Final

Question 1

Which of the following was NOT a component of Crittenden Compromise?

Answer 1

Annexation of Cuba

Question 2

At the start of the Civil War, most people belied which of the following statements to be true?

Answer 2

One quick and decisive battle would decide the outcome

Question 3

What ultimately ended slavery throughout the U.S.?

Answer 3

13th Amendment

Question 4

Which Civil War constitutional amendment defined citizenship and guaranteed all Americans the right to “due process”? (fill in the blank)

Answer 4

14

Question 5

Every state where slavery was legal eventually seceded from the Union.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Southern state laws passed soon after the Civil War and aimed at suppressing the political and economic rights of African Americans were called what?

Answer 6

Black Codes

Question 7

How many engagements did the U.S. Army fight against Native Americans between 1865 and 1890? (Fill in the blank)

Answer 7

950

Question 8

Sort these events into chronological order. (Sorting)

Answer 8

1. The start of the American Civil War
2. The Sand Creek Massacre
3. The Battle of the Washita
4. The Great Sioux War
5. The Wounded Knee Massacre

Question 9

The Morrill Act set aside millions of acres of federal land for the establishment of what?

Answer 9

Agricultural schools

Question 10

The business strategy of acquiring control of every level of production from, in the case of the railroads, the mining of iron to the forging and transportation of rails was called ______.

Answer 10

Vertical Integration

Question 11

The 1890 book, ______, provided the first public ecpose on how the working poor living in NYC, highlighting the miserable conditions and hopeless of outlooks of boarding houses and tenements. (Fill in the blank)

Answer 11

How the Other Half Lives

Question 12

Restricted to the bottom of the ladder in the national labor market, women, children, and African Americans rarely, if ever, received the same wages as white men. Indeed, in most cases, they received wages 70% below those of their adult white male counterparts.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Match the political ideology to its most desired “end.” (Matching)

Answer 13

Laissez-faire, End of governmental regulations of private business

Socialism, End of private control over means of production

Anarchism, End of state

Temperance, End of alcohol sale and consumption

Question 14

Which immigrant groups faced the most struggles in the U.S. in the late 1800s?

Answer 14

The Chinese

Question 15

This president led the nation during the Spanish American War (fill in the blank)

Answer 15

McKinley

Question 16

Scientist Francis Galton pioneered this theory

Answer 16

Eugenics

Question 17

When did the U.S. annex Hawaii? (fill in the blank

Answer 17

1898

Question 18

Match the following historical terms (matching)

Answer 18

Eugenics
Helped to justify sterilization

Chain migration
Friends and family relocating to a new nation

Nativism
Resistance to immigration

Social Darwinism
Belief that the rich possess innate gifts

The Treaty of Portsmouth
Negotiated by President Theodore Roosevelt

The Teller Amendment
Pledged America would not make Cuba a colony

Mahanism
ideology emphasizing naval strength and imperialism

The Platt Amendment
Made Cuba an American protectorate

Tenements
low income urban dwellings

Question 19

State where anti-Chinese riots occurred in 1871 and 1877 (map)

Answer 19

California

Question 20

Woodrow Wilson’s platform in the 1912 election was called ____.

Answer 20

New Freedom

Question 21

The “Crime of 1873” refers to which of the following?

Answer 21

The discontinuation of using silver as a basis for the American Dollar

Question 22

If you supported the Greenbackers, what did you want?

Answer 22

An increase in paper currency without precious metal backing

Question 23

What type of precious metals were used to “back” American currency before the mid-20th century?

Answer 23

Gold and Silver

Question 24

Which region of the country was the first to support women’s suffrage?

Answer 24

The West

Question 25

In what year did the “Red Scare” begin? (Fill in the blank)

Answer 25

1919

Question 26

State attacked by Pancho Villa (map)

Answer 26

New Mexico