Mid-Term exam

Question 1

What does “EMAINS” stand for?

Answer 1

Europe, Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Spark

Question 2

Why did the US enter WW1?

Answer 2

Sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman telegram

Question 3

What does the slogan “Remember the Maine” about?

Answer 3

The sinking of the Maine, a US vessel, that started the Spanish American War

Question 4

How did the US benefit from the treaty of Paris 1898?

Answer 4

It ended the Spanish American war and the Us was given Guam and Puerto Rico. Also allowed US to buy the Philippines and revoke Spain’s claim to Cuba

Question 5

What is the progressive Era?

Answer 5

A time when people concerned about economic and social problems, turned to the government for solutions

Question 6

What was bad about child labor?

Answer 6

underpaid, risk of injury and disease

Question 7

Name suffragists

Answer 7

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, Alice Paul, and Carrie Nation (Molly Hatchet)

Question 8

What was the intent of Indian Boarding Schools?

Answer 8

To integrate Native Americans

Question 9

Facts of sharecropping: Who?

Answer 9

Former slaves were often the victims, Former slave owners and other white men were often the ones who used sharecropping to their benefit

Question 10

Facts of sharecropping: What?

Answer 10

agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. White landowners hoarded the profits of Black workers trapping them in poverty and debt for generations.

Question 11

Facts of sharecropping: Why?

Answer 11

After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers so plantation owners took the opportunity to take advantage of former slaves.

Question 12

Who were the Bourbon Democrats?

Answer 12

A group of aristocrats, set on ridding the state of any progress made during the Radical Reconstruction and restoring it to its former glory from before the Civil War.

Question 13

Why did Exodusters leave the south?

Answer 13

Former slaves left towards the west in hopes of a better future.

Question 14

What was the gilded age?

Answer 14

A time of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern and Western United States.

Question 15

Who were the Robber Barrons?

Answer 15

John Rockefeller (oil), Cornelius Vanderbilt (trains), Andrew Carnegie (steel), J Pierpont Morgan (banks)

Question 16

What was the second industrial revolution?

Answer 16

Technological revolutions such as the use of electricity, oil, and the advancement of transportation with the railroad, automobile, and aircraft.