Unit 4 Study Guide

Question 1

This amendment to the constitution established citizenship for former slaves.

Answer 1

14th

Question 2

This amendment to the constitution established voting rights for African Americans.

Answer 2

15th

Question 3

This amendment to the constitution abolished slavery.

Answer 3

13th

Question 4

What does the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do?

Answer 4

reorganize the south into military districts

Question 5

Most former slaves worked in Agriculture in a system in which they retained a portion of their crop. What was this system called?

Answer 5

Sharecropping

Question 6

What are the Black Codes?

Answer 6

To restrict laws of the African Americans

Question 7

This term describes a northerner who migrated to the reconstruction south.

Answer 7

carpetbagger

Question 8

What agreement removed the military from the south and ended reconstruction?

Answer 8

the compromise of 1877

Question 9

What industry was James Buchanan Duke in?

Answer 9

tabacco

Question 10

What industry was J.P. Morgan in?

Answer 10

finance

Question 11

What industry was Andrew Carnegie in?

Answer 11

steel

Question 12

What industry was Cornelius Vanderbilt in?

Answer 12

shipping/railroads

Question 13

What industry was John Rockefeller in?

Answer 13

oil

Question 14

The process by which a company buys out all of its suppliers to control every aspect of production.

Answer 14

Vertical Integration

Question 15

Who invented the telephone?

Answer 15

Alexander G. Bell

Question 16

Who perfected the incandescent light bulb?

Answer 16

Thomas A. Edison

Question 17

Who was the Democratic Party boss that ran New York from Tammany Hall?

Answer 17

William Tweed

Question 18

What were the working conditions Labor Unions were originally organized to address?

Answer 18

-12-15 hour work day
-low wages
-injuries and death

Question 19

Who was known for starting the most influential early labor movement, the American Federation of Labor?

Answer 19

Samuel Gompers

Question 20

What law attempted to make monopiles like Standard Oil illegal?

Answer 20

Sherman Anti-trust Act

Question 21

Government ownership or control of all major industries is the definition of what?

Answer 21

socialism

Question 22

What is the name of Charles Darwin’s significant 1859 book?

Answer 22

The Origin of Species

Question 23

Did Western Farmers favor inflation or deflation?

Answer 23

inflation

Question 24

Did Eastern Bankers favor inflation or deflation?

Answer 24

deflation

Question 25

Where did the two sides of the transcontinental railroad meet in 1869?

Answer 25

Promontory Point, Utah

Question 26

Who was the general who led an out numbered group of US soldiers into battle against the Plain Indians at the battle of Little Big Horn?

Answer 26

George Custer

Question 27

The Grange movement was an organization for what?

Answer 27

railroad companies

Question 28

What was central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians in 1800s?

Answer 28

-The Horse
-The Buffalo
-The extended family

Question 29

What did the populist party want?

Answer 29

-Inflation
-8 hour work day
-income tax

Question 30

What became a result of building railroads in the west?

Answer 30

-the destruction of the buffalo population
-the famous cattle drives
-the growth of the steel industry

Question 31

What famous law allowed Americans to own 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years and only paying $30?

Answer 31

Homestead Act of 1862

Question 32

Why do treaties with the Plains Indians usually fail?

Answer 32

The White men didnt understand the role of the chief and family units in Plains Indian culture

Question 33

What is true of William J. Bryan?

Answer 33

-He supported bimetallism (silver/gold)
-He became famous with his Cross of Gold Speech
-He won the democratic nomination for President

Question 34

Whats true about cowboys?

Answer 34

-15-25% were African American
-They worked to herd cattle to towns and railroads
-They were dependent on Eastern Cities to buy their goods

Question 35

What invention became ideal for fencing the plains?

Answer 35

Barbed Wire

Question 36

What state became known as the Sooner State?

Answer 36

Oklahoma