Chapter 13-16 Test

Question 0

What was the morrill act of 1862 and 1890?

Answer 0

It gave federal land to help establish agricultural colleges .

Question 1

What is bimetallism ?

Answer 1

Where farmers wanted the new coins to be made with silver not just gold so that more currency could be made which would drive up prices for their goods.

Question 2

What were the five reforms that the populist party pushed for and became law ?

Answer 2

1) a federal loan plan 2)8-hr workday 3)Graduated Income Tax 4) Election of US Senators by popular vote 5)secret ballot voting

Question 3

Who was Andrew Carnegie ?

Answer 3

Worked his way up to be streaming the richest in the world became rich by the stock market , and producing largest manufacturer of steel.

Question 4

Was vertical integration legal ?

Answer 4

Yes , it is still legal today

Question 5

Is horizontal integration legal today ?

Answer 5

No.

Question 6

What is vertical integration ?

Answer 6

Process in which one buys out the suppliers in order to control the raw materials .

Question 7

Horizontal integration?

Answer 7

Attempting to buy out competitors where companies producing similar products merge together.

Question 8

Who is John D. Rockefeller ?

Answer 8

Made his fortune from oil , founded stander oil companion . Was a robber baron.

Question 9

What was the Sherman anti trust act ?

Answer 9

Made it illegal to have monopolies . Hard to enforce and big businesses will be able to get around the law .

Question 10

What were exodusters ?

Answer 10

A-a’s who moved from the south to Kansas for free land and stuff.

Question 11

What was the last battle of the Indians ?

Answer 11

Wounded knee.

Question 12

What happened at wounded knee ?

Answer 12

The 7th Calvary rounded up 300+ Indians on December 28,1890 and took them to a camp in SD. The Calvary charged and tried to kill them but they ended up being massacred and no one from the Calvary survived.

Question 13

What was a Soddy ?

Answer 13

A dirt and some home commonly built by people moving to the plains.

Question 14

What was a graft ?

Answer 14

The illegal use of political influence for personal gain

Question 15

What was the “golden door “

Answer 15

Entering the United States to make a better life for the incoming immigrants .

Question 16

What were the 3 major contributors to immigration ?

Answer 16

Ireland , scandanavia and Germany .

Question 17

What was Ellis Island ?

Answer 17

It was NYC harbor nice people and often helped immigrants resettle and acclimate to the new world .

Question 18

What was Angel Island ?

Answer 18

San Fran bay , harsh conditions and treatment .

Question 19

What is nativism ?

Answer 19

Overt favoritism toward native born Americans.

Question 20

What was the Chinese exclusion act ?

Answer 20

The Chinese would accept lower wages so many would fear that they would lose their jobs, it also restricted Chinese immigration.

Question 21

What was the gentlemans agreement ?

Answer 21

Japan’s government agreed to limit emigration in return for the repeal of the San Francisco segregation order.

Question 22

What were the five problems cities faced during this time period ?

Answer 22

Housing, transportation, water, sanitation, crime, fire

Question 23

What is a political machine ?

Answer 23

Organized group that controlled all the activities of a political party . The also did corrupt things like spent government money on kickbacks .

Question 24

What is a political boss ?

Answer 24

The person in charge of running the political machine .

Question 25

Tammany Hall ? What was it.

Answer 25

NYC’s powerful democratic political machine . Lead by boss tweed.

Question 26

Rutherford B Hayes ?

Answer 26

1876-1881

Question 27

James Garfield

Answer 27

1881 - He got the Axe

Question 28

Chester A Arthur

Answer 28

1881-1885

Question 29

Grover Cleveland

Answer 29

1885-1889

Question 30

Benjamin Harrison

Answer 30

1889-1893

Question 31

William mckinley

Answer 31

1897-1901

Question 32

Patronage ?

Answer 32

Giving government jobs to people who helped get a candidate elected .

Question 33

Pendleton Service Act ?

Answer 33

Bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to federal jobs through a merit system based on candidates performance .

Question 34

What are granges ?

Answer 34

Organizations of farmers leads to the creation of the populist party.

Question 35

Who was Samuel Gompers ?

Answer 35

A union labor leader .

Question 36

AFL ?

Answer 36

Focused in collective bargaining to reach agreements on wages, hours and working conditions and strikes.

Question 37

Knights of labor ?

Answer 37

Believed that strikes were a last resort and advocated arbitration . African Americans and whites both together .

Question 38

How did education change or improve ?

Answer 38

Immigrants went to school more, adults began to finish their education by going to night school and HBCUS were formed.

Question 39

What did booker t Washington believe about racism ?

Answer 39

He believed that it would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society .

Question 40

What did W.E.B Dubois disagree with Washington about ?

Answer 40

Dubois thought that education was key while Washington thought working was key

Question 41

What were Jim Crow laws ?

Answer 41

Laws that separated whites from blacks In private and public facilties.

Question 42

What were poll taxes ?

Answer 42

Taxes paid annually to vote , ridiculously high .