Mid-Term Questions

Question 1

Quality of being believable, or worthy of trust.

Answer 1

Credibility

Question 2

Bias

Answer 2

Someone’s preferred personal connection to something, rather than truth or facts. Usually loses credibility in the source as evidence is often set aside

Question 3

Perspective

Answer 3

Someone’s point of view on a given source. Can turn a source into a primary one when mentioned.

Question 4

The process of thoroughly understanding how the time period, the environment, and other factors influenced a historical event.

Answer 4

Contextualization

Question 5

Segregation that is NOT upheld by law, but exists due to personal often racist preferences, economic circumstances, long-existing customs or other factors.

Answer 5

De Facto segregation

Question 6

Sharecropping

Answer 6

A farming practice in the south, black or whites rented small plots of land. This was used a lot during the Reconstruction Era when slaves were able to get their the own land

Question 7

Plessey v. Ferguson

Answer 7

Supreme Court case that let segregation become legal as long as it was “separate but equal”. This was used in the South a lot but it was not equal, as for example there were water fountains but they were separated by having one for whites and the other for blacks, but the water fountain for whites was better than the one for African Americans, showing that in the south they took advantage of this case which lead to this method being overused in the Jim Crow era

Question 8

Greenbook

Answer 8

A book made for African Americans about safe places to visit or just stay during the night to prevent conflicts with the racist south. African Americans used this a lot when they had the travel to the South, this book would tell them about good hotels and overall cities that are more friendly to African Americans than others in the south.

Question 9

Negro Project

Answer 9

Made to commit a “silent genocide” on African Americans by telling women to take birth control so Black people can’t keep reproducing so they go extinct in the future, but it miserably failed. This was a used method out of many that racists used towards black people during the Jim Crow Era to suppress them.

Question 10

Vertical Integration

Answer 10

a business strategy used by industrialists to control all aspects of manufacturing of the product, this was a very common strategy industrialist used during the 1800s; industrialists like Andrew Carnegie used this strategy for his steel-making company

Question 11

Nicola Tesla

Answer 11

Born in Croatia, moved to NYC in 1884. And began working as an engineer for Thomas Edison, and his Direct Current Electrical System invention became very popular and used in the late 1800s

Question 12

Which innovation led to the practice of installment plan payments?

Answer 12

sewing machine

Question 13

What was the Bessemer process?

Answer 13

a steel-making process in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed by blasting compressed air into molten iron.

Question 14

Research Lab

Answer 14

One of Edison’s most important inventions was the “Menlo Park”, this creation made the smartest people alive unite as one group and revolutionize the world in the future. These research labs are also still used to this day

Question 15

Which of the following innovators developed the business practice of horizontal integration?

Answer 15

John D Rockefeller

Question 16

Model T

Answer 16

First important car ever built. Cars used to be expensive and only rich people were able to get them, but not anymore due to Henry Ford’s invention that now the average American was able to afford in which revolutionized our ways of traveling

Question 17

Which of the following individuals was known to be a leader of the American eugenics movement?

Answer 17

Margaret Sanger

Question 18

What is photographer Don Bartelli famous for capturing?

Answer 18

Illegal immigration from Central American into the US.

Question 19

Which American immigrant group is best described here: This immigrant group primarily left their homeland due to ethnic discrimination. When they arrived in the US they primarily settled in Eastern cities where they typically worked as entrepreneurs and street vendors.

Answer 19

Jewish Immigrants

Question 20

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 20

Passed by Congress, it prevented Chinese immigration for the next 10 years in the U.S. This impacted Chinese families who wanted to see their families or worked to bring their families to the U.S. It also happened because of racism against Chinese immigrants

Question 21

Which island was the major entrance point for Chinese and Japanese immigrants on the American west coast?

Answer 21

Angel Island

Question 22

Hull House

Answer 22

nation’s most influential apartment complex for poor immigrants; converted by Jane Adams. This helped poor immigrants have a roof under where they live and have slightly better living conditions than before.

Question 23

Chain Migration

Answer 23

immigrants move to a specific destination of a city or town that is full of people of their own ethnicity or race. Later this would form popular places such as “Little Italy”, “China Town”, etc.

Question 24

Tenements

Answer 24

Apartment rooms were divided into living spaces for immigrants; they lived in very cramped rooms. This led to poor living conditions for immigrants as they also didn’t have a good pumbling system, ventilation, etc.

Question 25

Which dry reformer was known to be the leader of the Anti-Saloon League?

Answer 25

Wayne Wheeler

Question 26

Wickersham Commission

Answer 26

a crime commission to make recommendations for improving the enforcement of National Prohibition. This commission by President Hoover tried to get rid of the high crime rates in the country by finding different types of solutions

Question 27

Carrie Nation

Answer 27

A Kansas native and wife of a dead drunkard. This reform group believed alcohol was evil and needed to go, supporting the cause of Prohibition which would later occur.

Question 28

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

Answer 28

the brutal murder of seven members and associates of Chicago’s North Side Gang, some of these members were policemen which exposed the truth of more corruption in the police system during Prohibition

Question 29

Which law was known to strengthen the punishment and increase the fines for those violating prohibition?

Answer 29

Jones Act

Question 30

Volstead Act

Answer 30

an enforcement law that contained 67 separate sections about how Prohibition should be enforced, this law “gave teeth” to the 18th Amendment in which was used a lot during this time period.

Question 31

What caused many of the severe burns of soldiers fighting in Iraq & Afghanistan?

Answer 31

IEDs or roadside bombs

Question 32

Controversial law that punished people for aiding the enemy, making speeches that criticized the War, or refusing military duty during WW1.

Answer 32

Espionage Act

Question 33

Spanish Influenza

Answer 33

one of the most deadly diseases in WWI that was the main cause of death in the war, this led to medical advancements as scientist now had to study the virus and come up with a cure

Question 34

Lusitania

Answer 34

a British passenger ship carrying American people in it that was torpedoed by German Submarines in 1915 and sunk. This started the spark of America declaring war on Germany later on in 1917

Question 35

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 35

A treaty that gave the Allies the win in WWI and heavily punished Germany with very expensive war funds and restrictions such as their military, this treaty in the future would be the cause of WWII

Question 36

Industrial Warfare

Answer 36

the mass production of new technology and machinery around WWI, led to a new era of combat in war as some countries had advantages over others due to their industrialization.