Midterm

Question 1

Former Confederate Vice-President was elected to the U.S. Senate from Georgia during Reconstruction

Answer 1

Alexander Stephens

Question 2

This was the last of the southern states to secede and the first of the former Confederate states to be reconstructed

Answer 2

Tennessee

Question 3

He vetoed the bill to extend the life of the Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 3

Andrew Johnson

Question 4

Johnson’s firing of the Secretary of War, whom was an ally of the Radical Republicans, led directly to the president’s impeachment

Answer 4

Edwin Stanton

Question 5

This amendment to the Constitution forbade states to deny the right to vote based on race

Answer 5

Fifteenth

Question 6

This president’s plan of Reconstruction required 10% of a state’s voters to take a loyalty oath

Answer 6

Abraham Lincoln

Question 7

This amendment provided that states treat all citizens equally

Answer 7

Fourteenth

Question 8

This is referred to restoring the former Confederate states to a normal relationship with the Union

Answer 8

Reconstruction

Question 9

For most southern whites the greatest objection to Reconstruction was that it allowed blacks to participate in ___

Answer 9

politics

Question 10

This was a former four-term governor of Georgia, was later elected to the U.S. Senate despite having changed political affiliation from Democrat to Confederate to Unionist to Republican and finally back to Democrat

Answer 10

Joseph Brown

Question 11

Georgia was readmitted to the Union in

Answer 11

1868

Question 12

This president’s Reconstruction program was rooted in his belief that the southern states had never left the Union, because the Constitution did not allow for secession

Answer 12

Andrew Johnson

Question 13

This program was a government agency designed, among other purposes, to assist former slaves in making the transition to freedom

Answer 13

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 14

Which two groups of immigrants figured prominently in the hard work of laying track for the railroad

Answer 14

The Chinese and the Irish

Question 15

The Homestead Act offered _____ acres to white settlers who could maintain their property for ____ years

Answer 15

160 acres, 5 years

Question 16

The post-Reconstruction South was a difficult place for freed African Americans to enter society as new citizens. A caravan of 300 freed African Americans known as _______ left Kentucky and settled in Nicodemus, Kansas.

Answer 16

Exodusters

Question 17

This was completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California’s railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the West

Answer 17

transcontinental railroad

Question 18

This person coined the phrase manifest destiny in 1839

Answer 18

John O’Sullivan

Question 19

Passed in 1887, this act called for the breakup of the reservations
and the treatment of Indians as individuals rather than tribes, it provided for the
distribution of 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land to any Indian
who accepted the act’s terms, who would then become a U.S. citizen in 25 years

Answer 19

Dawes Severalty Act

Question 20

At this battle, in June 1876, General George Custer unwisely
divided his troops, and a numerically superior force of Native Americans wiped out
him and all his men.

Answer 20

Little Bighorn

Question 21

On December 29, 1890 the ____ occurred after an excited
Native American fired a rifle shot, then U.S. Army troops massacred 300 Indians,
including seven children

Answer 21

Battle at Wounded Knee

Question 22

This was the richest silver deposit in American history
discovered in Nevada

Answer 22

The Comstock Lode

Question 23

Many homes on the Great Plains were dugouts that were built from bricks or
slabs of ___ covered with grass

Answer 23

sod

Question 24

The Plains Indians final defeat has more to do with the destruction of the ______ herds than military losses

Answer 24

buffalo

Question 25

When workers disrupted rail (and mail) service in 1894 by boycotting sleeping cars owned by the _______ Company, the federal government intervened to crush the strike.

Answer 25

Pullman

Question 26

A protest meeting organized in May 1886 by anarchists in Chicago, resulted in a bomb blast that killed several policemen and is known as

Answer 26

The Haymarket affair

Question 27

The Knights of Labor claimed several victories in railroad strikes throughout 1884-1885, including one against notorious “robber baron”

Answer 27

Jay Gould

Question 28

Western Union, which had originally turned down Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, went on to commission ______ to invent an improved version of the telephone

Answer 28

Thomas Edison

Question 29

Andrew Carnegie chose his ally _____ to direct his steel company's assault against its unionized workers

Answer 29

Henry Clay Frick

Question 30

Frederick W. Taylor developed an approach to managing workers, called ______, which attempted to get the maximum work from the individual worker

Answer 30

scientific management

Question 31

In the petroleum industry during the 1870, ______ built his firm, ______, partly by taking over rival firms and partly by building a national distribution system to reach the enormous market for kerosene as a home fuel

Answer 31

John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil

Question 32

The American Federation of Labor was led by _______ from its inception until his death in 1924

Answer 32

Samuel Gonpers

Question 33

established the significant mail-order business in 1872

Answer 33

Aaron Montgomery Ward

Question 34

was a “robber baron” who truly cared about the success of his railroad enterprise and its positive impact on the American economy

Answer 34

Cornelius Vanderbuilt

Question 35

In the 1870s, Irish coal miners in eastern Pennsylvania formed a secret organization known as the

Answer 35

Molly Maguires

Question 36

The Stalwarts, led by Senator____ supported the ____ system

Answer 36

Roscoe Conkling, spoils

Question 37

After the Republican nomination of Blaine in 1884 the ______ broke away from both the Stalwarts and Half-Breeds in disgust

Answer 37

Mugwumps

Question 38

Political machines in late-nineteenth-century America tended toward one-man rule, such as Boss Tweed who ran New York City’s “machine” known as

Answer 38

Tammany Hall

Question 39

The only Democrat to be elected president during the Gilded Age (1870-1900) was

Answer 39

Grover Cleveland

Question 40

The ______ of 1883 created a list of federal jobs to be filled on the basis of examination results

Answer 40

Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

Question 41

The Redeemers came to power in the South following the election of 1876, thanks in large part to the efforts of the ____ in Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, as well as the ____ in Louisiana

Answer 41

Red Shirts, White League

Question 42

In the election of 1876, ________, _____ and ______ failed to determine who won their election and sent both Democratic and Republican electors to the electoral college in December of 1876

Answer 42

Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina

Question 43

The Populist Party grew out of the ____ Alliance when its proposals were rebuffed by the Democratic Party as too radical

Answer 43

Farmer's

Question 44

The issue of free ___ emerged as the cardinal demand of the Populist Party

Answer 44

silver

Question 45

In the 1890s, the white Georgia Populist _____ had advocated a political alliance of African American and poor white farmers, but he became a vicious race baiter after African Americans were effectively excluded from the vote.

Answer 45

Thomas Watson

Question 46

The ____ Act required the federal government to mint 4,500,000 ounces of silver coins per month

Answer 46

Sherman Silver Purchase

Question 47

perhaps the most well-known female muckraker, wrote a series of articles on the dangers of John D. Rockefeller’s powerful monopoly, Standard Oil

Answer 47

Ida Tarbell

Question 48

drew public attention to some of the most glaring inequities and scandals that grew out of the social ills of the Gilded Age and the hands-off approach of the federal government since the end of Reconstruction

Answer 48

Muckrakers

Question 49

It was not until _____ unexpectedly became president in 1901 that the federal government would engage in Progressive reforms

Answer 49

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 50

Another series of reforms pushed forward by ____ that sought to sidestep the power of special interests in state legislatures and restore the democratic political process were three election innovations—the initiative, referendum, and recall

Answer 50

Progressives

Question 51

An energetic speaker and tireless Progressive, Governor Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette turned the state of ____ into a flagship for democratic reform

Answer 51

Wisconsin

Question 52

In 1916, the pressure from the NCLC and the general public resulted in the passage of the Keating-Owen Act, which prohibited the interstate trade of any goods produced with

Answer 52

child labor

Question 53

On March 25, 1911 a fire broke out at the _____ on the eighth floor of the Asch building in New York City, resulting in the deaths of 146 garment workers, most of them young, immigrant women

Answer 53

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

Question 54

In the United States, several newspaper editors openly questioned the purchase of Alaska and labeled it

Answer 54

"Seward's Folly"

Question 55

was a Southern Baptist missionary who spent more than forty years living and working in China

Answer 55

Lottie Moon

Question 56

Historian Fredrick Jackson Turner’s _____ stated explicitly that the existence of the western frontier forged the very basis of the American identity

Answer 56

Frontier Thesis

Question 57

When Queen Liliuokalani tapped into a strong anti-American resentment among native Hawaiians over the economic and political power of exploitative American sugar companies between 1891 and 1893, worried businessmen worked with the American minister to Hawaii, _____, to stage a quick, armed revolt to counter her efforts and seize the islands as an American protectorate

Answer 57

John Stevens

Question 58

The Spanish-American War was the first significant international military conflict for the United States since its war against ____ in 1846; it came to represent a critical milestone in the country’s development as an empire

Answer 58

Mexico

Question 59

By 1898, Americans thought of the Spanish colonial regime in ___ as a typical example of European imperialism

Answer 59

Cuba

Question 60

The Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898 gave international recognition to the fact that there was a new American empire that included the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and ____

Answer 60

Guam