American History Post 1877 - Q1

Question 1

14th Ammendment

Answer 1

Defined Citizenship
Gave all former slaves American Citizenship
Established that all citizens are equal under the law

Question 2

Reconstruction

Answer 2

The rebuilding of both infrastructure and culture in the South after the American Civil War

Question 3

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 3

A program in which Northern teachers were sent to the South to teach former slaves literacy, financial planning, vocational training, etc.

Question 4

Sharecropping

Answer 4

A system in which people (usually former slaves) were provided land, but had to provide the former landowner a portion of their crop

Question 5

Why was sharecropping problematic?

Answer 5

Sharecroppers were kept in continuous poverty debt to their landlords, so that landlords still effectively owned the sharecroppers

Question 6

15th Ammendment

Answer 6

Gave all male citizens the right to vote, regardless of race

Question 7

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 7

18th President, R, supported reconstruction

Question 8

How did the supreme court hinder reconstruction?

Answer 8

They declared that the military could not arrest civilians

Civilians had to be tried in local courts and therefore were often unpunished

Question 9

Democratic Party (Pre WWII)

Answer 9

America’s conservative party and the primary political party of the South
Opposed reconstruction and racial equality, supported segregation

Question 10

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 10

19th President, R, lost popular vote but won electoral college vote

Democrats agreed to let him attain the presidency in exchange for the end of reconstruction

Question 11

Samuel J. Tilden

Answer 11

Candidate for 19th President, D, won popular vote but lost electoral college vote

His party agreed to cede claim to presidency in exchange for end of reconstruction

Question 12

Black Codes

Answer 12

Laws intended to limit black people’s rights to own or lease property, conduct business, or use public space

Question 13

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 13

Business Mogul, America’s First Billionaire

Question 14

Four reasons for business boom in the U.S. in the late 1800s

Answer 14

• Cheap Energy
• Abundant, cheap labor
• Little-to-no government oversight
• Culture of competition

Question 15

10% Plan

Answer 15

Abraham Lincoln’s plan for reconciliation with the south

• 10% of citizens from each Southern State swore to uphold federal and state laws
• Each Southern state abolished slavery

Question 16

50% Plan

Answer 16

Congress’s plan for reconciliation with the South, and the plan that was actually used

• 50% of citizens from each Southern state swore to uphold federal and state laws
• Each Southern state abolished slavery

Question 17

Military Reconstruction

Answer 17

Military occupation of the Southern states following the Civil War

Question 18

Percentage of the workforce that was female by 1900

Answer 18

25%

Question 19

State where oil was first found

Answer 19

Pennsylvania

Question 20

The group that created time zones

Answer 20

Railraod companies

Question 21

Amount of land on either side of their tracks that railroad companies received

Answer 21

6 miles

Question 22

Emigration

Answer 22

Migration within a country, rather than from outside

Question 23

Immigration

Answer 23

Migration into a country from outside

Question 24

Center for meat packing industry

Answer 24

Chicago

Question 25

Hull House

Answer 25

A repurposed mansion in Chicago that provided childcare, vocational training, etc. for immigrants

Founded by Jane Addams

Question 26

Jane Addams

Answer 26

Founder of social work as a profession, and the first American woman to receiving the Nobel Peace Prize

Founded the Hull House in Chicago

Question 27

Homestead Act

Answer 27

A program where the government provided 160 acres of land free to anyone willing to move to Montana, South Dakota, etc

Question 28

Which Highway near McAlester was part of the cattle drive?

Answer 28

Hwy 75