took away jobs from citizens |
| Why did many Jews emigrate from eastern Europe? | to escape religious persecution |
| Which of these would not be a reason for denying an immigrant from entering the U.S.?: inability to speak English or failure to pass a health exam or inability to pay the entrance fee or failure to have a permanent job | failure to pay entrance fee |
| Which of these is true about most immigrants to the U.S.?: they fit in very easily or they helped build the economy or they offered their skills but demanded high wages or they earned a lot of money and returned to their homeland | they helped build the American economy |
| Why did immigrants form ethnic neighborhoods? | they were not always accepted elsewhere |
| Which of these was a result of immigration in the U.S.?: cultural diversity or religious freedom or high-rise buildings or public school systems | Cultural diversity |
| To separate people based on race; like separate schools for African-Americans and whites is called? | segregation |
| . In 1848 the Seneca Falls Convention was held for: | Women's rights, mainly the right to vote in ALL ELECIONS |
| The name given to the railroad the spanned all the way across the United States was? | Transcontinental Railroad |
| This economic system, based on private ownership of business and industry is called? | Capitalism |
| Abraham Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan offered amnesty to Southerners who accepted emancipation and? | pledged an oath of loyalty |
| Radical Republicans wanted to do what to the South?: | punish rebellious Southern states |
| People who farm on rented land (mainly former slaves) are called: | tenant farmers |
| The amendment that granted suffrage to all American males over 21 was:? | the 14th Amendment |
| The Freedmen’s Bureau main function was to : | assistance for former slaves |
| Southerners who favored economic development of the South and joined Republican governments were called? | scalawags |
| Under the Homestead Act, a family had to improve the land and live on it for how many years?: | 5 |
| . Women were granted the right to vote by which amendment? | 19th |
| What is a tariff? | a tax on goods imported from outside the United States |
