Final Flashcards
“A league of friendship and perpetual union” describes what?
The Articles of Confederation
“Bleeding Kansas” refers to the fact that …
A virtual territorial civil war was taking place
“Street-carsuburbs” was the nickname given to the areas that who settled in after they left the city?
The middle class moved to when they left the city
A network of abolitionists that helped thousands of enslaved people flees north.
Underground Railroad
After capturing Atlanta, William Tecumseh Sherman set fires to destroy railroads,warehouses, mills, and factories, but what happened?
The fires spread destroying more than one-third of Atlanta
After Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, the Cherokee in Georgia respondedby doing what?
Appealing to the Supreme Court
Andrew Carnegie brought this process to the US and used it in his steel mills.
Bessemer process
Because cities were crowded, especially in parts of the city where lower income familiesmade their homes, crowding lead to the development of what kind of living?
Tenement living
Big business and competition led to many small companies going…
Going out of business
By the1890s, immigrants made up a significant percentage of some of the countries largest what?
Cities
California was a frontier province of country?
Mexico
Colonia lresistance and increasing violence forced Britain to repeal the many of theduties, except for the tax on
Tea
Combining many firms engaged in the same type of business into one corporation is called (What Rockefeller and Standard Oil did)?
Horizontal integration
Congressout lawed the slave trade in what year?
1808
Declarationof Independence was posted on what date? (full date please!)
July 4, 1776
Defying theorders of the government agent at the reservation, the Lakota Sioux continuedto perform a ritual called the
Ghost Dance
Demand forslave labor rises as cotton plantations do what to the Southern economy?
Cotton plantations boost the Southern economy
Scott v. Sandford was a court case that stated Scott was not what, so he couldn’twhat?
Not a citizen and therefore could not sue in the courts
During hisinaugural address on March 4, 1861, Lincoln promised not to do what?
Promised not to interfere with slavery where it existed
During the Homestead Strike at Andrew Carnegie’s steel mill, Henry Clay Frick brought inwhich agency to protect the replacement workers he had hired.
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Early prospectors would extract shallow deposits of ore by using this kind of mining.
Placer mining
safety and reliability reasons, the American Railway Association divided the country into these in 1883.
The four time zones
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes _____, widely thought of as a catalyst for the Civil War.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Having live-n servants, freed the time of middle class housewives to do what?
Join “Women’s clubs”
How did emancipation affect the South’s agricultural system?
Threw it into chaos
How did Lincoln block the Wade-Davis bill?
Pocket veto
How did Lincoln want the North and the South to be reunited?
Without punishing the South for treason
How did railroad managers end the Pullman Strike and get the ARU back to work?
Railroad managers attached U.S. mail cars to the Pullman cars
How did share croppers pay the rent on their farms?
paid with a share of their crops
How do Southerners see the election of Lincoln?
As a threat to their way of life
How many Cherokee died on the Trail of Tears?
About 2,000
If California entered the Union as a free state, the slaveholding states wouldbecome a minority in what part of the federal government?
Senate
In 1819 Missouri’s application for statehood brought up the question about theexpansion of what
Should slavery expand westward
In 1849, over 80,000 “Forty- Niners” had arrived in California where they were seeking what?
Gold
In 1856, Kansas had two of these. What did each stand for?
Two governments, one antislavery government, one pro-slavery government
In 1860, approximately what percentage of the nation’s factories were located inNorthern states?
90
In 1862 thegovernment encouraged settlement on the Great Plains by passing
The Homestead Act
In 1883,the Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation by overturning the
Civil Rights Act of 1875
In Lincoln’s last speech he talked about his plan to restore the Southern statesto the Union and include who in Southern state governments?
African Americans
In the Homestead Act the registration fee for 160 acres was
$10
In the late1890s, the most common form of mass transit in cities was the
Horse car
Industrial workers with special skills and training were known as
Craft workers
Lincoln interpreted his reelection as a mandate to
End slavery permanently by amending the Constitution
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus for anyone who openly did what?
Supported the rebels or encouraged others to resist the draft
What is Manifest Destiny? Did a Majority of Americans believe in it?
Idea that the nation was meant to spread to the Pacific Ocean Majority of Americans believed in it idea of divine sanction for the territorial expansion of the United States
Many labor unions opposed immigration, arguing that most immigrants
Many labor unions opposed immigration, arguing that most immigrants
Mexico had encouraged Americans to settle the Mexican region of
Texas
Mississippi took the first step to prohibit African Americans from voting when it required that all citizens registering to vote pay a
Poll tax
Missouri requested admission as a
Slave state
Nativism in the late 1800s was focused on eastern Europeans, Jews, and
Asians
On January 31, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed banning what?
Slavery
On May 10,1869, five gold and silver spikes were hammered into the rails at Promontory Summit, Utah signifying the joining of what?
Transcontinental Railroad
On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in the states still in what?
Rebellion after January 1, 1863
Popularculture changed in the late 1800s because industrialization improved thestandard of living for many people, enabling them to spend more money on
Entertainment
