Gilded Age

Question 1

Who were Freedman’s Bureau?

Answer 1

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Question 2

The differences among Andrew Johnson reconstruction plan and Congress.

Answer 2

Radical Repbulicans believed Congress should control the plan, while Johnson vetos the bill to extend Freedman’s Bureau.

Question 3

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Answer 3

13th Amendment.

Question 4

This amendment guaranteed basic citizenship.

Answer 4

14th Amendment.

Question 5

This amendment forbids state to deny a person to vote on grounds of race.

Answer 5

15th Amendment.

Question 6

An act that was senate permission for president to remove a federal office holder approved by the Senate.

Answer 6

Tenure Office Act.

Question 7

First president impeached?

Answer 7

Andrew Johnson.

Question 8

Who assinated Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 8

John Wilkes Booth.

Question 9

What type of industry expanded South after the Civil War?

Answer 9

Textile.

Question 10

1851 Treaty Name?

Answer 10

Laramie Treaty.

Question 11

The battle also considered as “Custers Last Strand”?

Answer 11

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Question 12

What was the Dawes Act of 1887?

Answer 12

Divided lands.

Question 13

What led to the demise of traditional Native American culture?

Answer 13

Dawes Act, “Americanized” Indians.

Question 14

What did the Southern US States do to stop Blacks from voting?

Answer 14

Literacy tests and poll taxes.

Question 15

What notion was established following Plessy V Fergusen?

Answer 15

“Seperate but Equal”.

Question 16

U.S extending political, miltary, and economic control over territories.

Answer 16

American Imperialism.

Question 17

What land purchases was seen as “Sewards Folly”?

Answer 17

Alaska.

Question 18

What led to the annexation of Hawaii?

Answer 18

White planters seized power.

Question 19

What is “Yellow Journalism”?

Answer 19

Exagerating the truth: newspaper sensationalism.

Question 20

Why did US express interest in Cuba?

Answer 20

Heavy on Cuba’s sugar and mining companies.

Question 21

The vessel that exploded Havana Harbor?

Answer 21

U.S.S Maine.

Question 22

What did historians say was the cause of the Spanish-American War?

Answer 22

Public pressure demanding a war, business leaders wanting a quick resoultion.

Question 23

What industries did ANdrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Corneilus Vanderbuilt invest in?

Answer 23

Railroad industry.