Midterm 1

Question 1

Nativism

Answer 1

Anti-immigrant, anti-catholic feeling, specially from 1930-1950

Question 2

The Civil War

Answer 2

American war between northern and southern states (1861-1865)

Question 3

Harper’s Ferry

Answer 3

Site of abolitionist John Brown, failed raid on federal arsenal in 1859.

Question 4

Dred Scott Case

Answer 4

Supreme Court decision made by Chief of Justice Tanner that ruled that congress couldn’t prohibit slavery because that would violate 5th amendment rights. Black persons couldn’t be citizens.

Question 5

Lincoln Assassination

Answer 5

16th president of the US. Killed by actor John Wilkes Booth at a play in Washington DC. April 14, 1865

Question 6

Haymarket Affair

Answer 6

Violence during anarchist protests in Chicago where 8, including 7 police officers died. 8 anarchist leaders were put to trial for conspiracy to commit murder

Question 7

Credit Mobiler Scandal

Answer 7

Credit Mobiler was the construction company that stole money from the construction of the eastern part of the transcontinental railroad

Question 8

Johnson’s Impeachment

Answer 8

Andrew Johnson was impeached but not convicted due to 1 votes for the 2/3 needed

Question 9

Pullman Strike

Answer 9

Strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Illinois by the American Railway Union under Eugene V. Debs. Strike crushed 2 months later

Question 10

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 10

In 1882in became illegal for Chinese immigrants to come to the US.

Question 11

Gilded Age

Answer 11

Time period between the end of the war and the turn of the century

Question 12

Plessy VS Ferguson

Answer 12

Supreme Court decision that supported the Jim Crow Laws and the “equal but separate” facilities for blacks and whites

Question 13

Annexation of Hawaii

Answer 13

Dole fruit company led overthrow of Hawaiian Queen

Question 14

Spanish-American War

Answer 14

War over Cuba that started with the explosion of the USS Main

Question 15

Philippine-American War

Answer 15

American military campaign that suppressed the Philippine people of gaining their independence after the Spanish-American War

Question 16

USS Maine

Answer 16

Battleship that exploded in the Havana Harbor.

Question 17

Panama Canal

Answer 17

Canal that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

Question 18

Roosevelt Collary

Answer 18

“International police power” was the collary to the Monroe Doctrine that the US could intervene militarily to prevent European intervention in the Western Hemisphere

Question 19

Cuba/platt amendment

Answer 19

Amendment that stated US was allowed in Cuba if they thought intervention was necessary

Question 20

Square Deal

Answer 20

Roosevelt did not vow to favor any specific group of people, instead he was focused on what was fair for all.

Question 21

Muchrakers

Answer 21

Journalist, cartoonists and writers that brought various political and social problems to peoples attention

Question 22

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Answer 22

First law to restrict monopolistic trusts and businesses

Question 23

Robber Baron

Answer 23

Derogatory metaphor of social criticism applied to 19th century businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to make their money

Question 24

Social Darwinism

Answer 24

Using survival of the fittest to justify class distinctions and to explain poverty

Question 25

Reconstruction

Answer 25

Period after the union’s victory of the civil war

Question 26

Freedman Bureau

Answer 26

Government set bureau to help integrate former slaves to society. Provided basic education, healthcare and other services in be south.

Question 27

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 27

First line across the continent, from Nebraska to California. United with Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in Utah

Question 28

Klux Klux Klan

Answer 28

Fundamentalist, white supremacy supporters organization that terrorized and killed blacks. Organized in Tennessee

Question 29

Palmer Raids

Answer 29

Raids conducted by the Department of Justice to arrest and deport suspected radical leftists, specially anarchists

Question 30

Women’s sufferage

Answer 30

Women’s right to vote

Question 31

Prohibition

Answer 31

Alcohol production and consumption banned in the US

Question 32

Labor reforms

Answer 32

Reforms that improved the working conditions and workers rights

Question 33

13th amendment

Answer 33

Abolition of slavery

Question 34

14th amendment

Answer 34

Guaranteed citizenship to former slaves

Question 35

15th amendment

Answer 35

Prohibited racial discrimination on voting privileges

Question 36

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

Answer 36

1. Slavery 2. Election of Lincoln 3. Expansion 4. Bleeding Kansas 5. Secession

Question 37

RECONSTRUCTION LEGISLATIONS

Answer 37

1. Tenure in Office Act 2. 14th Amendment 3. 15th Amendment 4. Reconstruction Act of 1867

Question 38

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

Answer 38

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