U.S. History II Midterm Flashcards
According to the Reconstruction Acts passed by Congress, what was required for southern states to
rejoin the Union?
The Ten Percent Plan required 10% of the 1860 voters to take an oath of future allegiance to the U.S. and emancipation of the enslaved and draft new state constitutions
States had to rewrite their constitution and ratify the 14th amendment
What led many in the South to protest northern efforts for equality?
Pride and Humiliation
How did the Radical Republicans differ from President Lincoln in terms of how the country should
proceed with Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans wanted to remake the south and punish the rebels, so they proposed the Wade-Davis Bill, which Lincoln vetoed
Who was John Wilkes Booth and what was he trying to achieve?
Booth assassinated Lincoln; he defended the confederacy and White supremacy and acted on a larger conspiracy to eliminate heads of the Union government and keep the confederacy going; he was an actor
Why did Congress not allow southern senators and representatives to take
their seats in Congress after President Andrew Johnson had agreed to do so?
Members of the Union believed Johnson was not harsh enough on the South
Why was President Andrew Johnson impeached?
It was said that he violated the Tenure of Office Act by firing Secretary of War without Senate approval
What was significant about the election of Ulysses S. Grant in 1868?
“Waving the Bloody Shirt”; they blamed the Civil War on Democrats
What was the consequence of congressional exclusion of women in the Fifteenth Amendment?
An effective split of the civil rights movement that was once united for women and African Americans and some moved west
What was meant by “redeeming” state governments in the South?
Democrats leveraged planters’ economic power and wielded White vigilante violence to take back
state power from Republicans
What gave African Americans hope that they would own land independent of working the land for
former slave owners?
General Sherman promised them 40 acres
What was the “Invisible Empire of the South?”
Who won the popular vote in the 1876 election?
Samuel Tilden
What were the terms of the Compromise of 1877?
Republican senate leaders worked with Democratic leadership so they could support Hayes
Why were only a few Americans willing to push beyond the Mississippi and settle out west before
the middle of the 19th century?
They viewed the territory as an arid wasteland, suitable for only American Indians
What was the original purpose behind John O’Sullivan’s article on Manifest Destiny in the United
States Magazine and Democratic Review which was written in 1845?
The original purpose was to encourage expansion into new Texas territory
Why did African Americans move west for the most part?
They sought to escape racism and violence in the Old South and find new economic opportunities
What problem facing western settlers did the Newlands Reclamation Act seek to address?
Lack of water and dry farming techniques
What did the textbook have to say about women in the West? How did the lives of these women
compare to women in the East? What rights, if any, did women in the West have?
Most women faced the same hardships of men and were able to find jobs such as teachers; they could not sell property, sue for divorce, serve on juries, or vote; eventually they could vote
What impact did the early mining days have on the future of the West and the United States?
Many moved West
Why did Texas frontiersmen fail to capitalize on the five million head of
cattle roaming the state before the Civil War?
It was difficult to transport them to eastern markets
In what state did the famous “lynching bee” occur?
Wyoming
The Comstock Law of 1873 and the Page Act of 1875 were aimed at stopping what?
The spread of lewd and lascivious literature through mail
What is perhaps the most famous battle of the West?
The Battle of Little Bighorn
What was the “final episode” in the American Indian War?
Wounded Knee Massacre
What law permitted the federal government to divide the lands of any
tribe and grant 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land to each
head of family, with lesser amounts to single persons and others?
The Dawes Act
What was primarily responsible for the mass immigration of Chinese peoples to the United States?
The Gold Rush
What was the leading employer of Chinese peoples?
The Transcontinental Railroad
What were the terms of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? How was the law modified?
The act forbade further immigration from China for a ten-year period. The act was extended until it was repealed in 1943
How did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo impact Hispanic citizens of
the United States? What war was ended by the treaty?
It ended the Mexican-American War in 1948. It promised U.S. citizenship to Hispanics living in the
American Southwest; many faced discrimination and lost their land
According to the textbook, what laid the groundwork for the first labor movement in the United States?
Subsequent frustrations among working-class Americans
