American history tes 1

When did the civil war end

1865

What did the 13th amendment do

End slavery

Where did Lee surrender to Grant

Appomattox court house in Virginia

Who founded the American Red Cross

Clara Barton

In post civil war the south was….

Physically and economically devastated

After Lincoln assassination what does it mean that many people were involved

Vast Conspiracy

How many were hung from the Lincoln assassination

4 including Mary Surratt despite little evidence

Who was supposed to be with Lincoln when he was assassinated

Grant

Who were the people that were supposed to get assassinated with Lincoln

Grant, Johnson, seward

Who stabbed the Secretary of State (seward)

Louis Paine

What is Seward known for

Purchase of Alaska from Russia

What was the steamboat that later sunk due to a boiler room explosion

Sultana

When did reconstruction end

1876-1877

Who was elected marking the end of reconstruction era

Rutherford B Hayes

What was the big component of the deal to vote for Hayes

Union troops leaving

What is the spoil system

Gives jobs for votes

What is the Pendleton act

An act to end the spoils system, have to take civil service test for jobs

Was the freemen’s bureau a success

Failure due to corruption

Emancipation for black did NOT

Have large #s move north (most stayed in south)

Greatest Achievement of freedmen’s bureau

Education

Did Andrew Johnson support of not support freedmen’s bureau

DID NOT support despised it

Controversy behind David’s bill demonstrated

Differences between Lincoln and radical republican plans

In 10% plan Lincoln wanted

10% of all southern men and rapid remissions of southern men to union

Was Johnson’s plan like Lincoln’s

Yes

Main purpose of the black codes

To suppress blacks

Black codes provide all EXCEPT

Voter rights for African Americans

What did the 14th amendment do for blacks

Give citizenship

Reconstruction ends when

Union troops were pulled

Which is NOT an amendment

12

Goal of KKK

Intimidate blacks and undermine them politically

Why did Johnson and the radical republicans not get along

Thought Johnson was too soft on white south

Who was the leader of Radical republicans

Charles Sumter

What corruption did grants presidency have

Credit mobiles, Kickback money not going to workers

What did the compromise of 1877 do

Withdraw of federal troops

Sequence of presidents during the gilden age

Hayes, Garfield, author, Cleveland, harrison

Please V Furgeson ruling

Separate but equal

Black codes were also called

Jim Crow laws

What did the radical republicans do

Push vigorously for black equality and try to get rid of Johnson

Who’s plan was the Wade-Davis bill

Radical republicans

What is the 15th amendment and what did it get rid of?

Gave black MEN the right to vote and got rid of 3/5 compromise

What is sharecropping and tenant farming and was it successful

Agriculture system which replaced slavery in many areas but economics for slaves improved very little

Tenure of office

Act which forbade Johnson from removing any members of his cabinet without senate consent

How was grants presidency

Corrupted but not his fault

What does the Gilded age

Covered in gold but no value underneath, sharp divisions between rich or poor

Andrew Carnegie

Bought a steel mill and sold it to banker JP Morgan for $400 million

J.P. Morgan

Formed the largest corporation in the world when he purchased Carnegie steel and merged it with other mills to form US steel corporation

John D Rockefeller

Founded the Standard oil company of Ohio, controlled 90% of the nations oil refining capacity

Herbert SPencer

British Philosopher and author who applied Charles Darwins theories of evolution and natural selection

Horatio Alger

Author who wrote popular children’s books

Knights of labor accepted who?

Knights welcomed blacks, woman, immigrants and unskilled workers

American federation of labor, who did they accept

Opposite of knights of labor only accepted skilled white men.

Pullman strike ending

Strike was crushed by federal troops and wa the first time the US government used a legal weapon to break a strike (court order)

Edward Bellmany what did he write

Socialist Utopian novel called looking backward called for social and economic equality

Nativism

Hatred against immigrants from southern/Eastern Europe

Chinese exclusion act of 1882

Chinese came looking for gold and didnt find any, the first US law limiting immigration

What did Henry George propose

A single 100% tland tax as the only tax.

Woman’s Christian temperance union

The largest organization for woman in the world, feminist movement

Who founded the NAACP

W.E DuBois

What was the homestead act 1862 and did it work

Gave westerners settlers 160 acres of free land on the Great Plains if they agreed to farm it for 5 years, make improvements and pay a 10 dollar registration fee, it didnt work cuz they didnt have enough money to take care of of it and only 400,000 states long enough

Buffalo soldiers

9 and 10 cavalry of the US army that wa composed of all black troops, led by white officers assigned to the western frontier following the civil war

William J fetterman

Army captain who led a party of 82 soldiers to help construct the Bozeman trail

George Armstrong Custer

Civil war veteran who fought several tribes

What tribe was chief joseph in

Nez Perce

What tribe was Geronimo in

Apache

Buffalo Bill Cody what did he do

Most famous of professional buffalo killers, their slaughter put an end to the plains Indians way of life

Wounded Knee

Symbolized death of plains Native American way of culture

Dawes act and was it successful

New Indian policy intended to assimilate them, Not successful

Frederick Jackson turner

Professional scientific historian who wrote the influential significance of the frontier on American history in 1893