American History II

Joseph Davis, brother of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, sold his plantations Hurricane and Brierfield in 1866.  Why was this sale significant?

 

Joseph Davis sold his plantations to a black man and his sons.

Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction required which of the following to occur before a defeated Confederate state could rejoin the Union?

 

A minimum of 10% of qualified voters from 1860 must take a loyalty oath, and then the state could organize its government.

The Wade-Davis bill was proposed by Radical Republicans, and it

 

required a loyalty oath by 50% of white adult males before allowing a defeated Confederate state to draft a new constitution.

The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, medical care, and clothing to war refugees, including white southerners.

True

What was the most important provision of the Fourteenth Amendment?

 

It made African Americans citizens.

Race riots erupted in these two southern cities, resulting in almost 100 deaths.

 

Memphis and New Orleans

The Election of 1866 is significant because

 

Radical Republicans won more than a 2/3 majority in both houses of Congress, a sound repudiation of Johnson by voters.

Which below is NOT a provision of the First Reconstruction Act by Congressional (or Radical) Republicans?

 

Black adult males and former Confederates were to be enrolled as voters in former Confederate states.

After Radical Republicans passed the First Reconstruction Act in March of 1867, President Johnson realizing that he was defeated, signed the bill into law and submitted to the will of Congress.

False

President Johnson was impeached by Congress because

 

he ignored the Tenure of Office Act.

According to Henry Grady, the tragedy of the South was that 

 

the region had plenty of human and natural resources but no factories to manufacture the goods it needed.

It was pretty easy for tenant farmers and sharecroppers to get ahead if they worked hard and used the crop-lien system of credit to purchase seed and equipment.

False

As older, white Southern men moved from farms to textile mill towns, they 

 

had difficulty adjusting.

The New South crusade did succeed in bringing some industrialization to the South.  The advances in these two industries were most striking:

 

Cotton textile and tobacco

Plessy v Ferguson was an 1896 Supreme Court decision that 

 

upheld segregation.

All Southerners suffered under the rule of racial segregation, whether they realized it or not.

True

Which is NOT true about westward migration?

 

It stabilized the frontier and benefited American Indians.

The introduction of  _______________ caused Plains Indians like the Comanche and Apache to become more nomadic.

horses

George Custer faced this Sioux leader at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

 

Crazy Horse

The textbook editor asserts that this piece of legislation "was more destructive than any blow struck by the [US] army," because it undermined the communal structure at the center of Indian life.

 

The Dawes Act

The development of the new industrial order required a web of complex industrial systems. Which below is NOT one of those systems?

 

Corn agriculture

One of the byproducts of industrialization was pollution. Engineers tried to cleanse the polluted Chicago River by reversing its flow.  What was the outcome of this?

 

They succeeded in shifting pollution to rivers downstate.

Thomas Edison was a self-made man who exemplifies the American Dream. He worked alone in his home with no assistance from others.

False

Your instructor once worked as a schematic designer for the corporation founded by George Eastman.  What industry did Eastman found?

 

Kodak

Which most closely describes vertical integration?

 

I own a hamburger restaurant. I am tired of paying other businesses to raise the beef, slaughter the beef, pack the beef, and ship the beef to me. So I buy a farm, raise my own cattle. Then I buy a meat packing facility to butcher and pack my meat. Finally, I buy a transport company to ship my beef to me. Now I don't have to pay the inflated prices that a bunch of different businesses want to charge me. This maximizes my profit.

Which most closely describes horizontal integration?

 

I own a hamburger restaurant. I am tired of paying other businesses to raise the beef, slaughter the beef, pack the beef, and ship the beef to me. So I buy a farm, raise my own cattle. Then I buy a meat packing facility to butcher and pack my meat. Finally, I buy a transport company to ship my beef to me. Now I don't have to pay the inflated prices that a bunch of different businesses want to charge me. This maximizes my profit.

Employers always held the advantage over labor in the new industrial system. Which of the tactics below was NOT used by employers to control labor?

 

Employers hired labor organizers to help them find common ground with laborers.

Chicago, and other great cities, shaped the natural environment hundreds of miles beyond its city limits.  Which is an example of Chicago's ecological impact far beyond its border?

 

The urban explosion in Chicago meant that there were many mouths to feed, so wheat replaced native grasses on the prairies.

The deadliest slum disease was

Tuberculosis

Political machines were only affiliated with the Democratic Party, and they were limited only to urban areas.

False

Political bosses cheated at the voting polls by

 

 

"the Tasmanian Dodge"

What is most significant about the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act?

 

It was the first time that Congress used race as an excuse to exclude people from entry into the United States.

A vibrant urban culture consisted of all EXCEPT:

 

Public Schools focused on creative thinking instead of the "fundamentals" like math and science. Public school teachers fostered individual growth and free thought instead of conformity and values.

This American president passed the first billion-dollar peacetime budget.

 

Benjamin Harrison

This is the form of newspaper reporting that stressed shock and excitement over even-handedness and dull fact. It was most successfully practiced by New York Journal owner William Randolph Hearst in the lead-up to the Spanish-American War.

 

Yellow journalism

The sinking of the battleship Maine

 

was caused by a coal bunker catching fire aboard the ship.

Admiral George Dewey lead the US Navy to victory against the Spanish at Manila Bay, Philippines, by

 

destroying the entire Spanish squadron in five hours.

The US Naval Blockade at Santiago Bay resulted in

 

the destruction of seven Spanish ships and US victory in Cuba.

Vastly more American troops succumbed to disease, mismanagement, and accidents than to battle. They were poorly clothed and fed, and found themselves fighting with Civil War weapons.

True

Which was a provision of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish American War?

 

Spain ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the US.

This event shocked the nation and underscored a growing crisis in industrial work conditions and the necessity for reform.

 

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Progressivism wasn’t a cohesive movement, but a set of these loosely connected reforms. Which below is NOT one of those reforms?

 

focus on foreign policy instead of domestic issues

Progressivism was overwhelmingly white, Protestant, paternalistic, professional, and middle-class, led by educators, social scientists, and lawyers.

True

This new profession proceeded from the haunting views of urban poverty presented by journalists like Jacob Riis and novelists like Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser. It developed out of the old settlement house movement and studied hard data to find solutions to societal ills.

 

social work

Noticing that too many poor women were overburdened with children, pregnant year after year and sometimes dying from self-induced abortions, this woman founded the first family planning and birth control clinic in the country.

 

Margaret Sanger

States in this region were the first to grant women the right to vote.

Group of answer choices

West

Most progressives paid little attention to the suffering of African Americans.

True

In comparing Booker T Washington to W E B Du Bois, we find that 

 

Du Bois called for a black vanguard to protest against segregation, disenfranchisement, and discrimination.

Which president advocated conservation of natural resources and greatly expanded the national park system?

 

Theodore Roosevelt

The Clayton Antitrust Act barred all of the following EXCEPT

 

large-scale production and distribution

General John "Black Jack" Pershing earned his nickname from commanding an all-black unit in this war:

 

Spanish-American War

The opening of this signified that the new American empire now spanned the globe.

 

Panama Canal

Several events transpired to cause Wilson to abandon neutrality and "peace without victory" and to enter the war. Which below is NOT one of those events?

 

Sinking of the Titanic

Wilson created the National War Labor Board, which helped to hold wages constant, reduce overtime pay, and prohibited union organization.

False

Women in war work helped energize women's causes and organizations. As a result, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920. What did it do?

 

It gave women the right to vote.

Race wars in the "red summer" of 1919 broke out in all of the cities below EXCEPT

 

Detroit

This Russian agency was tasked with spreading communist revolutions abroad.

 

Comintern

In the United States, more people died from the influenza pandemic than American battle deaths in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined.

True

Which provision of the Treaty of Versailles contained the seeds of resentment that would grow into the second world war?

 

War Guilt Clause

The Communist Labor Party had great success in the US.  In 1919, it boasted over 1 million members.

False