EXAM 1: Fredrick Jackson Turner & the Frontier thesis

only ___% of all farmers obtained property in this way (homestead act)

10

__ Amendment is a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.

14

the __ amendment prohibited the federal & state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote because of race

15

_____________ ______________ implemented the forced removal of native americans out west (trail of tears)

Andrew Jackson

_________ bureau announced the Frontier was closed because they considered the area settled - 2.5 white people lived there by square mile

Census

_______ ______ ____ of 1866 is a measure against the Black Codes to reinforce black rights to citizenship.

Civil Rights Bill

the _________ ______________ Act bill promised Indians tracts of land to farm in order to assimilate them into white culture. The bill was resisted, uneffective, and disastrous to Indian tribes

Dawes Severalty

the _____________ Bureau was an agency established by congress to attempt to establish a working free labor system

Freedmens

the _________ Thesis is the argument by Frederick Jackson Turner that the frontier experience helped make American society more democratic; emphasized cheap, unsettled land and the absence of a landed aristocracy.

Frontier

________________ is a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office

Impeachment

_________ v US was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of the Major Crimes Act of 1885. This Congressional act gave the federal courts jurisdiction in certain cases of Indian-on-Indian crimes, even if the crimes were committed on an Indian reservatio

Kagma

____________ Land is the possessory title to 40 acres, gave former slaves small plots of land

Sherman

__________ S. Grant won the presidential election in 1868

Ulysses

________ ______ were laws passed by the southern governments that attempted to regulate the lives of former slaves

black codes

blacks abandoned white controlled religious institutions to create ___________ of their own

churches

political _____________ is a conquest and control of culturally different peoples, who are are so dissimilar that they cannot be easily incorporated but must be ruled as subjects outside the ordinary political process

colonialism

under cop lien, high interest rates & the uncertainties of farming often led to unescapable _____

debts

black codes ____________ blacks the right to testify against whites, to serve on a jury, to vote & serve in militias

denied

Chief Justice John Marshall said Indian nations should be viewed as domestic ______________ nations

dependent

the 14th amendment ______ grant blacks the right to vote

didn't

________________ means to set free (slaves)

emancipate

Freedmen's Bureau agents were supposed to _____________ schools, provide aid to the poor/aged, settle disputes between white & blacks & secure equal treatment before the courts

establish

worlds _____ became an important way to connect people - chicago

fairs

in 1865 Andrew Johnson ordered nearly all land in federal hands to be returned to its ___________ owners (kicking blacks off land, specifically Sherman land.)

former

black codes _________ blacks rights such as legalized marriage, ownership of poverty & limited access to the courts

granted

The Bureau was very successful in helping finance educational activities & ________ _____

health care

fredrick jackson turner is a ____________ & became a household name due to a paper

historian

the _______________ act (1862) provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration. - pay $10 registration fee

homestead

Frontier has always had a ______ quality to it in american history

mythic

another Homestead Act problem was Turner assumed this land was unsettled even though the land was already occupied by ___________ _____________

native americans

Only 1 of 9 acres allocated under Homestead Act ends up in the hands of individual ___________

pioneers

people say the frontier is a safety valve _____________________

psychologically

the __________________ act temporarily divided the south into 5 military districts & called for the creation of new state governments

reconstruction

______________ is a system that allowed each black family to rent a part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker & owner at the end of the year

sharecropping

__________________ guaranteed the planters a stable resident labor force

sharecropping

whites treated indian nations as nations and didn't question their _________________, why they tried to make treaties with them

sovereignty

Chicago Worlds Fair celebrated ___________________ advances

technological

congress adopted the ________ __ _______ act (1867) which barres the president from removing certain officeholders including cabinet members, without the consent of the senate

tenure of office

_____________ steven's most cherished aim was to confiscate the land of disloyal planters & divide it among former slaves & northern migrants to the south

thaddeus

eventually the dire poverty of the black community would compel a far higher proportion of black women than white women to go to work for _____

wages

the Frontier thesis is _______ because it did not function as a safety valve since it costed a lot of money

wrong