U.S. History

Which of the following was NOT a cause of debt for farmers in the mid and late in late 1800s?

Banks forclosing on farm mortgages.

Inventors Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse made the use of electricity safer and less expensive. What was the most important effect of their innovations?

The use of electricity became widespread in businesses and homes, changing American life completely.

How did the farmers fight the negative encomic cycle that trapped them?

They organized into groups such as the Grange and Farmers' Alliance to fight for reforms.

Which of the following statements about the Underground Railroad is supported by the map?

Routes originated in the slave states.

What system came about in the south when freed African Americans could not buy their own farmland?

Sharecropping

What was the effect of the Thirteenth Amendment passed by Congress in 1865?

Slavery was abolished in the United States.

Which technologies helped settlers establish farms in the Great Plains?

Steel plow, windmill, barbed wire, reaper

This quote was made in reference to what Constitutional amendment?

The 15th amendment, which states that no one can be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Which of the following was the most important result of the completion of the transcontinental railroad?

The East and West Coasts were linked, and western lands became more easily accessible.

Which of the following greatly expanded slavery's reach and intensified the sectional disagreements over slavery?

The Lincoln-Douglas debates for the Illinois senate race 1858

Which of the following contributed to the immense industrial boom known as the Industrial Revolution?

Abundance of natural resources, government support for business, increasing urban population.

Which of the following led to the passage of the Unterstate Commerce Act in 1887?

Abuses of the railroad owners as railroads increased throughtout the United States

What was the major reason for the explosion of the cattle ranching from the 1870s to the 1890s?

Available land because of the removal of Native Americans.

What were the Jim Crow laws?

Harsh laws enacted by white southerners to deny African-Americans thier rights.

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau established in 1865?

Help black and white southerners uprooted by the Civil War.

Which of the following was NOT an issue that divided the Republicans during the early reconstruction years?

How lenient the approach of Reconstruction should be.

Which of the following was NOT a reason for westward expansion during the 1800s?

Hunters wanted the furs that hides of the buffalo could provide.

Why was the Battle of Gettysburg significant?

It marked the turning point of the Civil War.

According to the map, where was iron and steel a leading industry?

Mid-Atlantic and Midwest

The intersection of which two constructions made the great cattle drives possible?

The cattle trails and the railroads.

What practice is symbolized by the huge figures in the back row of this cartoon?

The formation of trusts from competing conpanies to control an industry

What concept is a result of the Populist Party platform?

The government is responsilble for reforming social injustices.

How did the open hearth process of manufacturing steel lead to the skyscraper?

The process cheaply produced strong, light steel which designer William Le Baron Jenny used to construct frames capable of supporting thousands of pound of weights.

What was a major aim of the Populist Party?

To remove the burden of debt from farmers and other workers.

Which of the following was NOT a result of the battle of Antietam?

Union nurse Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross to care for Union soldiers.