U.S. History Fall Semester Review
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- Under Radical Reconstruction southern states were going to be divided in _______ military Districts
- 5
- To charge with crimes while in office
- Impeachment
- What was set up to distribute clothing, food, and education for the blacks
- Freedmans Bureau
- White Southerners who cooperated with the newly formed state govt's
- Scalawags
- What ammendment gave black males the right to vote
- 15th Ammendment
- What ammendment Abolished Slavery
- 13th Ammendment
- What ammendment provided citizenship
- 14t Ammendment
- In decades following Reconstruction, whites voting Democratic became knows as
- Carpet Baggers
- Black Codes restricted the freedom of
- African Americans
- Name two famous Radical Republicans
-
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner - What supreme court case upheld seperate but equal facilities
- Plessy Vs. Ferguson
- Under the terms of the _____________ Republican control of the Presidency was not challenged in return for an end to miliary presence in the South
- Compromise of 1877
- What did Radical Reconstruction fail to provide ex-slaves with
- Land
- ____________ was the name of the courthouse that was the site of the surrender of the South after the Civil War
- Appomattox
- Why did the Radical Republicans object to Lincoins reconstructuon plan
- Wasn't Harsh enough to the southern states,let them back in the union to easily
-
Who adopted his plans for Reconstruction
What was the outcome of his impeachment -
Johnson
He remained in office - Former______ Soliders who stayed in the South or returned to the South following the Civil war were known as Carpet Baggers
- Union
- _______ was the battle in PN that proved to be the turning point in war
- Gettysburg
- When all but one of the former Confederate states rejected the __ Ammendment Congress passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867
- 14
- ___ ____ ___ were laws passed after the Civil War that segregated schools and public facilities
- Jim Crow Laws
- _________ was the pan of the federal govt to rebuild and reestablish the state
- Reconstruction
- President Lincoin was assassignated by ____ _____ ____ while attending a play
- John Wilkes Booth
- Who developed usable Barbed Wire
- Joseph Glidden
- Where was George Cluster defeated
- Little Big Horn, Montana
- Name the indian cheif who tried to lead his trible to Canada
- Chief Joseph
- Indian resistance to Whites increased when _________ was a trail that cowboys used to drive cattle to a railroad line for sale
- gold prospectors invaded indian territory
- What was the name of the act that was passed in 1862 that would provide 160 acres of free-land
- Homestead Act
- Shipping station along a railroad line
- Railhead
- The method of extracting mineral ore by hand using simple tools like picks, shovels, panm
- Placer Mining
- The Term ____ _____ refers to an illness that cows contracted during their long cattle drives to northern markets
- Texas Fever
- What name did the first explorers of the Great Plains give the area
- Great American Desert
- Which 2 Developments lead to the downfall of the famous cattle drives
-
Railroads
Barbed Wire - Method of extracting minerals involving digging beneath the surface
- quartz mining
- What qualifications did a person have to meet in order to be considered for the homestead act
-
Head of Household
21 Years Old
American Citizen
Live on the Land for 5 Years - The last indian tragedy occured at
- Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota
- The ______ _____ was a rich deposit of Silver in Nevada
- Comstock lode
- The transcontinental Railroad connected what two states
- Nebraska & California
- A ________ co is one that expands in one area of production by buying out competitors
- Horizontal Integration
- The theory that govt should interfere as little as possible in the nations economy is
- Laissez Faire
- Discovered a way to transmit voices over wire
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Was the Site of the First Oil Well
- Titusville PN
- Brothers that made the first manned power flight in history on the sand of Kitty Hawk
- Wright
- Invented the electric bulb
- Thomas Edison
- Built the Standard Oil Co. into a Giant of American Industry
- Rockefeller
- This man built the U.S. steel into a giant of American Industry
- Carnegie
- Was the site in Utah where two railroads met
- Promontory Pt
- A Co. that controls all processes of its industry is known as
- Vertical Integration
- Highly placed republicans received shares of stock in return for helping the co. avoid an investigation in the
- Credit Moblier Scandal
- Workers were not hired back in 1892 after striking against
- Carnegies Steel Homestead Plant
- A court order demanded at end to the _________ Strike
- Pullman
- Whom did the gov't support in major strikes of the late 1800's
- Employer
- Person that believes that there should be no Gov't
- Anarchist
- A 10% wage cut resulted in the ______ ______ strike
- Great Railroad
- The haymarket Riot incident in 1886 badly hurt the _____ _____ _____'s reputation
- Night of Labor
- Who adapted more easily to life in America, parents or children
- Children
- "New" Immigrants to America came from _______&________ Europe
- Eastern&Southern
- "Old" immigrants came from ______&______ Europe
- Western&Northern
- An institution in a poor neighbohood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care and classes in English were referred to as
- Settlement House