Mid Term Review

Question 1

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 1

Before the civil war, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there.

Question 2

After Kansas-Nebraska act passed, northerner a head to Kansas to?

Answer 2

Create antislavery territory

Question 3

In Lincoln’s inaugural speech he focused on?

Answer 3

Popular sovereignty

Question 4

Compromise 1850: why did Henry clay group his resolutions in pairs?

Answer 4

Make easier to pass compromise

Question 5

Browns intention in raiding harpers fairy?

Answer 5

Against slave holders

Question 6

Emancipation proclamation

Answer 6

Freed slaves

Question 7

13th amendment

Answer 7

Banned slavery

Question 8

Anaconda plan

Answer 8

Blockade South and run it out of resources

Question 9

Under reconstruction plan, before confederate stated elected ppl to congress they?

Answer 9

Ratified 14th amendment (black rights)

Question 10

No clear winner if 1876 election?

Answer 10

Democrats had regained power in south

Question 11

Black codes

Answer 11

Limited black rights

Question 12

Laissez-faire

Answer 12

State gov is to interfere as little as possible in nations economy

Question 13

Early in industrialization: members of congress believe tariffs were necessary to?

Answer 13

Keep people buying American products

Question 14

2 railroads built transcontinental railroad?

Answer 14

Central pacific

Question 15

Credit mobilier

Answer 15

Construction company formed by insider who hired themselves to build railroad lines. Sometime paid themselves 50k for construction costing 30k

-under presidency of grant.

Question 16

Half immigrants in 1880s from?

Answer 16

East/south Europe

Question 17

Reason Chinese immigrants came to US in 1860s?

Answer 17

To make fortune

Question 18

Petroleum Hugh in demand for use of?

Answer 18

Kerosene, oil, tar, beauty products

Question 19

Late 1800s: why workers buying power generally increase?

Answer 19

Wages increase faster than prices

Question 20

William m. Tweed

Answer 20

Leader of NYC democratic political machine during 1860 -70s

-corruption led to prison sentence

Question 21

Diff between north and south segregation

Answer 21

North: more of a social thing
South: strict; highly enforced

Question 22

Plessy v ferguson

Answer 22

(Established discrimination basis for south) plessy 1/8 African arrested 4 sitting on white sec. of bus and denying to move.

• court allowed separation of race in public facilities (condition persisted till 1954)

Question 23

Collecting tarried in Dominican R. Using marines applied doctrine?

Answer 23

Roosevelt corollary

Question 24

Hawaii monarchy overthrown by?

Answer 24

Planters & US sailors

Question 25

Platt amendment

Answer 25

Laws of the territory of Cuba

Question 26

Theo Roosevelt became pres. When?

Answer 26

President Mckinley assassination

Question 27

Roosevelt won noble prize for peace between

Answer 27

Russia and Japan

Question 28

Roosevelt corollary

Answer 28

EU states not allowed to intervene w/ Latin America

Question 29

Year aquire 1st territory ou of US

Answer 29

Philippines/1898

Question 30

Schenck v. US

Answer 30

Curve free speech during times of war

Question 31

Event touched of declaration of war in ww1?

Answer 31

Assassination of hair to Austria Hungary thrown

Question 32

“Big four”

Answer 32

Britain, France, Italy, US

Question 33

Selective service act

Answer 33

Require all men between 21 - 30 to resign for drags

Question 34

Espionage and sedition acts

Answer 34

Prohibit interference w/ military opps. Support enemies extended by sedition act

Question 35

Organization that became the FBI was originally formed to

Answer 35

Raid radical headquarter looking for evidence if a communist conspiracy

Question 36

John T Scopes

Answer 36

Bio teacher from Tennessee who volunteered to be arrested for teaching evolution which was outlawed

Question 37

21 amendment

Answer 37

Reversed 18th amendment which made alcohol illegal

Question 38

Cotton club

Answer 38

Famous night club in Harlem New York included jazz music

Question 39

National origins act of 1924

Answer 39

Immigrant restriction a permanent policy: | Result: new quotes deliberately favored immigrants from northwest Europe

Question 40

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 40

Us anarchists convicted of murder and in spite of world wide protest was executed

Question 41

Tea pot dome scandal

Answer 41

Bribery incident took place in US 1922-1923 - president Harding - navy oil leases

Question 42

The Dawes plan

Answer 42

Loaned money to Germany - attempt to establish Germany's economy

Question 43

Albert b fall

Answer 43

Warren g Harding secretary on interior. Secretly allowed private interests to Keres lands containing US navy oil reserves at teapot dome

Question 44

Causes if stock market crash if 1929

Answer 44

Overvalued stocks, margin buying, federal policies, bad banking

Question 45

Causes of Great Depression

Answer 45

- stock market crash - banks out of money - over production

Question 46

“Court packing plan”

Answer 46

Increased court size w/ people to support new deal

Question 47

Roosevelt triggered economic downturn in 1937 by doing what?

Answer 47

Cutting back deficit spending

Question 48

The new deal

Answer 48

Plan to bring economy relief

Question 49

Riding the rails

Answer 49

People who snuck into trains to find work in far away places