Quiz 3

Question 1

Lincoln’s original plan for reconstruction was called the ____________ plan. In this plan, 10% of the people living in the states that had left the government would have to take an oath and be loyal to the government

Answer 1

10% plan

Question 2

People thought that the 10% plan was too lenient, and the ___________proposed their own bill called the ____________.

Answer 2

Republicans, Wade-Davis bill

Question 3

in the wade davis bill, 50% of people who had left the union to take an oath of loyalty. Lincoln knew if he vetoed the bill, it might cause him trouble because the election was coming up
He _____________ the bill because this was a more subtle way to do it

Answer 3

pocket vetoed

Question 4

a ______________ is when a bill is sitting on the president’s desk for longer than 10 days, then the bill dies

Answer 4

Pocket veto

Question 5

___________ was Lincoln’s VP, but not the original one. He chose Johnson because he was from Tennessee (Confederate State). Johnson was the only senator from the South who stayed loyal to the North. Lincoln wanted the Presidental ticket to show a unified country

Answer 5

Andrew Johnson

Question 6

Johnson was racist because he grew up in the south. He told southern states that they had to do two things before they came back into the union. Recognize the end of slavery by _____________,
___________ secession

Answer 6

ratifying the 13th amendment, denounce

Question 7

Southern states started to send representatives after they had returned to the union Most of the men were the same men who had represented the states before the ____________ they had the same attitudes

Answer 7

Civil War

Question 8

____________
was sent by the state of Georgia. Was VP of Confederate states during the Civil War. Lots of people thought that he should be in prison or dead because he had committed _________

Answer 8

Alexander Stephens, treason

Question 9

he southern states changed slave codes to ______ codes to get around the end of slavery

Answer 9

black

Question 10

Republicans in Congress were considered _________ because their way of thinking was very different Republicans in Congress decided they were going to seize control and take over without Johnson

Answer 10

radical

Question 11

Radical republicans wanted to ________ the south and __________ __________ to African Americans

Answer 11

punish, grant rights

Question 12

the __________ passed in 1866, and was ratified in 1868. It granted citizenship to _____________. this was an issue because some children were citizens but their parents weren’t.

Answer 12

14th amendment, anyone born in the US

Question 13

The 14th amendment also stated that no former _____________ could hold a federal or state office without _________ approval.

Answer 13

confederate official, senate

Question 14

the ____________ dominated the senate. They wanted to remove men like Alexander Stephens

Answer 14

Radical Republicans

Question 15

a _________ was a southerner who sided with Republicans,

Answer 15

Scalawag

Question 16

a ___________ was a northern business person who went south to try to start a business. People thought they were exploiting the south

Answer 16

Carpet Bagger

Question 17

The South was divided into 5 _____________. each had a general. The generals were there to make sure that the South was staying in line, and protecting African Americans in the South

Answer 17

Military districts

Question 18

Every bill that the Radicals passed, _________ vetoed, but they overrode those bills because they made up the majority of Congress

Answer 18

Johnson

Question 19

the ___________ stated that the President could not remove any civil official including cabinet members without Senate approval. People in the Senate are the ones who vote to approve the Presidential Cabinet

Answer 19

Tenure of Office Act

Question 20

The Tenure of Office Act was created to protect the job of Secretary of War, specifically __________. He and Johnson did not like each other, the radicals knew that Johnson would try to remove Stanton from office

Answer 20

Edward Stanton

Question 21

Johnson attempts to violate the Tenure of Office Act by removing Edward Stanton from office _________ used this as their basis to remove Johnson from office

Answer 21

Congress

Question 22

_____________ starts in the House of Representatives. They agreed that Johnson tried to violate the Tenure of Office Act. The next step takes place in the _________, which determines if the President should be removed from office, with a 2/3 majority. Johnson was not removed from office, but it was close

Answer 22

Impeachment, Senate

Question 23

___________ was a Radical Republican and a war hero. There was lots of _______ going on during his administration
Grant was too trusting and often thought that people were innocent when they were guilty

Answer 23

Ulysses S. Grant, corruption

Question 24

the __________ stated that you could not deny someone the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Large numbers of ________ started voting for the republican party and were also being elected to public office

Answer 24

15th amendment, black men

Question 25

_____________ were angry about the 15th amendment. Terrorist groups such as the KKK were formed to try to terrorize African Americans

Answer 25

Southerners

Question 26

in the panic of 1873, ______________ were blamed because of reconstruction and how much money it was costing

Answer 26

Republicans

Question 27

__________ were regaining power. They regained control of the House of Representatives. Most of the reconstruction policies ended. Grant decided to slow down ___________ policies

Answer 27

Democrats, reconstruction

Question 28

Democrats wanted to use force to take over the government. They showed up at Republican __________and didn’t allow the Republicans to meet This caused the Republicans to _______.

Answer 28

headquarters, lose

Question 29

Democrats gained a super majority, which is above ________ They impeached the _________ of Missisippi because they had the majority Grant does nothing about this

Answer 29

2/3, governor

Question 30

In the election of ________, Rutherford B. Hayes was the Republican candidate and Samual Tilden was the democrat candidate

Answer 30

1876

Question 31

_______ electoral votes in question came from the three southern states that were still under military control. Congress created a special 15-member committee with 8 Republicans and 7 Demoncrats. All 20 votes were given to _______, and he became the 19th President

Answer 31

20, Hayes

Question 32

The compromise of 1877 ended ___________. it also ended Northern occupation of the South. Northern troops were withdrawn, which created a total change

Answer 32

reconstruction

Question 33

Southern states wanted to find a way around the amendments, specifically the 15th They tried to ___________southern blacks.They added poll taxes and literacy tests

Answer 33

disenfranchise

Question 34

The ___________ hindered black people from voting because Black people weren’t allowed to read and write during slavery. These laws were in place until the 1960s. This caused black voter turnout to drop from 80-90% to 11%

Answer 34

literacy tests

Question 35

the __________ were state-supported segregation laws. These laws were challenged and went all the way to the Supreme Court

Answer 35

Jim Crow Laws

Question 36

The outcome of the Plessy v. Ferguson was ___________but __________. It was eventually overturned by Brown vs Board of Education. Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was unequal

Answer 36

separate but equal

Question 37

In the end, the US will emerge as one of the top ________ powers in the world. Electricity was also invented, and ________ replaces iron, it allows buildings to be taller

Answer 37

three, steel

Question 38

______________means the process of bringing together into a single company several of the activities involved in creating a manufactured product, such as acquiring raw materials, manufacturing products, and marketing, selling, and distributing finished goods.

Answer 38

vertical integration

Question 39

___________ was a big steel tycoon because he used ___________. Carnegie owned everything relating to steel, which meant that he could control it all and not lose any profit

Answer 39

Andrew Carnegie, Vertical integration

Question 40

_______________ means merging one or more companies doing the same or similar activities as a way of limiting competition or enhancing stability and planning.

Answer 40

horizontal integration

Question 41

_____________used horizontal integration, he bought out every company that did the same thing as his company, called __________. He had the lowest prices, which caused the other companies to go out of business and then he bought them all out

Answer 41

John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil

Question 42

the ___________ consisted of ______________.They took anyone including women and black people because their jobs were so easy

Answer 42

Knights of labor, unskilled workers

Question 43

____________weren’t effective for the Knights of Labor because they didn’t have leverage. Management would usually try to force the workers to go back to work. The workers were always painted negatively, often associated with violence

Answer 43

strikes

Question 44

the __________ was when one worker threw a bomb at the police officers after they came, 8 men were arrested for this. People in the Knights of Labor were labeled as killers and the union soon dies

Answer 44

Haymarket Riot

Question 45

the ______________ was a mix of skilled and unskilled workers. Skilled workers were able to go on strike

Answer 45

American Federation of Labor

Question 46

______________ took the concept of "survival of the fittest". It was created by ____________.

Answer 46

Social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer

Question 47

All of the __________ used Social Darwinism to justify what they were doing. They attributed homelessness to being _________. They thought that the poor people should just die off because they were inferior, they didn’t want to allow them to weigh down the gene pool

Answer 47

tycoons, unfit

Question 48

when white people started moving west, the ___________ was passed. It was responsible for economic development in the West. It granted 160 acres of land to people who moved west. People had to farm the land for 5 years

Answer 48

Homestead Act of 1862

Question 49

Two problems with the homestead act were _________ and __________.

Answer 49

buffalo and native americans

Question 50

there were 13 million buffalo in the west that plowed through the farms. The government responded by ___________ which helped the Native Americans because they used the buffalo

Answer 50

killing the buffalo

Question 51

The _____________ was when the Americans wanted to move all of the Native Americans onto two large reservations to get them out of the way of White expansion into the __________ and __________

Answer 51

reservation policy, dakotas, oklahoma

Question 52

the Dakotas and Oklahoma were not good places to live, and so the government had to force the Natives to go there which caused the start of the _______________.

Answer 52

Indian Wars

Question 53

the _____________ was led by Custard, but him and his men were outnumbered 10:1, and all of the Americans were killed. This was called _____________.

Answer 53

battle of little big horn, Custard's last stand

Question 54

Another reason why the natives won the battle of little big horn was because they had better ________ that they got from trading with the US. Custard and his men were also mutilated and the Americans started thinking of them as ___________, which made them more determined to defeat the natives.

Answer 54

guns, savages

Question 55

At a certain point, the Indian wars became a war of __________, which meant that the Americans were wearing the natives down while their food supply ran out

Answer 55

Attrition

Question 56

the battle of ____________ was in the middle of winter. The natives were doing a __________ dance to try to seek guidance from their ancestors, but the Americans interpreted this as a war dance and mowed them down. This was the end of the Indian wars because most of the natives had been put on reservations

Answer 56

wounded knee, ghost

Question 57

the Dawes Act was meant to _________ the natives. The Government wanted the Natives to become like White Americans and become landowners. The ___________ was divided into tracts of land The head of household would receive 160 acres Single male - 80 acres If the natives accepted, they would receive citizenship in 25 years

Answer 57

civilize, reservation

Question 58

Another part of the Dawes act was that the government wanted Native American children to be educated in ____________ _____________.

Answer 58

white culture

Question 59

At first, the government tried create schools on the reservations. Then they created off-reservation schools and the students were not treated well or fed well, and their cultures were ripped apart. Students only got 4 hours of school and the rest of the day they were forced to perform ____________ __________ to help support the school

Answer 59

manual labor

Question 60

Most of the railroad in the West was built by ________ laborers Working for the railroad was a decent job, the Americans were upset that the Chinese were “stealing jobs” from them

Answer 60

chinese

Question 61

the _________ prohibited Chinese immigration to the US for _______ years. Any Chinese living in the US could not become a US citizen It was renewed in 1892, and then became permanent in 1902. It was the first time the US government created a specific law preventing groups of people from entering the US.

Answer 61

Chinese exclusion act, 10

Question 62

Most of the states who wanted to come into the union were accepted In 1890, ________ applied for admission into the union and was rejected It was populated by ________, who practiced polygamy (having more than one spouse) They were only allowed into the US after they made polygamy illegal in 1896

Answer 62

Utah, Mormons

Question 63

As the factory industry grew, the population of the cities grew and became __________. Machines were were being used for farming, which meant fewer people were needed, so there was _________ ____________.

Answer 63

overpopulated, internal migration

Question 64

the immigrants who came after __________ were very different from the ones who came prior These immigrants were from Southern and Eastern Europe

Answer 64

1870

Question 65

People lived in ____________ ____________, very small houses for lots of people. They started using chamber pots which created sewage, leading to water problems. Trash was also thrown out the window which attracted rats. The child mortality rate went way up There were no building codes, and violence also skyrocketed

Answer 65

tenement housing

Question 66

Some groups were helping immigrants, such as

Answer 66

churches and national organizations

Question 67

the _____________ was an ugly age of politics. It was made to look pretty, but was actually covering up something ugly.

Answer 67

Gilded Age

Question 68

During the Gilded Age, the country was very _____________. There was ____________ ___________, which was created by Andrew Jackson. He thought that if your party won, your political supporters should be given jobs in government

Answer 68

polarized, patronage abuse

Question 69

the _____________ was when you had to take an exam to be elligible to acquire a government job. The government would then select from the pool of people who scored the highest

Answer 69

Pendleton Act

Question 70

There was ____________ abuse, because they were almost always politically motivated

Answer 70

tarriff

Question 71

When _____________ were in office, the tariffs went up. They wanted to help the wealthy people. When _____________ were in office, tariffs went down. They wanted to protect the consumers They promote competition in the marketplace

Answer 71

republicans, democrats

Question 72

Women decided to go to ____________ ____________ to get the right to vote The first state to give women to vote was ____________, when it became a state in 1890 They could only vote in state elections

Answer 72

individual states, wyoming

Question 73

___________ was a Civil War hero and was assassinated

Answer 73

James Garfield

Question 74

_____________had Congress appropriate money to modernize the US Navy. He also made ships using steel. This transformation made the Navy a dominant Navy

Answer 74

Chester A. Arthur

Question 75

___________ was the first Democrat since before the Civil War. he lowered tariffs

Answer 75

Grover Cleveland

Question 76

______________ only won because the Republicans cheated. It was the most corrupt election in American history. Many voters voted multiple times He spent so much money that the budget exceeded a billion dollars

Answer 76

Benjamin Harrison

Question 77

Grover Cleveland was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms Two months after he came into office, the economy collapsed, causing the ____________.

Answer 77

Panic of 1893

Question 78

The Panic of 1893 was the second-worst economic crisis Unemployment rate was 20% This was all caused by Benjamin Harrison’s ________________

Answer 78

excessive spending

Question 79

_____________ stabilized the economy

Answer 79

William McKinley

Question 80

____________ is when one power asserts its influence over another. There are two types, formal and informal

Answer 80

Imperalism

Question 81

____________ imperialism is when one power attacks another country/area/territory That area becomes a formal territory of the larger power Ex: ____________

Answer 81

Formal, Puerto Rico

Question 82

_____________ is when one country relies on another country for either protection or economic life

Answer 82

informal imperialism

Question 83

This country relies on the US for protection, the government doesn’t need to spend lots of money on war because they are neighbors with the US

Answer 83

Canada

Question 84

This country relies on the US for economic life, they owe their economic life to the US because their #1 export is sugar. Americans consume a lot of sugar, and the Cuban economy thrives

Answer 84

Cuba

Question 85

After the panic of 1893, the price of ________ went up. The economy collapsed when the American economy did.

Answer 85

cuban sugar

Question 86

The Cuban people began to protest against the Spanish because of bad rule. The ____________ started to round up Cubans and put them into concentration camps Americans began to speak out against this.

Answer 86

Spanish Government

Question 87

McKinley sends_________ to Cuba to protect Americans there There was a letter that was intercepted about how bad McKinley was and the Americans were outraged.

Answer 87

USS Maine

Question 88

The USS Maine blew up and the Americans were investigating it. They concluded that he ship hit a _______ and blew up. This was a perfect reason for the US to go to war with ________.

Answer 88

Mine, Spain

Question 89

The US wanted to take territory from Spain to become one of the __________ __________ in the age of Imperialism. The war started because of events in _________

Answer 89

biggest powers, Cuba

Question 90

The battle of Manila Bay took place in the Philippines, a Spanish territory. the US sunk all of the ships. The American Navy was dominant because they were made out of ________, and the Spanish ships were made out of ________. The US told people in the Philippines to rise up and _________ their government

Answer 90

steel, iron, overthrow

Question 91

__________led the Philippines against the Spanish and the US later on

Answer 91

Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 92

The American Army invaded _______ in 1898. They were wearing wool clothing, which caused many to die from _________. This war was the first war since the Civil War which was symbolic because the US was coming together

Answer 92

cuba, heat stroke

Question 93

In the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, Americans win by a landslide. The Spanish and the US finally stopped fighting and created the ______________

Answer 93

Treaty of Paris 1898

Question 94

In the treaty of Paris 1898, __________ received its independence, and the US received three colonies:

Answer 94

Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipines

Question 95

The __________ were mad that they were a US territory now, and they rose up against the US. There was an insurrection, but the Americans put this down

Answer 95

Phillipines

Question 96

The reason that the US owned various islands in the Pacific was so that their ships could _________

Answer 96

refuel

Question 97

The US wanted Phillpines was so that they could have access to the __________ to sell goods

Answer 97

Chinese market

Question 98

The US was late to the game regarding the Chinese market. China had been divided into different _____________ where each country ruled over. The US wanted to dump their goods into China without tariffs

Answer 98

Spheres of influence

Question 99

The US eventually got access to China’s market because they helped put down the Boxer Rebellion. After this, the ___________ was created. The US received equal and impartial trade in China (no tariffs)

Answer 99

Open Door Policy

Question 100

Panama was controlled by ____________, and the US wanted to build a canal. Columbia said no at first, so the US insights a rebellion Construction started in 1903 and ended in 1914 (just in time for WWI)

Answer 100

Columbia