Tri 3 Final

Question 1

Results of industry growth during 1800s

Answer 1

Cities grew
Population increased
Growth of middle class

Question 2

Jim Crow laws

Answer 2

Laws that separated whites and blacks in public places

Question 3

What happened to the federal gov power over state govs because of the civil war?

Answer 3

It strengthened, proving that individual states had limited power

Question 4

How did the civil war effect te economy of the north?

Answer 4

Prospered
Industry soared
Employment rates increased
RR mileage added

Question 5

Leading cause of death in the Civil War

Answer 5

Wounds led to infection

Question 6

Did the 13-15 amendments stop all oppression of African Americans in the late 1800s?

Answer 6

No. Although these are known as the civil rights amendments, African Americans still lacked basic civil rights.
Denied credit, housing, and jobs
Bullied and harassed

Question 7

Which amendment forced states to guarantee the bill of rts to all citizens?

Answer 7

14: made former slaves = citizens under the law & provided = protection

Question 8

Did radical republicans agree with Lincoln’s plan to offer amnesty to most former confederates?

Answer 8

No. Their plan Wade-Davis bill punished 50% of whites in the south Lincoln’s plan only punished the confederate leaders

Question 9

Effects of 13-15 amendments

Answer 9

13- freed slaves
14- = citizenship, = protection ( not actually)
15- right to vote cannot be denied based on race, but south created poll taxes and literacy tests

Question 10

What happened to most native americans during 1860-1890?

Answer 10

Pushed off land ➡reservations b/c white settlers wanted profits from buffalo and gold

Question 11

How was the Homestead Act an expression of manifest destiny?

Answer 11

It gave settlers money from government (subsidized funds) to move West

Question 12

How was the transcontinental railroad an expression of manifest destiny?

Answer 12

It connected the east to the west, and increased trade opportunities (products moved quicker)

Question 13

Why were Indian wars fought in late 1800s?

Answer 13

White settlers wanted buffalo, gold, land, and other resources that native Americans always enjoyed
Black kettle, Geronimo, sitting Bull-all killed

Question 14

Nativism

Answer 14

Placing the nation’s interests above All else,
Against immigration
Americans 1st
(strict immigration laws)

Question 15

Advantages of both sides in the civil war?

Answer 15

North-

• Better banks.
• RRs.
• More $.
• Factories.
• Better recourses

South

• Fought with determination
• Home turf
• White population in favor

Question 16

Where did most immigrants settle when they came to the U.S? Why?

Answer 16

Industrial centers on both coasts (Philly, Boston, NYC, and out west). The big cities had factory jobs

Question 17

How did sectional differences affect presidential election of 1860?

Answer 17

• union (north) supported Lincoln

- confederacy (south) supported Jefferson Davis

Question 18

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Answer 18

The supreme court ruled that slaves were property and cannot be taken without due process of the law (supported slavery)

Question 19

Plessy V. Ferguson

Answer 19

Schools are separate but equal

Question 20

What do the Dred Scott and Plessy cases have in common?

Answer 20

They both discriminated against African Americans

Question 21

Did Lincoln pledge to eliminate slavery when he was first elected? What did he promise?

Answer 21

No. He promised to keep the union together

Question 22

What was Lincoln’s justification for the emancipation proclamation?

Answer 22

Slavery was immoral, and he wanted to encourage slaves to run away

Question 23

In the Gettysburg Address, what does Lincoln say the purpose of the civil war is?

Answer 23

To uphold the deceleration of te founding fathers “all men are created equal”

Question 24

Emancipation Proclamation- what did it do?

Answer 24

It made Europeans decide not to give support to the confederacy

Question 25

Lincoln’s House-Divided speech

Answer 25

Encourage south to remain in the union, or else face war and a collapse of unity in the country

Question 26

What was the Seneca Falls convention?

Answer 26

Woman’s rights convention, and they drafted their own deceleration of independence

Question 27

What conditions led the south to allow slavery but not the north?

Answer 27

The south had fertile ground which yielded large cash crops.

The north was industry based, cold climate, and no large plantations would grow. (geographical factors and natural resources)

Question 28

What was Lincoln’s justification for fighting the civil war?

Answer 28

Slavery immoral
A house divided against itself will fail
To preserve the power of the federal government

Question 29

Important reform movements of mid 1800s

Answer 29

Feminism
Suffrage
Abolition
Education
Temperance
Second great awakening

Question 30

Fugitive slave act?

Answer 30

All citizens required to catch runaway slaves