APUSH Chapter 22-26 Test Review
The major electoral problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
2 election returns, both Democratic and Republican
What were the conditions for workers in the textile mills of the industrializing South?
horrible
The example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated the typical lack
of ethics in the Gilded Age
President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction aimed to
punish confederate leaders
The Credit Mobilier scandal involved
railroad construction kickbacks
The Plains Indians were finally forced to surrender and end their resistance to losing their lands by the coming of
railroads + extermination
During Reconstruction, African American women assumed new political roles which included all of the following except
voting
Many feminist leaders were especially disappointed with the Fourteenth Amendment because it
gave rights to black men not women
The Nez Perce Indians of Idaho were goaded into war when
government put them in reservations
The wild frontier towns where the three major cattle trials from Texas ended were
- Abilene (Kansas) - Ogalalla (Nebraska) - Cheyenne (Wyoming)
fields of enterprise: Carnegie: Rockefeller: Morgan
Carnegie: vertical integration, pools Rockefeller: horizontal integration Morgan: interlocking directorate
A new round of warfare between the Sioux and US Army began in 1874 when
Custer discovered gold
Chronology of: Dawes Act, Oklahoma land rush, Indians granted full citizenship, and Congress restores tribal basis of Indian life
Dawes Act, Oklahoma, Indian citizenship, Congress Indian life restoration
Benjamin Harrison's victory over Grover Cleveland in the election of 1888 was unusual in that
Harrison lost the popular vote
The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open in February 1866 was
Johnson's veto of the bill to extend Freedmen's Bureau
America's first billion-dollar corporation was
US Steel
Know the themes: Lewis Wallace: Horatio Alger: Henry Jame: William Dean Howells:
Wallace: defending Christianity, anti darwin Alger: honesty + hardworkers Jame: dilemma of women Howells: divorce, labor strikes
In seeking congressional approval to enact lower tariffs in 1887, President Grover Cleveland
all choices
Feminist leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony campaigned against Fourteenth Amendment
because all of the above
The intellectual developments that seriously disturbed the churches in the late nineteenth century was the
biology of Charles Darwin
Leftist scholars who found fault with the post Civil War era captains of industry mostly argued that
built power from exploiting workers
Helen Hunt Jackson's novel, Ramona, was centered around
cruel mistreatment of natives
Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were
designed to intimidate African Americans from voting
The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was
dismissal of Secretary of War
What were the common forms of corruption practices by the wealthy railroad barons?
except: employees buying railroad stock
The Indians battled whites for all the following reasons
except: rescue families
What were the various ways southern blacks responded to the prospect of emancipation?
except: slaves claimed sections of land as their own
To assimilate Indians into American Society, the Dawes Act did all the following except
expand tribe's collective land
The success of the public schools in the post Civil War era is best evidenced by
falling illiteracy rate
Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when
federal troops were removed in 1877
For white American treaty makers, Indian tribes were
fiction of white imagination
One of the major reasons why the Knights of Labor fell was
lack of class consciousness
One of these early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was
large department stores
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress passed
laws preventing Chinese immigration
Besides serving immigrants and the poor in urban neighborhoods, settlement workers like Jane Addams and Florence Kelley
lobbied for social reforms like anti sweatshop and child labor laws
Know the relationship between blacks and sharecropping in the years after Reconstruction
mercy of former master, back to slave condition
In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women became
more common
Agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits were called
pools
An epidemic of violent strikes and labor conflict in 1892 led to the prospect of
populists adding workers for support of their farmer base
Most Italian immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920 came to escape
poverty
The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to
take exams
The 19th-Century humanitarians who advocated kind treatment of the Indians, had no respect for
traditional indian culture
The presidential election of the 1870s and 1880s were characterized by
voter turnouts
In the Presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S Grant owed his victory to
votes of former slaves
The move to cities led to, what major and enduring change in American lifestyles?
waste and need for disposal
In post Civil War America, Plains Indians surrendered their lands only when
would be left alone and given supplies