US history EOS
Social Gospel Movement
-provide education and public health services to the poor -improve conditions for the urban poor
Which of the following documents officially ended slavery in the United States?
13th amendment
What constitutional amendment guarantees "equal protection of the laws" ?
14th amendment
First Industrial Revolution
-Steam engine -coal
Compromise of 1850
-admitted California as a free state -organized Utah and N.H without restrictions on slavery -adjusted the Texas/N.H border -abolished slave trade in D.C -established tougher fugitive slave laws -it's passage was hailed as a solution to the threat of national division.
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Declared that all territory north of 36^30^ would become free states,and all territory south of that latitude would become slave states.
-work for the central pacific railroad on the first transcontinental railroad -gentlemen's agreement -exclusion act 1882 -angel island
Asian
In the late 19th century protective tariffs,laissez faire, and subsidized railroads showed the federal government support for....
Economic development
What person played the largest role in populating Florida during the last half of the 19th century?
Henry Flagler
-1907 gentlemen's agreement -nativism -NINA
Immigrants faced discrimination
Which of the following laws completes the diagram ? -Munn v. Illinois 1877 -wabash v Illinois 1886 - ?????
Interstate commerce act
Henry Flagler business enterprise is similar to the business enterprise of which of the following people?
J. D Rockefeller
What industrialist was the founder of the first billion-dollar corporation in the U.S ?
J.P Morgan
What evidence best supports the claim that ending slavery was not the sole cause of the civil war?
Maryland and Delaware remained in the Union
Immigrants are taking jobs away from Americans and should be sent home
Nativist ideas
John D. Rockefeller
Oil industry
The following political party platform from 1892 would most likely appeal to what group of people? -supported William Jennings Bryan for president in 1896 -supported government ownership of railroads -opposed the goal standard -created "farmers alliances" and had political power in western states -supported an eight hour workday
Populists
-support for the 15th amendment -Thaddeus Stevens -opposed Lincoln's 10% plan -views south as conquered territories
Radical Republicans
The above vision reflects the ideas of what group of people? -southern states should be treated as "conquered provinces" -opposed president Lincoln's reconstruction plan -supported civil rights legislations
Radical Republicans
The strong government 1869-1877
Radical reconstruction
-Technological advances -higher crop yields
Reduction in the price of crops
-Freedman needs land and supplies to farm -freedman borrows resources needed to farm Freedman did not earn enough to pay for the resources borrowed
Sharecropping
-general Sherman's March to the sea -Anaconda plan -battle of appomattox
The surrender of the south
-democratic party -graft -Irish immigrants -New York city -William m tweed
The tammany hall political machine
What was the primary cause of all the labor strikes in the list above ?
The wage gap between factory workers and factory owners.
Why did people in the Great Depression call their temporary settlement communities "Hoovervilles"?
They blamed president Hoover for the depression
Why did congress pass laws protecting civil rights during reconstruction?
To abolish black codes in the south
Why did U.S business interests favor overseas expansion in the late 1800s?
To acquire new markets and sources of raw materials
What were the intended goals of the Granger Laws passed during the late 19th century?
To protect the interests of farmers
Was a key goal of the progressive movement ?
To put more political power in the hands of citizens