Honors History Exam

How did the combination of the end of feudalism and the Protestant Reformation contribute to people choosing to leave Europe during that time in history?

Feudalism was a system where peasants were tied to land owned by nobles, without it people had no security or opportunity. The Protestant Reformation caused religious conflict, leading people to leave in search of land, freedom, and safety.

Explain why Bacon’s Rebellion was an important step in ending the practice of indentured servitude and adopting the Slave Codes in all British North American colonies?

Bacon’s Rebellion showed colonial leaders that poor whites, indentured servants, free Blacks, and enslaved people working together were a serious threat to their power. To prevent this unity, people reduced reliance on indentured servitude and instead adopted racially based Slave Codes across the American colonies, dividing workers by race .

Explain political passivity, and why it’s harmful (according to Henry David Thoreau)

Thoreau argues that political passivity is when people obey unjust laws without resisting them when they know those laws are wrong. He believes this is harmful because inaction makes citizens responsible for allowing injustice to continue.

1. Explain the importance of infrastructure as a military advantage during the Civil War. Be sure to provide one specific example to support your response.

Infrastructure such as the railroad benefited  by helping in the transportation of weapons and food. The telegraph helped by transporting messages from troop to troop.

Why do you think it was difficult to agree on a plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War?

Many people had differing ideas about what should be done and what rights should be given to freed slaves. The Ku Klux Klan was also terrorizing blacks to intimidate them and keep them quiet.

Explain how convict leasing is considered to be another form of slavery in the United States.

People paid very little for prisoners to work for them and did not care for their safety because they thought they could always just get another prisoner. Sheriff's, judges, and leasers worked together, sheriffs wrongfully arrested people for minor crimes, judges gave them long sentences and leasers bought their labor for cheap.

1. Explain how Staub’s Model of Frustration supports the role of dehumanization in the Jim Crow era. Power of dehumanization noted def of dehumanization 4 stages of Staub's model of frustration the goal of dehumanizing propaganda connect the how 

Dehumanization is the act of depriving someone or something of human qualities, personality, or dignity which was the main goal of Jim Crow laws. Staub's model of frustration has four stages of increasingly worse dehumanization varying from reduction of human needs to murder of a group of people which reinforces the ideas enforced during the Jim Crom era.

Explain the conditions that led to the formation of labor unions during the Gilded Age. 

Low wages, strict supervision, twelve hour days 6 days a week, repetitive tasks, and lack of safety measures are some of the conditions people were faced with and led them to form unions.

Explain the importance of understanding push and pull factors that contribute to immigration and migration.

Push pull factors are the reasons people decide to immigrate so it helps in understanding why they immigrated.

Using the information studied during our look at Staub’s Model of Frustration, explain how the work of perpetrators during the Jim Crow era contributed to the process of dehumanization. Be sure to provide a specific example.

Staub's model of Frustration outlines the cruel things done to a group of people such as dehumanization and scapegoating. During the Jim Crow era dehumanization was one of the many tactics used to make freed slaves feel less than whites. Some of the things they did to achieve this include, segregation almost everywhere, refusing entry to many places, unlawfully arresting people, and many more dehumanizing acts.

Ideas of race have always played a role in social acceptance of American citizenship. Use the resources from Unit 7 (The Gilded Age) and explain how the judicial challenges in determining citizenship status set a precedent for both natural born citizens and those wishing to become naturalized citizens.judicial challenges thind how did these cases set a precedent for determining citizenship

At first the United States allowed almost all people to immigrate into the country, but then once jobs started being taken from American born citizens they started making restrictions. Some of those restrictions prevented people who had previously immigrated and lived in the U.S. but had traveled back to their home countries. One of the laws that were made to prevent the entry and reentry was the Chinese exclusion act that prevented all Chinese laborers from immigrating but allowed teachers, students, merchants, travellers, and diplomats.