Film & American History Final - Woolery

Question 0

civil war

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*southern states seceded from the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln

Question 1

antebellum south

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• south before the war

* classy, wealthy, festive, parties

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William T. Sherman

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• union general

* practiced total war

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Dunning School

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*states reconstruction was harmful to the south

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carpetbaggers

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• myths: yankees and blacks conspired to exploit the South after the War
• realities: Northerners who relocated to the South after the civil war

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scalawags

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• myths: manipulated the freedmen to gain control of the state governments
• reality: southerners who joined republican parties

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forty acres & a mule

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• myths: created economic independence for southern black

* reality: rarely implemented and usually repealed

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14th amendment

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defined citizenship and limited power of state governments over individual rights and freedom

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white terrorism in the south

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Klu Klux Klan

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13th amendment

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*prohibited slavery throughout the entire USA with no financial compensation for slave owners

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abolitionism

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a movement to end slavery

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Thaddeus Stevens

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*most radical of the radical republicans

during the civil war and reconstruction; believed in equal rights for all

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emancipation proclamation

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*proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion

Question 13

importance of the 1864 presidential election

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• Lincoln campaigned for a constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery throughout the USA
• he would claim a mandate from the voters to push for an anti-slavery constitutional amendment

Question 14

what was the impact of Lincoln’s assasination on Reconstruction & race relations in the USA?

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• Lincoln would have been able to control the radical republicans
• left a void in leadership
• Southern states passed a numerous laws restricting the rights of blacks.

Question 15

Brown vs Board of Education (1954)

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*state - sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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american pastor, civil rights leader, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African - American Civil rights movement

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what was the goal of the Montgomery bus boycott?

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*desegregation of Montgomery buses

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what was the goal of the Greensboro sit - ins?

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*desegregation of lunch counters

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Birmingham protests

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*desegregation of Birmingham and presidential support for civil rights legislation

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Killing of Medgar Evers

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• Medgar Evers was the head of the NAACP in Mississippi
• publicized racial murders like Emmett Till
• attempted to integrate the University of Mississippi

Question 21

March on Washington

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• jobs and freedom
• designed to shed light on the political and social challenges that African Americans continued to face across the country
• i have a dream speech

Question 22

Civil Rights Act of 1964

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*forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting and firing.

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President Lyndon B. Johnson

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• he called for immediate passage of the civil rights legislation
• passed the civil rights act of 1963

Question 24

Mississippi Freedom Summer

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- registration of black voters | - chaney, goodman, and schwerner murdered here

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Selma Protests

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*goal was to increase support for a federal law to end racial voting discrimination

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Voting rights act (1965)

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*outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting

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1994 murder conviction of Byron de la Beckwith

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* tried for murder 3 times * first two were mistrials/ had juries * never reached a verdict

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examples of 19th century violence

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* civil war: 750,000 killed * white supremacy in the south * missouri governor threatened * mormons with exterminations in 1838 * NYC draft riots * great railroad strike * homestead strike * pullman strike * Lincoln assassination * american indians vs us military * american indians vs us citizens * astor place riot

Question 29

jesse james

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outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James - Young gang

Question 30

Post civil war myth about confederates and their treatment during reconstruction

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all ex- confederates were victimized by radical republicans

Question 31

Describe the effects of the Dawes severalty acton indian land ownership *the conquest of the west

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*indian landownership decreased

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what was the goal of the Dawes Severalty act?

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* tribal mentality - individualism | * tribal ownership - individual ownership of land

Question 33

He led the Nez Perce Indians on a 13000 mile trek towards Canada to avoid the reservation. His tribe did not scalp or attack civilians. Gained the respect of his military adversaries. *the conquest of the west

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Chief Joseph

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Describe the importance of the following Indian leaders: Geronimo *the conquest of the west

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Last Indian war leader who surrendered to US Military

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Describe the importance of the following Indian leaders: Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse *the conquest of the west

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*Lakota Sioux who massacred Custer's army unit @ Little Big

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What were the dual unposed of vigilante groups like the Red Shirts, the White League, and the Mississippi Rifle Club?

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- stop crime | - defend white supremacy

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Lost Cause

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- creation of their independent nation(nationalism) | - rights, traditions, etc

Question 38

The historian Donald Miller said "the South won the peace". What does this mean?

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White southerners repeatable shed white supremacy and stripped southern blacks of their constitutional rights with Jim Crow laws, racial voting discrimination laws, and lynchings

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J. Edgar Hoover

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- FBI Director - opposed to civil rights movement - opposed to KKK

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Delmar Dennis

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Testified in trials of goodman, schwerner, and Chaney and beckwith

Question 41

Describe the different court systems that were used to convict the murders of gsc and evers

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Gsc=federal court | Evers=state court

Question 42

Frederick Jackson Turner frontier thesis

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The western movement made Americans a unique people by stimulating elm racy individualism and nationalism

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Western Wars of Incorporation

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- violent conflicts in post civil war west between economic, cultural, political, and social groups - stimulated by the. Integration of the western US into the national US economy 1. Conchise Country War(southern Arizona) : Yankees (Earps) vs Confederates (Clantons) 2. Johnson Country war(Wyoming): cattle ranches vs sheepherders 3. Lincoln Country War(New Mexico): Billy the Kid

Question 44

Describe the political reality that undermined treaties between he federal government and Indian tribes

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- US citizens wanted the Indian lands and expected elected leaders to get them the land - Indians had no suffrage to defend land

Question 45

What did Sand Creek, Little Bighorn, Washita River, and Wounded Knee all have in common during the 19th century?

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Massacred by Indians or US