Untitled Deck Flashcards
(25 cards)
What was Grant’s military record before the Civil War?
Not impressive, he was an officer in the Mexican War, but had a problem with drinking and resigned.
Who provided Grant with his margin of victory in the 1868 election?
African American voters.
What does the Fifteenth Amendment prohibit?
It outlawed denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude.
What were greenbacks?
Greenbacks were paper money that were not backed by gold reserves.
How did their use affect the nation’s economy?
The implementation of greenbacks created more money than the government’s gold reserves, but their withdrawal meant that people would have less money to pay their loans with, leading to debt and bankruptcy.
What discoveries encouraged people to move west?
Gold in the regions of Colorado, and a mineral deposit in Utah and a gold deposit in South Dakota.
Where did most cattle drives begin and end?
Texas to the rail lines in Kansas.
How many battles between Native Americans and the U.S. Army took place between 1869 and 1875?
Over two hundred, mostly over the settlement of their lands.
How much did the urban population increase between 1830 and 1870?
From 1.1 million to 9.9 million.
What services grew in the cities to meet the public’s needs?
Public transportation, police, fire departments.
Why was a transcontinental railroad promoted?
It was promoted in order to create safe and quick travel for materials and people from one end of the country to the other.
What two companies built the transcontinental railroad?
Union Pacific and Central Pacific.
In what three ways did the government give financial assistance to the railroads?
They gave loans, considerable land grants according to the progress made, and tax breaks from local, state, and national governments.
What were some of the benefits of the project?
Someone could now travel coast to coast in seven days. It opened rapid settlement for the West. It connected raw materials with factories.
What were some of the costs of the project?
The government ended up overpaying by about $55 million. The bison population almost got wiped out. Native Americans were also hurt by this.
Who were the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates in 1876?
The Democrats nominated Samuel Tilden, and the Republicans nominated Rutherford Hayes.
What did Congress do to settle the controversy of the presidential election of 1876?
They set up a commission to investigate the election. It was an even split of Democrats and Republicans from the House, Senate, and Supreme Court, and the decision was won 8-7 that Hayes had won all three uncertain states.
What deal did leading Republicans and southern Democrats evidently make behind the scenes in late February of 1877?
They agreed that if Hayes was elected, they would withdraw reconstruction troops from the South.
Who were the main losers in the deal that was made? Why?
Southern blacks, who lost the protection from the Republicans and were not largely defended by the Democrats.
What happened to the civil rights of blacks in the years after 1877?
They were limited or removed by Democratic governments.
How was American life a mixture of good and bad in the late nineteenth century?
There was the end of slavery, improved agricultural technology, and advances in medicine. But there was still racial prejudice, people suffering in the newly founded factories, and the government was focused on the influence of the rich.
What spiritual issues are involved in medical research and advances?
As we now have the ability to extend and save human life, we have to ask ourselves to what effort and cost we will go, and what kind of quality of life we are actually bringing to our loved ones by doing it.
What are some moral issues involved in embryonic stem cell research?
If you believe that life is sacred from the moment of conception, then stem cell research is built off of the killing of people, and encourages the killing of people.
How can the city pull people away from God?
Cities constantly highlight the effect of human creation and only try to draw your eyes to that.
