Exam 1

Question 1

“You furnish the pictures….”

Answer 1

• Hearst, the publisher of the New York Journal sent a journalist to Cuba at the time that Spain occupied Cuba.
• The journalist said, “Everything is quiet. There is no trouble”
• Hearst asks him to please stay, and said, “You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.”

Question 2

13th Amendment

Answer 2

• 1865
• Abolished slavery
• “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Question 3

14th Amendment

Answer 3

• 1868
• All persons born or naturalized in the US, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

Question 4

15th Amendment

Answer 4

• 1870
• right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Question 5

American Exceptionalism

Answer 5

• It is the story that there has never been a country like us, meaning we can make our own rules.
• This basically implied that we are better.
• We were trying to figure ourselves out.

Question 6

Anti-Miscegenation Laws

Answer 6

• Laws regarding racial segregation.
• Dealt with interracial marriages and intimate relationships.
• Were not nation wide, but were enforced in some states.

Question 7

Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk

Answer 7

• Published in 1836
• Written by a former nun who had escaped from the Hotel Dieu nunnery in Montreal.
• Exposed the iniquity of the Catholic convent system.

Question 8

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 8

• 1899 China.
• Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists.
• Tried to violently purify the land.
• They decimated people.
• Anti-Christian and Anti-Foreign

Question 9

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Answer 9

• Stated that people of all races must be granted equal access to all places of public entertainment.

Question 10

Compromise of 1850

Answer 10

1. California is made a free state.
2. Ends slave trade in Washington D.C.
3. Creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty
4. Fugitive Slave Law- Slave owners can use the courts to get their slaves back.

Question 11

Compromise of 1877

Answer 11

• Rutherford Hayes was elected president in 1876.
• South was very upset by this.
• Hayes withdrew the union troops from the south, therefore ending the reconstruction era.
• South then believe they have won.

Question 12

Cult of True Womanhood

Answer 12

• Men and women having separate natures.
• Women’s nature, the cult of domesticity.
• Women are pious and pure.
• A true woman is submissive.
• Sentimental motherhood: women were nice and wanted kids.

Question 13

Dred Scott Decision of 1857

Answer 13

• Slave born in Missouri.
• His owner was an army doctor, he was the butler.
• They moved to Illinois together.
• Master went to Florida, never came back.
• His great niece inherited Dred Scott.
• He sues her saying the he was abandoned in a free slate, trial is held in Missouri.
• He took an L, but appeals to the supreme court.
• They rule that non citizens cannot use the court system.

Question 14

Evangelina Cisnero’s Story

Answer 14

• Lived in Cuba with a maid.
• She rarely went out, only to get food, and to church.
• She would always locked the doors to her house, one night she heard banging.
• 5 spanish soldiers said, “We’re here to rape you”
• They then arrested her.
• An american journalist rescued her from prison.
• They then went to the U.S., where she was praised.
• This was fake, the soldiers were looking for her father, but she pulled out a knife and threatened them.

Question 15

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Answer 15

1. 10 Mile strip called Canal Zone. US owned
2. $10 million, 250k per year
3. This is permanent, secured the rights in perpetuity.
4. The US Guaranteed to protect Panama’s independence.

Question 16

Open Door Note

Answer 16

• Diplomatic note written by Secretary of State John Jay in 1899.
• Sent to the European countries occupying china.(JFERG)
• Announced that China should remain an “Open Door” to european and american trade.
• Also stated that other countries should not try and take control of Chinese ports or territories.
• Only Japan answered

Question 17

Platt Amendment

Answer 17

1. Cuba cannot make treaties with any other countries, except for the US.
2. Cuba cannot make any other trade agreements.
3. Gave the US the right to intervene as was fit.
4. Gave US a perpetual lease on Guantanamo Bay.

Question 18

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 18

• He’s breaded and is lighter than a brown paper bag.
• Wants to go on a train, and decides to buy a first class ticket.
• He buys it, no heat, but when he gives it to the conductor, he gets denied and is sent to the back.
• He sues them, and the supreme court rules that segregation is legal everywhere, as long as facilities exist for both, and are equal. WTF?

Question 19

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 19

• Lincoln declared all slaves in areas under rebellion free as of January 1, 1863.
• This was a pivotal moment during the war because it was the first time that Lincoln declared any slaves, no matter where they were located, free.

Question 20

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

Answer 20

• 1904
• In certain circumstances, the United States was justified to intervene in Latin American nations to prevent Europeans from doing so.

Question 21

Second Mississippi Plan

Answer 21

• Poll tax was in place, making it hard for blacks to vote.
• Literacy tests were created to not allow people who couldn’t read to vote
• A clean criminal record was also required.

Question 22

Sharecropping

Answer 22

• System for former slaves.
• Landowner provided land, seed, and tools to a poor farmer in exchange for a share of the crop.
• Many of them found themselves in debt over the years.
• This meant that they had to continue working for the landowner.

Question 23

Teller Amendment

Answer 23

• Essentially a declaration of war on Spain.
• We continue to tell ourselves that we are not going to take Cuba.
• Instead we take the Philippines and Guam

Question 24

The Grandfather Clause

Answer 24

• Provided that those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1866 would be chillin.
• Their lineal descendants, would also be chillin from the second Mississippi plan

Question 25

The Know-Nothings

Answer 25

• Now the American Party.
• When asked about it, members were told to say, “I know nothing”
• Hated immigrants and catholics.

Question 26

The Lost Cause

Answer 26

• A story that the south created after the war stating that they were too good to exist.
• Monuments started being put up on how good the south was.

Question 27

The Yellow Peril

Answer 27

• Heavy racism against Chinese.
• They were viewed as a danger to the western world.
• If they didn’t have a ponytail, they were not considered cool.

Question 28

Treaty of Paris 1898: 3 Parts

Answer 28

1. Cuba became independent from Spain, we protected them.
2. Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines were ceded to the United States.
3. We paid Spain $20 million.

Question 29

Turner’s Frontier Thesis

Answer 29

• 1893
• Fredrick Jackson Turner
• Writes a book based on his review of the 1890 census.
• “The frontier is gone and with its going has closed the first period of American history.”
• Essentially established that now, America actually has history.
• Frontier is gone meaning that now Americans have access to the entire west coast, America is finally “open”

Question 30

Victoria Woodhull

Answer 30

• An American leader of the woman’s suffrage movement.
• First woman to run for President in 1872.
• Free love- the state should not legally enforce who you love.