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Sherman's special field order 15 |
Set aside the Sea Islands and 40 acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families |
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Describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of freedom |
Blacks focus on family and looks for family members who had been separated from them during the slavery era |
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after the Civil War what happened in regards to religion |
African Americans started their own churches |
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Anything less than __ would betray the civil wars meaning, black spokesmen insisted |
Full citizenship |
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For most former slaves, freedom meant |
Land ownership |
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The freedmen's Bureau |
Made notable achievements in improving African-American education & Healthcare |
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Sharecropping |
Was preferred by African Americans to gang labor |
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During Reconstruction, southern cities |
Enjoyed new found prosperity as merchants traded more frequently with the north |
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To replace the freedmen in the South after the civil war.... |
Laborers were brought from China |
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Southern Black Codes |
Allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts |
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Radical Republicans |
Embraced the principle of equal rights for all |
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The most ambitious, but least successful, of the Radical Republicans aims was |
Land reform |
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When Congress sent Andrew Johnson the civil rights bill of 1866 he |
Stated that blacks did not deserve the right to citizenship |
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The 14th amendment |
Marked the most important change in the US Constitution since the Bill of Rights |
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The 15th amendment |
Guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage right based on race |
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During Reconstruction, Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony |
Opposed the 15th amendment |
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Hiram Revels & Blanche Bruce |
The first two black US senators |
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Southern Republicans during Reconstruction |
Established the South's first state supported school |
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The enforcement acts were designed to |
Stop the activities of terrorist groups |
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Who claimed in the 1870s to have saved the white cells from the corruption and misgovernment of northern and black officials |
Redeemers |
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The US Supreme Court ruled in the slaughterhouse cases that |
Most rights of citizens are under the control of state governments |
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With the beginning of radical reconstruction Southern African Americans took direct action that included |
Staking their claim to equal citizenship |
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The election of 1876 |
Involved disputed votes in Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana |
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The bargain of 1877 |
Resulted in Hayes agreeing to not having the federal government get involved in state politics |
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Didn't contribute to the explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age |
Low tariffs |
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By 1890, the majority of Americans |
Worked for wages |
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Statement that best summarizes the reasons for the troubling of railroad track miles in the US between 1860 and 1890 |
Private investment and massive grants of land and money by federal state and local governments spurred the building |
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In the 19th century, pools, trust, and mergers were |
Ways Manufacturers sought to control the marketplace |
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One significant economic impact of the Second Industrial Revolution was |
Frequent and prolonged economic depression |
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in how the other half lives, Jacob |
Focused on the wretched conditions among the urban poor |
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The Indian victory at Little Bighorn |
Only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement |
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What was the aim of boarding schools for Indians? |
To civilize the Indians, making them Americans as whites defined the term |
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The Dawes Act of 1887 |
Divided tribal lands into parcels of land for Indian families |
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What happened to 86 of the 138 million acres of land |
Sold off to white settlers in a series of land rushes |
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The economic development of the American West was based on |
Lumber, mining industries, tourism, and farming |
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Which event marked the end of the Indian Wars? |
The Battle of Wounded Knee |
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Elections during the Gilded Age |
Were closely contested affairs |
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The Civil Service Act 1883 |
Created a merit system for government workers |
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The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to |
Ensure that railroads charged Farmers and Merchants reasonable and fair rates |
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The theory of social Darwinism argued that |
The theory of evolution applied to humans |
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The Knights of Labor |
Was an inclusive organization that advocated reforms |
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Who insisted that freedom and spiritual self development... |
Walter Rauschenbusch |
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The social gospel |
Called for an equalization of wealth and power |
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The "Christian lobby" |
Sought more to legislate individual morality |
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Farmers believe that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT |
The free and unlimited coinage of silver |
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Which statement about the People's Party is False? |
it emerged as an urban, middle-class vehicle for social, economic, and political reform |
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What was NOT part of the Populist platform? |
higher tariffs |
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How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894? |
to help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners |
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The silver issue |
refers to the fight to increase the money supply by minting silver money |
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The election of 1896 |
is sometimes called the first modern pres |
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Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus? |
blacks |
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By the end of the nineteenth century, African-American men in the south... |
were forced out of politics |
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Which statement about the South after 1890 is FALSE? |
Whites feared that northerners would abolish the Jim Crow laws |
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How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1890's as the white North & South moved toward reconciliation? |
as a tragic family quarrel among white Americans |
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What explains the appeal of the Lost Cause mythology for southern whites in the late nineteenth century? |
it helped southern whites cope with defeat |
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The Supreme Court decision US V Wong Kim Ark |
the fourteenth Amendment gave Chinese children born in the US citizenship |
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Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor |
restricted membership to only skilled workers |
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Which statement about the Spanish-American War is TRUE? |
the war only lasted 4 months
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The Teller Amendment stated that |
the US would not annex Cuba |
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The Platt Amendment |
authorized the US to intervene militarily in Cuba |
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The Philippine War |
was far longer and bloodier than the Span-Am war |
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President William McKinley justified US annexation of the Philippines on all of the grounds EXCEPT |
the US needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy |
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In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court |
held that the constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the US during the Span-Am war |
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The word "Progressivism" 1910 |
as a way of describing a loosely defined political movement |
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The Progressive movement drew its strength from |
middle-class reformers |
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Newspaper & magazine writers who exposed the ills... |
muckrackers |
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During the Progressive Era |
new immigration from southern & eastern Europe reached its peak
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Asian and Mexican immigrants |
clustered in the west as agricultural workers |
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"Birds of passage" were |
immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland |
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Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century |
lived in close-knit communities |
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Not true of mass consumption |
Southerners fully participated in the mass-consuption society |
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Nickelodean |
motion-picture theater |
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The program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs |
scientific management |
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Socialist Pary didn't advocate
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national health insurance |
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By 1912, the socialist party |
had elected scores of local officials |
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False about American Federation of Labor
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The AFL proposed an overthrow of the capitalist system |
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Margaret Sanger |
birth control advocate |
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Progressive reformers? |
Progressives pursued radical |
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Progressive governor of Wisconsin EXCEPT |
promising lower taxes |
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Electoral reform during the Progressive era |
actually limited many Americans right to vote |
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Jane Addams & Hull House not true |
opposed government intervention in regards to workplace safety
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Muller V. Oregon |
Supreme court |
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Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act |
Roosevelt |
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To create national parks, the federal government |
set aside millions of acres from economic development |
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1912 Freedom act |
was woodrow wilson's campaign pledge |
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New Nationalism & New Freedom differed on issues of |
regulating versus trust-busting |
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As a Progressive president, Woodrow Wilson |
signed into law the Keating-Owen act |
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The Federal Trade Commision |
was Woodrow Wilson program |
