US History StudyGuide Part2

What labor system for former slaves developed soon after plantation owners reclaimed their land after the Civil War?

Sharecrop system.

Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor called for

Shortening work hours.

Josiah Strong, author of Our Country, believed

The Anglo-Saxon race would "spread itself over the world."

All of the following refer to Plessy v. Ferguson except

The lower court found that segregation was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution even if railroad facilities were substantially equal for both races.

Which amendment to the Constitution officially ended slavery, or "involuntary servitude," in the United States?

Thirteenth Amendment.

What was original intent of the Comstock Law?

To ban the production, distribution, or public display of obscenity.

What was the intent of the Tenure of Office Act?

To prevent the president from firing a cabinet member without consent of the Senate.

The term "disfranchisement" refers to the process by which African Americans were denied the right to

Vote.

President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction required 10 percent of what group to swear future loyalty to the United States?

Voting population of a state in 1860.

How many voters would have had to swear allegiance to the Union under the Wade-Davis Bill?

A majority.

The Panic of 1893 was

A period of economic decline in the United States that included the failure of many American businesses and banks.

All of the following except __________ were used to disfranchise black voters.

Admissions tickets.

What group formed the backbone of the Republican Party in the South during Reconstruction?

African Americans.

In calling for war with Spain in 1898, President McKinley announced that America's war aims included

All of the above.

Progressives can be characterized as

All of the above.

The "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine said that

All of the above.

The Pullman Strike of 1894

All of the above.

The term "Jim Crow" refers to

All of the above.

What was the principal goal of terrorist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan?

All of the above.

What reason did Booth give for his killing of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865?

America had to be saved from "****** equality."

Progressivism was

An alternative option for social change to the more radical forms, such as socialism.

In response to the sinking of the Lusitania, Woodrow Wilson

Called on Congress to declare war on Germany.

"Boss" rule in city governments was possible because

City bosses could trade municipal jobs for votes.

Although the Freedmen's Bureau mostly dealt with labor relations, these often spilled over into matters of

Civil rights.

Black Codes

Confined black freedoms with laws that singled out blacks for unequal treatment.

Battles in the Spanish-American War were fought in

Cuba and the Philippines.

The Supreme Court's 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

Defined the "separate but equal" principle.

Between 1860 and 1898

Each statement is correct.

Unlike their predecessors, progressives were comfortable with

Expanding government power to implement change.

During Reconstruction, southern governments

Extended access to free public schools to African Americans.

Most blacks who held elected office in southern states during Reconstruction

Had been free in the prewar period.

How did President Lincoln dispose of the Wade-Davis Bill?

He used the pocket veto.

What set W. E. B. DuBois apart from the majority of progressives of his time?

He wanted to address the costs of racism in American society.

What was accomplished by the Second Reconstruction Act passed in July 1867?

It ensured black suffrage by placing the army in charge of voter registration.

What did the Reconstruction of Act of March 2, 1867, provide?

It established former Confederate states as territories and divided them into military districts

What activity did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act outlaw?

One company "holding" control over subsidiary companies.

Southerners who collaborated with northerners after the Civil War were known as

Scalawags.

In August of 1914, as war began in Europe, most Americans

elt that America should maintain a neutral role in the conflict.

How did most minstrel shows portray African Americans after the Civil War?

n gross racial stereotypes

Under the sharecrop system,

Landowners provided land, tools, seed, and work animals.

The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibited disfranchisement on account of race, color, or creed.

Between the 1870s and 1900,

Republicans and Democrats had nearly equal electoral strength in presidential elections.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett used which of the following tactics to expose the horrors of lynchings?

Research, exposure in the popular press, and organization of investigators across the nation.

What is meant by the term "redemption"?

Restoration of local, white control in former Confederate states.

Eugene V. Debs was

The president of the American Railway Union.

What prompted moderate Republicans to grow increasingly more radical during Reconstruction?

The violence aimed at freed people.

Progressives who believed that science and God were on their side believed that

Their solutions should be forced on Americans.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History: 1660-1783.