Midterm

Question 1

Included:
-fantastic economic growth
-plentiful natural resources
-an expanding market
-growing labor supply
-capital (money)
-friendly federal government

Answer 1

The second industrial revolution

Question 2

By 1880, for the first time ever most Americans were no longer doing what?

Answer 2

Farming

Question 3

What made the second Industrial Revolution possible?

Answer 3

Railroads

Question 4

When was the Navajo long walk?

Answer 4

1864

Question 5

Skilled workers could secure…

Answer 5

Higher wages

Question 6

Who was considered the captain of industry? Meaning they steer the ship of economy

Answer 6

Richman

Question 7

In the 1880’s, who controlled more then 90% of the nations oil industry?

Answer 7

John D. Rockefeller

Question 8

What name is synonymous with enormous wealth?

Answer 8

John D. Rockefeller

Question 9

In 1890, What class controlled more then 99% of the property?

Answer 9

The top 1% of the richest

Question 10

What does it mean to live an Aristocratic lifestyle?

Answer 10

Being significantly privileged, having a vast amount of Wealth

Question 11

What did buffalo bills Wild West prove?

Answer 11

That the “Wild West” was gone (1880’s)

Question 12

The Rocky Mountains were like a national border

Answer 12

N/A

Question 13

Farming in the west was very difficult especially for…

Answer 13

Women

Question 14

What encouraged National branding?

Answer 14

The Railroad and the creation of a national market

Question 15

What industry did Andrew Carnegie dominate by the 1880’s?

Answer 15

The steel industry

Question 16

What’s a philanthropist

Answer 16

“Lover of humanity”

Question 17

Farmers became dependent on goods as well as…

Answer 17

Loans to purchase those goods

Question 18

When was the golden years of the American cowboy?

Answer 18

1865-1885

Question 19

Between 1865-1885, cowboys became a symbol of…

Answer 19

Freedom

Question 20

Prior to the setlment of the west, the lifestyle of the plains Indians had changed.

Answer 20

N/A

Question 21

Where were The last great tribes?

Answer 21

On the plains

Question 22

1864 was the

Answer 22

Navajo long walk

Question 23

What did the New peace policy in 1869 lead to?

Answer 23

More war

Question 24

What was the 1862 homestead act?

Answer 24

Giving out free land, not good land. But land
-land that was not next to railroad

Question 25

What did farmers on the border begin to engage in in the 1860’s?

Answer 25

Monoculture (growing of a single crop at a time)

Question 26

What did the daws act do?

Answer 26

Broke up tribal land into small family parcels -land not taken by Indians actioned to whites

Question 27

Few Indians accepted what?

Answer 27

Citizenship

Question 28

Religious revival similar to early pan-Indian movements

Answer 28

N/A

Question 29

What did the ghost dance aim to accomplish?

Answer 29

-White people would disappear and buffalo would return -no disease or misery

Question 30

What did the federal government think of the ghost dance? What did they do?

Answer 30

They feared an uprising and sent troops

Question 31

What happened Dec 20, 1890?

Answer 31

Massacre at wounded knee dance

Question 32

By 1900’s, what had the Indian population fallen down to?

Answer 32

250,000

Question 33

After reconstruction, what did southern states sponser?

Answer 33

Racism

Question 34

1890-1906, what did southern states restrict?

Answer 34

Black vote

Question 35

How did southern states restrict black vote?

Answer 35

-Poll tax -Literacy tests -competency tests

Question 36

Pllessy V Ferguson- The ruling in this supreme courts case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for…

Answer 36

“Equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.”

Question 37

About how many people were Lynched par year?

Answer 37

50

Question 38

Who was Booker T. Washington?

Answer 38

A Black leader who replaced confrontation of white supremacy with economic advancement

Question 39

What did Booker T Washington urge during his speech at Atlanta catton expo in 1895

Answer 39

Urged black people to not act against white supremacy and instead to adjust to it

Question 40

What did Women’s arguments for suffrage align with?

Answer 40

Racial norms of the day

Question 41

What was the 1870’s known as?

Answer 41

“New Imperialism”-maybe

Question 42

What did sewards folly buy?

Answer 42

Alaska

Question 43

Why was Alaska bought?

Answer 43

America interested in expanding marketplaces

Question 44

Booker claims that farms and skilled jobs were more important than what?

Answer 44

Civil rights

Question 45

What made booker T Washington say a lot of what he said?

Answer 45

If he didn’t he most likely would’ve been killed

Question 46

What ship blew up Feb 15, 1898? Where did it sink?

Answer 46

USS main was sank in Havana harbor

Question 47

April 1898, McKindly asks for war

Answer 47

NA

Question 48

What made Theodor Rosevelt a national hero?

Answer 48

His charge up San Juan Hill

Question 49

What was Theodore Rosevelt actively involved in during his presidency?

Answer 49

Foreign and domestic affairs

Question 50

The Square Deal

Answer 50

Idk, look it up if time

Question 51

Who was the chosen successor of Rosevelt?

Answer 51

William Henry Taft (fat person)

Question 52

William Henry Taft supported the 16th amendment -fired Gifford Pinchot

Question 53

Who formed the progressive era?

Answer 53

Roosevelt

Question 54

The election of 1912 was a four way contest, all candidates had different ideas of what?

Answer 54

Progressivism

Question 55

Tafts idea of progressivism

Answer 55

Government and business work together

Question 56

Eugene’s idea of progressivism

Answer 56

Was Socialistic

Question 57

Woodrow Wilson’s idea of progressivism

Answer 57

“The new freedom” -stricter anti-trust laws -union protected -encouraged small businesses

Question 58

Roosevelt established an agenda for political Liberalism.

Answer 58

NA

Question 59

The U.S. had the right to police what?

Answer 59

The western hemisphere

Question 60

When was the most military intervention ever at the time in Latin America?

Answer 60

During president Wilson’s Moral Imperialism

Question 61

Wilson intervened in the Mexican civil war

Answer 61

NA

Question 62

What did ww1 cause in production and immigration

Answer 62

An increase in production and a decrease in immigration

Question 63

What were Wilson’s main points of the 14 points

Answer 63

Open diplomacy, Freedom of the seas, self determination, and the League of nations

Question 64

What’s open diplomacy mean I’m Wilson’s 14 points?

Answer 64

No more secret treaties between nations

Question 65

What does freedom of the seas in Wilson’s 14 points mean?

Answer 65

Unrestricted navigation on the oceans for all nations during peacetime

Question 66

What does self-determination mean in Wilson’s 14 points?

Answer 66

The right of nations to chose there own government and political status

Question 67

What is the League of Nations as apart of Wilson’s 14 points?

Answer 67

An international organization designed to resolve disputes peacefully and prevent further wars

Question 68

When did strikes and unions become more common?

Answer 68

In the progressive era and WW1

Question 69

How many people took part in the 1919 steel strike?

Answer 69

360,000 workers

Question 70

What’s was wanted from the steal strike?

Answer 70

Union recondition, higher pay, eight hour work day

Question 71

What did the treaty of Versailles form?

Answer 71

The League of Nations as well as new nations in Eastern Europe

Question 72

1919 and 1929, the U.S. senate regrets the treaty of Versailles

Answer 72

N/A

Question 73

What were the two different looks at women freedom after women gained suffrage?

Answer 73

-Motherhood -individual autonomy and the right to work

Question 74

About how many people did Billy Sunday preach to?

Answer 74

100 million people