U.S. History and Industrialization Review

Flashcards covering the Civil War, Reconstruction, Western expansion, and the rise of industrialism based on lecture quiz questions.

Appomattox Court House (April 1865)

The site where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, marking the official end of major fighting in the Civil War.

Economic impact of the Civil War on the South

Widespread destruction of infrastructure, loss of slave labor, and economic devastation.

Confederate States of America

The slave states that seceded from the Union.

Manifest Destiny

An idea often used to justify the displacement and subjugation of Native American populations.

Horizontal Integration

A business model depicted by the merging of multiple companies at the same level of production, such as Oil Co. A, B, and C merging into one Mega Oil Co.

Jim Crow laws

Laws designed to enforce segregation.

Fugitive Slave Act

A law that required ordinary citizens to help capture runaway enslaved persons.

Emancipation Proclamation

A decree that declared freedom for enslaved persons in all states where they were held.

Social Darwinists

Those who justified expanding American power overseas by suggesting that nations competed with each other and only the strongest would survive.

Greenbacks

Paper money used in the United States; the lecture notes examine if these could be exchanged for gold or silver coins.

Hawaiian monarchy

A government that was overthrown by a group of planters supported by the U.S. Marines.

Theodore Roosevelt (Presidency)

Became president when William McKinley was assassinated.

Scalawags

Owners of small farms who did not want wealthy planters to regain power in the South.

Carpetbaggers

Northerners who moved to the South to take advantage of the war-torn region's conditions.

Buffalo hunting

An activity encouraged by the army to starve Native Americans and force them onto reservations.

Theodore Roosevelt (1900 Election)

Chosen as William McKinley's running mate due to his charisma and war fame.

World War I (Spark)

The event that turned off the first declaration of war was the assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.

End of Reconstruction

Occurred when President Hayes pulled federal troops out of the South.

Missouri

A state that remained in the Union and did not secede, unlike North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas.

Battle of Little Bighorn

A battle that started when Cheyenne warriors attacked an army detachment near the Little Bighorn River.

Plains Indians

Native American nations that primarily lived as nomads and practiced religions based on the spiritual power of the natural world.

Russian support of Slavic people

The obligation Russians felt to support the Slavic people of southeastern Europe against Austria-Hungary because they shared the same ethnic background.