history exam 1

During his time as the head of the American Railway Union, what did Eugene Debs do?

He organized a national strike against Pullman.

Who won the Battle of Bull Run?

confederacy

What city became a major hub on the transcontinental railroad, resulting in its population and importance greatly increasing?

Chicago

What were the terms of the Compromise of 1877?

Hayes was made president, and in exchange, federal troops were removed from the South.

secondary source

a document or written work created after an event exp: textbook, lectures

What did the Knights of Labor do?

all of the above

What was the goal of Black Codes?

all of the above

How was the African American vote suppressed in the "New South"?

all the above

What did the Farmers' Alliance do?

all the above

What kinds of things did William "Boss" Tweed do from Tammany Hall?

all the above

What motivated people to move west?

all the above

What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis"?

all the above

Why did cities become increasingly larger in the second half of the nineteenth century?

all the above

What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?

It outlawed discriminations on voting rights on the basis of race.

What did the Fourteenth Amendment do?

It stated that all former slaves and their future descendants were U.S. citizens.

What was muscular Christianity a response to?

It was a reaction to perceived feminization in the United States.

What was notable about the Battle of Gettysburg?

It was the last Confederate incursion into the north. It was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. It marked a turning point in the war, with the Union now gaining a clear advantage.

What did Jim Crow laws do?

segregated southern society

What did the principal of Taylorism advocate for?

subdivision of labor

What did southern states have to do to be readmitted to the Union, according to Abram Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?

10% of the 1860 population had to take an oath of allegiance to the United States.

What is social Darwinism?

A belief in "survival of the fittest" within industrial society.

primary source

A document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study. example: newspaper, treaties, government proclamations

What were new aspects of popular entertainment in the early twentieth century?

All of the above

Why were the so-called "New Immigrants" discriminated against more than the "Old Immigrants" had been?

All of the above

What was the result of the Haymarket Riot?

Americans began to associate the Knights of Labor and unions with radicalism.

What happened almost immediately following Abraham Lincoln's victory in the Election of 1860?

Eleven southern states seceded from the Union.

What did the Union's First Confiscation Act do?

Escaped slaves were placed in camps and required to work for the Union war effort.

What did the Second Confiscation Act do?

It effectively emancipated enslaves people in territory that came under Union control.

What did Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation do?

It freed slaves in areas under Confederate control.

What was significant about Wounded Knee?

It marked the end of sustained Native American resistance to westward expansion.

Which of the following was part of President Andrew Johnson's plan to readmit Southern states to the Union? Choose ALL that apply:

Southern states had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment. Southern governments had to void their ordinances of secession

What was the main difference between the American Equal Rights Association (AERA) and the National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA) ?

The AERA placed more of an emphasis on black suffrage, while the NWSA placed more of an emphasis on women's suffrage.

What was the outcome of the Red River War?

The Comanche were relocated to Fort Sill.

What were the terms of the Treaty of Bosque Redondo?

The Navajo were allowed to return to their homeland.

What was the result of William Jennings Bryan's attempts to become president?

The Populist platform was absorbed into the other two political parties.

How did the American public react to Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn?

The public wanted a swift military response.

What was the subject matter of Wlid West Shows?

They featured mythologized stock characters from the American West.

Who successfully commercialized electricity?

Thomas Edison

What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and similar organizations?

To use violence to limit Black political involvement.

What did the Dawes General Allotment Act do?

Took tribal lands and gave it to individual Native Americans families.

True or False: From the beginning, Abraham Lincoln and the Union's goal was to emancipate all slaves.

false

True or False: The Freedmen's Bureau was able to successfully redistribute confiscated lands to former slaves.

false

True or False: The federal government's Enforcement Acts successful put an end to groups like the KKK.

false

True or False: Union troops fired the first shots of the Civil War at the Battle of Fort Sumter.

false

What was Chicago's major industry in the second half of the nineteenth century?

meatpacking

Which of the following were part of the Populist Party's platform? Choose ALL that apply:

nationalizing railroad and telegraph, direct election of senators, graduated income tax, monetizing silver

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

outlawed slavery

What were the Cheyenne doing at their camp near Sand Creek when seven hundred militia men killed almost all of them?

preparing to sign a peace treaty

Lincoln won a landslide electoral victory in the Election of 1864. What groups of people voted for him? Select ALL that apply:

radical republicans, union soldiers

What made the American Federation of Labor didn't from the Knights of Labor?

they were less radical