Test 1 I.D.

Question 1

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 1

• March 3, 1865

- Recognition to help the slaves because of their circumstance.

Question 2

10 Percent Reconstruction Plan

Answer 2

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Question 3

Open Door Policy

Answer 3

• For the situation with the chinese
• China was in bad shape
• europeans are in control of the chinese
• The U.S. wants to get in on Chinese trade
• Europeans don’t like this because it takes money from them

Question 4

Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine

Answer 4

• Central component/ backbone of U.S. foreign policies since Monroe.
• Argued the Western Hemisphere is a U.S. fear of influence
• No one is allowed to take it.
• Problem with this document because of debt
• Why? He either violates it to let Europe deal with the dominican republic or the U.S. will have to go in and do it itself.

Question 5

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 5

-not a clue (ask someone)

Question 6

George A. Custer

Answer 6

• was a Cernal in the army
• had experience in the civil war
• very good opinion of himself
• His army of 264 men is ready to attack the indians
• Custer was given clear orders to go around the back and block the indians escape route into the hills
• He has no order to attack but cluster attacks
• This brings on the battle of little big horn where he is then killed.

Question 7

The battle of little big horn

Answer 7

• Custer attacks without an order; Custer and all of his men get killed
• Known as Custers Last stand in 1874
• Huge boost for the Indians but long term they can’t hold against the army and very quickly the indians have defeated and moved into another reservation without gold.

Question 8

Dawes severalty act

Answer 8

• the impact

- (ask hannah) confusion with notes

Question 9

The specific railroad act of 1862

Answer 9

• created a system of land grants to fund the track
• it says in 5 square mile tracks in a checkerboard pattern on each side of the track can be sold to pay for the track
• the government owns the rest
• It is a great deal for those in the railroad business
• The railroad is expected to make people crazy rich
• Not a very good system but there was no other way
• by 1869 the transcontinental railroad is complete
• this transforms the west

Question 10

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 10

• Owned standard oil company
• From Ohio, in 1860 begins oil business
• buys up other oil business
• Oil used for lamps and heating
• He does a monopoly and jacks up all the oil prices he can

Question 11

The Interstate Commerce Act

Answer 11

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Question 12

The Cross of Gold

Answer 12

• speach given by William Jennings
• Start coining silver
• leads to inflation
• Although, william was a great speaker the thought of switching to silver scared people so Mckinley wins

Question 13

Panic of 1893

Answer 13

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