Chapter 15-17 ~ US HIST II 1302

Which of the following was a major factor in the creation of a rapid and profound economic revolution in the United States after the Civil War?

Abundant natural resources

Who wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History?

Alfred T. Mahan

Recommendations from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

Build a two-ocean navy, a canal in Central America, and have naval bases in the Pacific and Caribbean (including islands)

What is true about Theodore Roosevelt?

Called President McKinley a pastry, led the Rough Riders, and was the Assistant Secretary

The Open Door Notes were designed to protect ___________ from European imperialism

China

When President Teddy Roosevelt built the Panama Canal, he started by helping Panama break away from _________

Columbia

Crop lien

Credit extended to tenants based on their future crops; high interest rates and the uncertainties of farming often led to inescapable debts

Redeemers

Democratic leaders who supposedly saved the South from Yankee domination

Tenure of Office Act (1867)

Denied the president the power to remove any executive officer who had been previously appointed without the consent of the Senate

What was the significance of the Reconstruction Act of March 1867?

Divides the south into five military districts; black men given vote

American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership

False

The West was a remarkably homogeneous region--only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse

False

With the mechanization of manufacturing, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.

False

Who commanded the American fleet that destroyed the Spanish fleet in the Battle of Manila Bay?

George Dewey

Ku Klux Klan

Group organized in Pulaski, Tennessee (1866) to terrorize former slaves who voted and held political offices during Reconstruction; stressed white, fundamentalist Protestant supremacy

What territories did the U.S. gain as a result of the Spanish-American War?

Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico

What power did the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine assert for the U.S.?

International police power

George Washington's Farewell Address encouraged. . .

Isolationism

Which best describes America's attitude on foreign policy in our first 100 years as a nation?

Isolationism

Sharecropping

It allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker and owner at the end of the year

What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers, women as well as men, blacks along with whites, and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?

Knights of Labor

Which was NOT true about the U.S.S. Maine?

Modern research confirms it was probably destroyed by a Spanish mine

What bedrock American policy warns European nations to leave the Western Hemisphere alone or face US military power?

Monroe Doctrine

In Wabash v. Illinois, this prior ruling was essentially reversed

Munn v. Illinois

In President Andrew Johnson's view, African-Americans ought to play what part in Reconstruction?

No role in shaping policies

the Freedmen's Bureau (1865)

Reconstruction agency established to protect the legal rights of former slaves; assist with their education, jobs, health care, and landowning

Reconcentrados Policy

Relocation of Cuban citizens to concentration camps; destroyed their villages after capture

Black Codes (1865-1866)

Restrict the rights of former slaves; repealed by the Civil Rights Act of 1866

In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping stop a war between what two nations?

Russia/Japan

The Rough Riders and the 10th Black Cavalry had to take Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill so the Americans could capture the Cuban city of __________

Santiago

The phrase "forty acres and a mule" is derived from

Sherman's Field Order 15

What was the main cause of the Spanish-American War?

Spanish policy in Cuba

The poem by Emma Lazarus including "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" is located on which American landmark?

Statue of Liberty

Who sent the Great White Fleet around the world to demonstrate we were a world power?

Teddy Roosevelt

Founded in 1867, this group claimed more than 700,000 members in the mid-1870s, who called on state governments to establish fair freight rates and warehouse charges

The Grange

What event moved the U.S. from an isolationist country with a small military to an interventionist nation with a strong military?

The Spanish-American War

"Scalawags" was a derogatory term used to describe southern white Republicans.

True

Black Codes sometimes assigned black children to work for their former masters without parental consent.

True

By 1890, the majority of the remaining Indian population had been removed to reservations scattered across the western states

True

By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows, and children consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget

True

During Reconstruction, some 2,000 African-Americans held public office, among them fourteen in the U.S. House of Representatives and two U.S. senators.

True

The KKK was founded in 1866 as a secret society and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.

True

The civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the "Second Reconstruction."

True

Who sent 5,000 American troops to Asia to help save US citizens and others during the Boxer Rebellion?

William McKinley

Who ran for President in 1900 on anti-imperialistic ideas?

Williams Jennings Bryan

In the era from 1870 to 1890, the label "the Gilded Age" originally derived from

a derogatory name from literature meaning covered with gold but what lies beneath is of little value

A "carpetbagger" was

a northerner who settled in the South after the war

Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance"?

a pan-Indian movement that involved singing, dancing, and religious observances

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was

an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians

The Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871

defined crimes that deprived citizens of their civil and political rights as federal offenses

In 1890, the distribution of wealth in the United States was. . .

disproportionate, as the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent

One of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

ensure a working system of labor relations between former slaves and former slaveholders

What did three amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee to former slaves shortly after the Civil War?

freedom from slavery; recognition as citizens; and the vote for adult black men

Civil Rights Bill of 1866

guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opposed the Fifteenth Amendment because

it outlawed discrimination in voting based on race but not gender

Civil Rights Act of 1875

law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation

The Black Codes were

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves in the South

The 1887 Dawes Act. . .

led to the loss of tribal lands and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions

By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?

one-third

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

prohibited federal and state governments from denying any citizen the vote because of race

The Bureau of Indian Affairs established boarding schools for the purpose of

removing Indian children from their parents and tribes and assimilating them into "white ways"

Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction era shared the view that

the Union victory created an opportunity to institutionalize the principle of equal rights regardless of race

The Reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Constitution helped to create

the first national biracial democracy in world history

What activity made the postemancipation experience in the United States unique from other societies and became central to the former slaves' desire for empowerment and equality?

the right to vote within to two years of the end of slavery

Elk v. Wilkins (1884) stated that. . .

the rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not apply to American Indians

Black Americans who refused to sign labor contracts to work for whites during Reconstruction

were often arrested and hired out to white landowners

Which of the following were sources of violence in America during the Gilded Age?

white supremacist southern attacks on African Americans

Exaggerating or distorting the news in order to push a certain agenda is called. . .

yellow journalism

In what year did Congress grant citizenship to all Native Americans?

1924