Review - Chapter 15, 16, 17

Farmers believed that their plight derived from what?

1. High freight votes charged by railroads 2. Excessive interest rates for loans from bankers 3. Low prices 4. The fiscal policy that reduced the supply of merry in the economy

What were the facts about the Haymarket affair?

1. bomb exploded killing a police officer 2. employees took the opportunity to point the labor movement as a dangerous and un-American force peace to venter

What opened the door to voting restrictions not based on race?

15th Amendment

Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus?

African Americans

They built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets who were they?

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller

Who lacked Lincoln's political skills and keen sense of public opinion?

Andrew Johnson

During Reconstruction, Elizabeth Cady Staton and Susan B. Anthony did what?

Approved the 15th amendment because it did not guarantee female suffrage

The Civil Rights Act of 1866?

Became the first major law in American History to be passed over a presidential web

Why was Andrew Johnson acquitted on charges of impeachment?

Because Johnsons lawyers assented moderate Republicans that he would be home for the rest of his terms

Why did President James Buchanan replace Utah's territorial governor Brigham Young with a non-Mormon appointee in 1857?

Because it became know that work at federal judges in Utah was being obstructed.

Why do Americans refer to the 1890's as the "Women's Era"?

Because women's economic opportunities and roles in public life expanded.

The black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of freedom?

Blacks focused on family and looked for family members who have been separated during the slave era

_______________ typically had thousands of acres of land or more.

Bonanza Farms

Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policy emphasized?

Borders of most white southerners

A person from the northern states who went to the south after the civil war to profit from the Reconstruction by taking advantage of the situation during this time politically and financially?

Carpet Baggers

During Reconstruction, who enjoyed new found prosperity as merchants traded more frequently with the North?

Carpet Baggers

What were the Indians tribes that were considered the Plains Indians?

Cheyenne, Kiowa, Sioux, one other that starts with a C

He wanted freedom for his tribe the Nez Perce:

Chief Joseph

After the Civil War, what became a symbol of a life of freedom on the open range?

Cowboys

The most ambitious, but least successful, of the Radical Republicans aims was?

Defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race

Freedom for slaves meant?

Escaping the numerous injustice of slavery

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis?

Focused on the wretched conditions among the Urban poor.

The civil war affect planter families how?

For the first, some of them had to do physical labor

When Congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, he what?

He stated that blacks did not deserve the right to citizenship

Black officeholders during Reconstruction?

Helped ensure a degree of farmers in tearful of African Americans citizens

Who were the first two blacks U.S. senators?

Hirman Revels and Blanche Bruce

Black university in Washington, D.C. & Who was it named after?

Howard University, General Howard

Thomas Edison?

Invented, among other things, as system for generations and distributing electricity

This was a secret society organized after the civil war to threaten freedmen and reassert white supremacy by means of violence what was this called?

Ku Klux Klan ( KKK )

The severe depression of 1893?

Led to increased conflict between capital and labor

The Populist relied on who?

Mary Elizabeth League

What hurt the plains Indians?

Massive hunting of buffalo.

After the Civil War, what happened in regards to religion?

Most blacks also left white churches and established their own churches

Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been?

On slave holding white framers from the southern up county prior to the civil war

_______ emerged from the Farmers alliance in the 1890's

Peoples Party

It was hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South?

Public Schools

Who embraced the principle of equal rights for all?

Radical Republicans

The _______ made possible the second industrial revolution in America

Rail Roads

In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the _____, which created new state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the south.

Reconstruction Act

The period after the Civil War, 1865 - 1877, was called what?

Reconstruction period

Who claimed in the 1870's to have saved the white south from the corruption and misgovernment of northern and blacks officials?

Redeemers

The Bargain of 1877?

Resulted in Hayes agreeing to not having toe federal government got involved in state politics

In the case Plessy vs. Ferguson what did this case do?

Sanctioned racial segregation

In 1875, when violence erupted in Mississippi in regards to blacks voting, the Grant administration?

Showed no desire to get involved

_______ was preferred by African Americans to gang labor

Slave Cropping

The theory of _______ argued that the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor.

Social Darwinism

Who desired Public education in the South during Reconstruction?

Southern Republicans

___________ was undermining fair competition in the marketplace was the criticism Demarest Lloyd leveraged against Rockefeller against common wealth (1892).

Standard Oil.

With the beginning of Radical Reconstruction, southern African Americans in the late 1860's and early 1870's took direct action to remedy long standing grievances. These actions included what?

Stating their claim to equal citizenship

The 15th amendment sought to guarantee what?

That one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race

By 1890, the majority of Americans?

The Acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and rail road industries

The two maps of the Barrow Plantation demonstrate?

The African American commitment to education

What class lived in desperate conditions?

The American Working Class

It was called the first modern presidential campaign?

The Election of 1896

_______ made notable achievements in improving African - Americans education and health care.

The Freedmen's Bureau

This was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites?

The Ghost Dance

They imposed racial order?

The Redeemers

Right after the impeachment vote on Andrew Johnson what happened?

The Republicans nominated Grant for president

_______ allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts.

The Southern Black Codes

The second industrial revolution was marked by?

The acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries

How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?

The black family became more likely the typical white family, with men as the bread winners and women as the home makers

The silver issue Refers to what?

The fight to increase the money supply by maintain silver and money

In 1900, most of the nearly 5 million women who worked for wages worked in what?

The garment industry and as domestic laborers.

What did the freedmen request in their " Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson " in 1865?

The right to purchase a homestead

What declined as other black - run institutions became more central in African - American life?

The role of the church in the black community

What was the ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) case?

The supreme court ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations were constitutional.

Federal troops used in the Pullman Strike to do what?

To help suppress the strikes on behalf of the owners

The first billion dollar enterprise corporation was?

U.S. Steel

How did the whites want to civilize the Indians?

Was the aim of boarding schools for Indians.

In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were?

Ways that manufactures sought to control the market place

Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives. What did he do to cause this?

When he alleged, violated the Fence of Office Act

He believed social classes owed each other nothing at all.

William H. Summer

He ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform. Who was he?

William Jennings Bryan

He argued in favor of the gold standard?

William McKinely

The American Federation of labors Founder Samuel Gompers used the idea of "Freedom of contact" to?

argue against interference by judges with workers right to organize unions

The 1894 Pullman Strike?

collapsed when under leaders were jailed

The Dawes Act of 1887 did what?

divides tribal kinds into powers of bad for Indian families, and sought to break up the tribal system.

The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi west was?

dramatic as an agricultural empire grew.

In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington did what?

encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation.

The Indian victory at Little Bighorn?

only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.

________ called for public ownership of railroads

populist platforms

The farmers alliance did what?

sought to improve conditioning through cooperatives

This marked the end of the Indian wars?

the battle of Wounded Knee

The Haymarket affair?

was provoked by the 1886 bombing at a Chicago labor rally.

What happened to 86 of the 138 million acres of land that had in Indian possession in Oklahoma in 1887?

were sold off to white settlers in a land