American History II Midterm Flashcards
Joseph Davis, brother of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, sold his plantations Hurricane and Brierfield in 1866. Why was this sale significant?
Joseph Davis sold his plantations to a white woman, and women could not legally own property.
Joseph Davis cut his own children out of his will and sold his property to Irish immigrants for $1.
Joseph Davis sold his property to a group of Northern “carpetbaggers.”
Joseph Davis sold his plantations to a black man and his sons.
The Confederate Bank held a lien on Joseph Davis’ property, so he sold it without actually having ownership.
Joseph Davis sold his plantations to a black man and his sons.
Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction required which of the following to occur before a defeated Confederate state could rejoin the Union?
Defeated Confederate states were required to draw up new state constitutions providing full black suffrage to black Americans.
Defeated Confederate states must provide social and political equality for black Americans, and then the state could rejoin the Union.
No former Confederate leaders would be allowed to hold political positions or participate in public life in defeated Confederate state governments.
Defeated Confederate states were required to confiscate the lands of the planter elite and redistribute to black freedmen.
A minimum of 10% of qualified voters from 1860 must take a loyalty oath, and then the state could organize its government.
A minimum of 10% of qualified voters from 1860 must take a loyalty oath, and then the state could organize its government.
The Wade-Davis bill was proposed by Radical Republicans, and it
required a loyalty oath by 50% of white adult males before allowing a defeated Confederate state to draft a new constitution.
was completely ignored by Lincoln, who at the war’s end signed an executive order declaring the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction the law of the land.
restricted political power to hard-core former Confederates.
required that freed slaves be elected to governorships in defeated states before states could be readmitted to the Union.
found favor with Lincoln, who signed the bill into law.
required a loyalty oath by 50% of white adult males before allowing a defeated Confederate state to draft a new constitution.
The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, medical care, and clothing to war refugees, including white southerners.
True
False
True
What was the most important provision of the Fourteenth Amendment?
It made African Americans citizens.
It guaranteed freedom of the press.
It funded public education in the Confederate South.
It gave African Americans the right to vote.
It prohibited the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages.
It made African Americans citizens.
Race riots erupted in these two southern cities, resulting in almost 100 deaths.
Jackson and Mobile
Atlanta and Birmingham
Memphis and New Orleans
Savannah and Pensacola
Selma and Nashville
Memphis and New Orleans
The Election of 1866 is significant because
Moderate Republicans were elected by a 3/5 majority to both houses of Congress, and these new representatives sought to accommodate Johnson’s coddling of the South.
Southern Democrats were elected in great numbers, showing that the nation fully supported Johnson’s lenient plan to reconstruct the South.
A sudden resurgence of Whig power happened, as the nation unified to elect a majority Whig Congress.
White Dixiecrats and black Democrats fought for seats in the House, with Congress refusing to seat representatives from either group.
Radical Republicans won more than a 2/3 majority in both houses of Congress, a sound repudiation of Johnson by voters.
Radical Republicans won more than a 2/3 majority in both houses of Congress, a sound repudiation of Johnson by voters.
Which below is NOT a provision of the First Reconstruction Act by Congressional (or Radical) Republicans?
Black adult males and former Confederates were to be enrolled as voters in former Confederate states.
State legislatures must ratify the Fourteenth Amendment if they wanted to rejoin the Union.
Former Confederates were barred from holding public office.
The ten unreconstructed states were placed under military law.
Black adult males and former Confederates were to be enrolled as voters in former Confederate states.
After Radical Republicans passed the First Reconstruction Act in March of 1867, President Johnson realizing that he was defeated, signed the bill into law and submitted to the will of Congress.
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False
True
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False
President Johnson was impeached by Congress because
he lied to Congress about having relations with an intern.
he refused to redistribute land to former slaves.
he ignored subpoenas to testify before a Congressional investigative committee.
he ignored the Tenure of Office Act.
he lied to Congress about the South possessing weapons of mass destruction.
he ignored the Tenure of Office Act.
According to Henry Grady, the tragedy of the South was that
the region had plenty of human and natural resources but no factories to manufacture the goods it needed.
the South experienced a declining birth rate, meaning that families could no longer work their farms.
the South had abandoned its traditional agriculture economy for the promise of industrialization.
the planter elite had lost its hold on power, replaced by a burgeoning business class.
the South should invest more in agriculture, and disregard any notions of a New Southern industrial economy.
the region had plenty of human and natural resources but no factories to manufacture the goods it needed.
It was pretty easy for tenant farmers and sharecroppers to get ahead if they worked hard and used the crop-lien system of credit to purchase seed and equipment.
True
False
False
As older, white Southern men moved from farms to textile mill towns, they
had difficulty adjusting.
used their physical attributes to dominate mill work.
had little trouble settling into the pace of factory work.
found it easy to handle spindles and looms in the mills.
possessed the perfect temperament for factory work.
had difficulty adjusting.
The New South crusade did succeed in bringing some industrialization to the South. The advances in these two industries were most striking:
Gold and fine metals
Iron and steel
Cotton textile and tobacco
Oil and gas
Dairy and beef
Cotton textile and tobacco
Plessy v Ferguson was an 1896 Supreme Court decision that
upheld segregation.
outlawed segregation.
demanded public school integration.
outlawed chain gangs.
ended the crop-lien system.
upheld segregation.
All Southerners suffered under the rule of racial segregation, whether they realized it or not.
True
False
True
Which is NOT true about westward migration?
It destabilized the frontier and disrupted American Indian life.
It stabilized the frontier and benefited American Indians.
It was difficult to succeed on the frontier if you didn’t have money or power.
While white setters thought the western frontier lands to be up for grabs, in truth they were already populated with American Indians and Hispanos.
It stabilized the frontier and benefited American Indians.
The introduction of _______________ caused Plains Indians like the Comanche and Apache to become more nomadic.
telegraphs
Christianity
monogamy
horses
railroads
horses
George Custer faced this Sioux leader at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Chief Joseph
Sitting Bull
Black Kettle
Geronimo
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse
The textbook editor asserts that this piece of legislation “was more destructive than any blow struck by the [US] army,” because it undermined the communal structure at the center of Indian life.
The Dawes Act
Reservation Treaty
Dancing Rabbit Treaty
Alien Land Law
The Homestead Act
The Dawes Act
The development of the new industrial order required a web of complex industrial systems. Which below is NOT one of those systems?
An international pool of labor
Natural resources and industrial technology
Corn agriculture
Transportation and communication
Finance capital
Corn agriculture
One of the byproducts of industrialization was pollution. Engineers tried to cleanse the polluted Chicago River by reversing its flow. What was the outcome of this?
They contained the pollution, put it on barges, and took it back to the factories who were guilty.
They caused a water shortage in the Chicago River and all of its tributaries.
The succeeded in cleaning the Chicago River and containing the pollution.
They succeeded in shifting pollution to rivers downstate.
There was no impact, positive or negative.
They succeeded in shifting pollution to rivers downstate.
Thomas Edison was a self-made man who exemplifies the American Dream. He worked alone in his home with no assistance from others.
True
False
False
Your instructor once worked as a schematic designer for the corporation founded by George Eastman. What industry did Eastman found?
Standard Oil
Kodak
Polaroid
US Steel
Goodyear
Kodak
Which most closely describes vertical integration?
I own a hamburger restaurant. I have a lot of competition from other burger restaurants in town. So I buy them all and now I can price my burgers however I want, because I have a monopoly on burger restaurants in town.
I own a hamburger restaurant. I am tired of paying other businesses to raise the beef, slaughter the beef, pack the beef, and ship the beef to me. So I buy a farm, raise my own cattle. Then I buy a meat packing facility to butcher and pack my meat. Finally, I buy a transport company to ship my beef to me. Now I don’t have to pay the inflated prices that a bunch of different businesses want to charge me. This maximizes my profit.
I own a hamburger restaurant. I am tired of paying other businesses to raise the beef, slaughter the beef, pack the beef, and ship the beef to me. So I buy a farm, raise my own cattle. Then I buy a meat packing facility to butcher and pack my meat. Finally, I buy a transport company to ship my beef to me. Now I don’t have to pay the inflated prices that a bunch of different businesses want to charge me. This maximizes my profit.
Employers always held the advantage over labor in the new industrial system. Which of the tactics below was NOT used by employers to control labor?
Employers hired labor organizers to help them find common ground with laborers.
Employers spied on labor organizations to sow discord among workers.
Employers fired and blacklisted workers who agitated for better conditions.
Employers used lockouts to bar trouble-making workers.
Employers used the court systems to order injunctions against rowdy laborers.
Employers hired labor organizers to help them find common ground with laborers.
Which most closely describes horizontal integration?
I own a hamburger restaurant. I have a lot of competition from other burger restaurants in town. So I buy them all and now I can price my burgers however I want, because I have a monopoly on burger restaurants in town.
I own a hamburger restaurant. I am tired of paying other businesses to raise the beef, slaughter the beef, pack the beef, and ship the beef to me. So I buy a farm, raise my own cattle. Then I buy a meat packing facility to butcher and pack my meat. Finally, I buy a transport company to ship my beef to me. Now I don’t have to pay the inflated prices that a bunch of different businesses want to charge me. This maximizes my profit.
I own a hamburger restaurant. I am tired of paying other businesses to raise the beef, slaughter the beef, pack the beef, and ship the beef to me. So I buy a farm, raise my own cattle. Then I buy a meat packing facility to butcher and pack my meat. Finally, I buy a transport company to ship my beef to me. Now I don’t have to pay the inflated prices that a bunch of different businesses want to charge me. This maximizes my profit.
Chicago, and other great cities, shaped the natural environment hundreds of miles beyond its city limits. Which is an example of Chicago’s ecological impact far beyond its border?
Chicago’s urban explosion required vast amounts of beaver fur for its growing population to protect itself from frigid temperatures. The Chicago River was turned into a beaver domestication facility, where the animals were raised to later be slaughtered for their fur.
Chicago’s urban explosion occurred at about the same time that smoking pipe tobacco became fashionable. Prairie grasses were replaced by tobacco farms.
The urban explosion in Chicago brought many immigrants, for whom beer was a commonly consumed beverage. Prairie grasses were replaced with hops, which was used to flavor the beer.
Chicago’s urban explosion brought millions of workers to the city who needed rugged clothing. Levi Strauss invented denim jeans and built cotton plantations on the prairies around Chicago, replacing native grasses.
The urban explosion in Chicago meant that there were many mouths to feed, so wheat replaced native grasses on the prairies.
The urban explosion in Chicago meant that there were many mouths to feed, so wheat replaced native grasses on the prairies.
The deadliest slum disease was
Tuberculosis
Dysentery
Rickets
Bubonic Plague
Strep Infection
Tuberculosis
Political machines were only affiliated with the Democratic Party, and they were limited only to urban areas.
True
False
False
Political bosses cheated at the voting polls by
“the Knuckle Under”
“the Balderdash Buster”
“the Colombian White”
“the Rhode Island Red”
“the Tasmanian Dodge”
“the Tasmanian Dodge”
What is most significant about the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act?
It was the opposite of nativism, which promoted the entry of immigrants into the United States.
It had the unintended consequence of stranding a mostly female population inside the United States.
It was the first time that Congress passed a law to limit fertility of one set of immigrants.
It was the last time that Congress used race as an excuse to exclude people from entry into the United States.
It was the first time that Congress used race as an excuse to exclude people from entry into the United States.
It was the first time that Congress used race as an excuse to exclude people from entry into the United States.
