Unit 1

Question 1

Republicans After Civil War

Answer 1

Wanted reconciliation with the help of Abraham Lincoln

Question 2

Radical Republicans

Answer 2

Wanted equal rights and vengeance

Question 3

Andrew Johnson

Answer 3

A poor southerner and democrat who became president after Lincoln’s assassination, ex-civil war rebels came back into power with his lead

Question 4

13th Amendment

Answer 4

No slavery except for prison

Question 5

14th Amendment

Answer 5

Citizenship protected

Question 6

15th Amendment

Answer 6

Protected the right to vote

Question 7

1876 Election

Answer 7

Tied election allows north to win if they take away the army in the south, but gold is found in the west so the government agrees

Question 8

Homestead Act

Answer 8

Provides 160 acres of land to any citizen or intended citizen, not a confederate, who agrees to improve the land

Question 9

Cattle in Texas

Answer 9

Too cheap and too many after war, Goodnight-Loving trail is created for hungry miners and Native Americans who’s land had been stolen

Question 10

Robber Baron

Answer 10

Businessperson who is wealthy by means of unfairness and does not use the wealth for good

Question 11

Captain of Industry

Answer 11

Businessperson who is wealthy but is fair and uses wealth for good/philanthropy

Question 12

Vertical Integration

Answer 12

Process by which companies buy out all supplies/raw materials

Question 13

Horizontal Integration

Answer 13

Process by which a company buys out/merges with competing companies

Question 14

Trust

Answer 14

A system where industrialists combine companies under one board of directors to control an industry, reduce competition, and increase profits, also a type of horizontal integration

Question 15

Faisser-Faire Economics

Answer 15

An economic philosophy where the government doesn’t regulate businesses, meaning leave it alone

Question 16

Union

Answer 16

A group with collective bargaining power

Question 17

Knights of Labor

Answer 17

Inclusive, cooperative union

Question 18

American Federation of Labor

Answer 18

Exclusive especially to KOL, a skilled labor focused union

Question 19

Industrial Workers of the World

Answer 19

Socialists, anarchists, radical, with a direct action for industries union

Question 20

European Migration Reasons

Answer 20

Religious persecution, food scarcity, class systems, revolutions, and opportunity

Question 21

Chinese and Japanese Timeline

Answer 21

Came to America at same time, then excluded, went to Hawaii, Hawaii becomes a state so to California

Question 22

Approval in Journey to America

Answer 22

Inability to speak English, screened for health problems and could be quarantined, had to prove ability to work and have some money

Question 23

Nativism

Answer 23

Anti-immigrant movements

Question 24

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 24

Restricted Chinese immigration

Question 25

Homestead Qualifications

Answer 25

Head of the household, at least 21 years old, certify he or she had never taken up arms against the U.S

Question 26

Homestead Provings

Answer 26

Live on the land, build a home, make improvements to the land, and farm for five years

Question 27

Dawes Act

Answer 27

Break up tribal lands by means of assimilating indigenous people, stripping them of their land and selling it, and restricting them of becoming U.S. citizens unless they agreed to the division

Question 28

Dawes Act Impact

Answer 28

Giving them a fraction of land unsuitable for agriculture, required ranching, eligibility for enrollment in order to receive land, underpaid, difficulties for their future generations because they did not know how to farm or the land was too little

Question 29

Chief Joseph's Retreat

Answer 29

Defeated troops but surrendered and placed in reservation

Question 30

Battle of Little Bighorn Other Name

Answer 30

Custer's Last Stand

Question 31

Wounded Knee Massacre

Answer 31

Last major conflict, massacre when Colonel Forsyth ordered weapons and Deaf Native American accidentally shot it off

Question 32

Sitting Bull

Answer 32

Killed during arrest for performing Ghost Dance

Question 33

Panic of 1873

Answer 33

Cause of first Great Depression when the stock market crashed due to investments, particularly railroads being sold off

Question 34

Henry George

Answer 34

Candidate who wanted to separate gaps between rich and poor

Question 35

Jacob Riis' Book

Answer 35

How the Other Half Lives

Question 36

Competing Companies to Build Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 36

Union Pacific and Central Pacific

Question 37

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 37

Capitalist who helped build the steel industry, believed to be a Captain of Industry

Question 38

Homestead Strike

Answer 38

A violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers

Question 39

Pullman Strike

Answer 39

A widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic

Question 40

Coal Strike of 1902

Answer 40

A strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the coalfields

Question 41

Holding Company

Answer 41

A parent company whose purpose is to buy and control the ownership interests of other companies

Question 42

Americanization Movement

Answer 42

Nationwide effort to bring immigrants into the American cultural system

Question 43

Urbanization

Answer 43

The process of more people live in cities

Question 44

Settlement Houses

Answer 44

Organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants