history final

Which of the following describes the working conditions most factory workers encountered?

Dangerous work environments

Which form of transportation was invented in the 1800s and led to a rapid growth in speed and convenience of travel?

Steamboat

How did new inventions change the daily lives of Americans?

People had more free time for leisure

How did the cotton gin make cotton more profitable?

It produced usable, cotton, fibers quicker, and easier removing the seeds

African-Americans, who lived in the south gain their freedom from all of the following ways except

Suing for your freedom in court

What was a constant threat to the family life of a slave?

Having a family member sold

How were folk tales used in slave culture?

To teach a moral

Most southern states responded to Turner’s rebellion by

Passing stricter laws limiting freedoms of slaves and freedmen

Plantation owners in the America’s needed an alternative source of labor because many Native Americans

Died from European disease diseases

Which of the following statements correctly describes the living conditions, enslaved people endured

Most slaves lived in small dirt floor cabins with few furnishings in little food

What behaviors did enslaved people use to rebel against the system?

Sleeves worked slow slowly, damaged goods, or carried out orders the wrong way

What was the typical outcome of most slave rebellions?

States would adopt new slave codes that were more strict

Which conditions correctly describes life under slavery

Sleeves were property and prohibited to be educated

What became the key question when the US gained territories after winning the Mexican-American war?

Would the new states ban or allow slavery?

Which part of the compromise of 1850 benefited states in the south

A fugitive slave act was established

Why did John Brown Reid Harper’s ferry?

He planned to lead a slave rebellion throughout the south

Why did leaders in South Carolina believe their state had the right to succeed?

Since each state joined the union voluntarily, each state could leave it voluntarily

What was the importance of the first battle of bull run?

It showed the war was not going to be quick or easy

What was the importance of the battle of Antietam?

It was the bloodiest single day of casualties and issue the emancipation proclamation

What was so revolutionary about the battle of the ironclads?

It would signal the end of wooden ships being built

Why did the union want to control the Mississippi river

It would divide the confederacy into two

Why did the copperhead call for an end into the war?

They sympathize with the south and oppose abolition

What was the symbolism of the emancipation proclamation?

It defined what the union was fighting against

Why was the battle of Gettysburg so important to the outcome of the war?

It ended any chance of European aid to the confederacy

What was the purpose of Sherman’s March to the sea?

To destroy anything that could be used to help the confederacy

What did Otis Lincoln proclaimed during the Gettysburg address?

The union would win so that the ideas it was founded upon would continue

Why did Lee surrender to Grant at Appomattox courthouse?

The Confederate army was trapped in low on supplies

What was the goal of POTUS Lincoln Reconstruction plan?

Southern states would be readmitted as quickly as possible.

How were POTUS Johnson and POTUS Lincoln’s plans similar

Southern states would have to recognize slavery was illegal and oath of loyalty

How did the Freedmen’s Bureau assist freed people and poor southerners

By building schools and colleges

Why did Southern states pass Black Codes

To limit the civil rights of African Americans

POTUS Johnson _____ the Freedmen’s Buteau Bureau Bill and Civil Rights Act 1866

Vetoed

What group failed to remove Johnson from office by one vote

Senate

What was the motivation for carpetbaggers coming to the South

To buy land cheap and make money from business opportunities

Who were the scalawags during the Reconstruction period

White southerners who supported the Republicans and were considered to be rascals

Why did POTUS Grant and Congress pass the Enforcement Acts in 1870s

To prevent KKK from denying AA their civil rights

What did the Compromise of 1877 settle

The presidential election

Which of the following were not methods used to restrict AA from voting during the Jim Crow era

Secret ballots

What was the doctrine established by Plessy vs Ferguson

Seperate but equal is okay

What two states were the 1st to grant women the right to vote

UT and WY

What is the 13th amendment

Abolished slavery

What is the 14th amendment

Citizenship to all men born or naturalized in the United States

What is the 15th amendment

All men can not. Can not discriminate based off of color, race, or formally enslaved

Define Ellis Island

Main immmigration station in the US from 1892-1954. Processed immigrants before being allowed into the country.

Define Muckrakers

Journalist and writers during the progressive era who exposed corruption, unsafe working conditions, poverty, and unfair business practices

Assembly line

A manufacturing process where workers each perform a small task as products move along a conveyor

Define prohibition

The period from 1920-1933 when the manufacture, sale, and transpiration of alcohol were illegal in the US until the 18th amendment

Define dust bowl

A period during the 1930s when severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms across the Great Plains

Who was the president of the USA during most of World War II

Franklin D Roosevelt

Which 3 countries were the main part of the Allies

US, Britain, Soviet Union

What finally brought the United States into World War II

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Why did the US government sell war bonds

To raise money for war expenses

Who had to follow rationing rules during World War II

All civilians of the United States

What was the main purpose of the Higgins boat during World War II

To transplant soilders from ships to shore

What organization was created after World War II to promote peace

United Nations