Social Studies Midterm

Southerner who went along with Radical Reconstruction

Scalawag

Agency to assist former slaves

Freedman’s Bureau

Caused companies to go broke

Panic of 1875

Rights guaranteed to all citizens

Civil Rights

Process of readmitting Southern States to the Union

Reconstruction

A northern who came down to the south after the civil war

Carpetbagger

Wanted to restore the South to the Union quickly

Radical Republicans

Act of killing without a trail

Lynchings

System in which farmers rent land

Sharecropping

Laws limiting the freedom of former slaves

Black codes

What gave African Americans full citizenship?

A. twelfth Amendment

B. Compromise of 1827

C. Fourteenth Amendment

D, Freedman’s Burea

C. Fourteenth Amendment

What did the 15th Amendment do?

A. It ended Reconstruction

B. It gave African-American men the right to vote

C. It gave women the right to vote

D. All of the above are true

B. It gave African-Americans the right to vote

What happened after the Panic of 1873 caused economic problem?

A, Southerns asked for more Reconstuction laws

B. Republicans streagnthened Reconstruction

C. Democrats wanted all Americans to have equal rights

D. Northerns lost interest in the South and Reconstruction

D. Northerns lost interest in the South and Reconstruction

Why did the House of Representives impeach Andrew Johnson?

A. They thought that his Reconstruction polices gave African Americans to much power

B. He angered Congress by supporting the civil rights act of 1866

C. He violated the Tenure of Office Act by firing his sectary of war.

D. All above are true

C. He violated the Tenure of Office Act by firing his sectary of war.

Who operated schools to educate former slaves?

A. Plantation owners

B. Freedman’s Bureau

C. Democratic party

D. Suffragist

B. Freedman’s Bureau

Which of the following systems created a cycle of debt?

A. Black codes

B. 40 acres and a mule

C. Sharecropping

D. Railroad loans

C. Sharecropping

Which of the following is NOT true of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

A. President Johnson was opposed it

B. Teachers faced violence

C. It helped reunite African-American families

D. It provided schools and supplies to freedmen in the South

A. President Johnson was opposed it

Why did abolitionist oppose the Compromise of 1877?

A. They believed that the South would not respect African American rights

B. They believed Hayes would be a corrupt president

C. They is not want to improve Southern railroads

D. They were afraid it might lead to another economic depression

A. They believed that the South would not respect African American rights

What rumor spread among former slaves?

A. That Thaddeus Stephens would move south to help farmers

B. That the 13th Amendment would be overturned

C. That they would receive forty acres and a mule

D. That sharecropping would be outlawed

C. That they would receive forty acres and a mule

How did the Panic of 1873 affect Reonstruction?

A. Radical Republicans became stronger and toughened Reconstruction

B. The economic problems caused the South to close interest in Reconstruction

C. The economic problems caused the North to lose interest in Reconstruction

D. Cotton production dropped in the South, so Reconstruction efforts turned toward agriculture

C. The economic problems caused the North to lose interest in Reconstruction

What brought Reconstruction to an end in the South?

A. Ratification of the 15th Amendment

B. Ratification of the 14th Amendment

C. Actions of the supreme court in 1877

D. The compromise of 1877

D. The compromise of 1877

Which president took action against the Ku Klux Klan?

A. Jefferson Davis

B. Lincoln

C. Ulysses S. Grant

D. Andrew Johnson

C. Ulysses S. Grant

Who led the Readical Republicans in Congress?

A. Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Summer

B. Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant

C. Supreme Court judges

D. Samuel J. Tilden

A. Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Summer

By how many electoral votes did the Republicans win?

1 vote

Which Region of the country voted mostly Democratic?

Southern Region

Which candidate had a higher popular vote?

Tilden

What percentage of electoral votes was disputed?

5.7%

What does this map reveal about the relationship between the popular vote and the outcome of an election?

That even if you have the better popular votes it doesn’t mean you win the election.

When did cotton production drop by 2 million bales?

A. between 1869 and 1870

B. between 1870 and 1880

C. between 1880 and 1890

D. between 1890 and 1900

A. between 1869 and 1870

What can be inferred from the sharp decline of both crops between 1860 and 1870?

A. There was a bad storm which wiped out both crops

B. The civil War hurt cotton and tabacco and production

C. A rare breed of locusts destroyed both crops

D. Both crops were infected with ergot mold

B. The civil War hurt cotton and tabacco and production

What can be determined by the amount of cotton and tobacco produced in the South in 1900?

A. The South invented new breeds of seed, which increased production of cotton and tabaccos

B. Southerners succeeded at producing high levels of cotton and tabacco.

C. Cotton and tabacco were no longer important to the South.

D. Southerners could not make a living through agriculture

B. Southerners succeeded at producing high levels of cotton and tabacco.

In the 1900, did the South produced a greater amount of cotton or tobacco?

A. It protected more tobacco

B. It produced more cotton

C. It produced approximately equal amounts of each

D. Bales cannot accurately be compared to pounds

D. Bales cannot accurately be compared to pounds

Why was the compromise necessary?

During the 1876 election between Tilden and Hayes the electoral college votes were close, but no candidate had a majority. 8 republicans and 7 democrats came together to form an agreement, which is the compromise if 1877. It is necessary because without it we would not have a president.

What did the Republicans(North) get from the compromise?

1. Hayes as president

2. The South to promise to respect the rights of African Americans

What did the Democrats (South) get?

1. Fedreral troops out of the South

2. Money for Railroads

3. Democrats in Cabinet

4. Money from Gov. For consrtuction/ improvements.

Farmer on frontier

Sodbuster

Victory for Native American

Battle of Bighorn

Law that attempted to assimilate Native Americans into white culture

Dawes Act

Cavalry commander beaten by Native Americans at Little Bighorn

Custer

Virginia City, Neveda

Boomtown

Massacre after the Ghost Dance

Wounded Knee

Sparsely settled region

frontier

Granted 160 acres to settlers

Homestead Act

Social Organization of farmers

Grange

African American serving in the U.S. army in the west

Buffalo Soldier

why did the Dawes act fail?

A. followers of wovoka rejected this Christian missionary program

B. Most Native Americans did not want to give up their traditional ways to be become farmers.

C. Many Native Americans were against railroads in their hunting grounds

D. Native Americans did not want to become school teachers

B. Most Native Americans did not want to give up their traditional ways to be become farmers.

How did the U.S. gov. respond to Wooka’s followers?

A. President Hayes invited Wooka to sign the Treaty of Fort Larmine

B. They opened as special Ghost Dance exhibit in Washington, D.C, to honor Wooka’s peacemaking attempts.

C.The gov. sent Christians missionaries to convert the Ghost dancers

D. They feared Ghost dancers were preparing for war, so they killed them at the Wounded Knee Massacre

D. They feared Ghost dancers were preparing for war, so they killed them at the Wounded Knee Massacre

What attracted the exodusters to Kanas?

A. They could use the vast supply of trees.

B. They could own their own land under the Homestead act

C. There was an unlimited supply of sod and buffalo chips.

D. They could grow prairie corn, which would not grow further south.

B. They could own their own land under the Homestead act

What was NOT true of women suffrage in the West?

A. By 1900, women had won the right to vote in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho.

B. Wyoming agreed to join the Union only if women could vote

C. Abigail Scott Duniway founded the Oregan Equal Sufferage Association

D. Women Sufferage the West lagged behind women’s suffrage in the East.

D. Women Sufferage the West lagged behind women’s suffrage in the East.

How did Railroads upset farmers?

A. Railroads charged high prices to farmers to transport and store grain.

B. Railroads rarely shipped crops to the correct families

C. Trains ran so late that grain rarely made it to the market in time

D. Farmers crops were ruined when railroads built on their lands

A. Railroads charged high prices to farmers to transport and store grain.

Why did the Gov. step up military action against the Native Americans after the Battle of LIttle Bighorn?

A. Custer was outnumbered, so they sent troops to help him

B.They were thrilled by Custers victory

C. They feared that the warring N.A. would head towed Washington D>C.

D. They were shocked by the Cheyenne and Sioux victory

D. They were shocked by the Cheyenne and Sioux victory

What did Chief Joseph do when the gov. broke a treaty and tried to force the Nez Perce to sell their land and live on a strip of territory in Idaho?

A. He fought the U.S. Army in the bloody Battle of the Nez Perce

B. He and his followers fled toward Canada until U.S. troops caught them near the Canadian border

C. He joined with U.S. officials creating a new reservation which would allow Native Americans to continue their way of life.

D. All of the above is true.

B. He and his followers fled toward Canada until U.S. troops caught them near the Canadian border

What was the Sand Creek Massacre?

A. General Custers troops killed an entire village of Sioux

B. General Custers troops killed Geronimo and his apache followers

C. Colorado militia forced on a peaceful Cheyenne village

D. Sioux and Cheyenne warriors attacked construction workers

C. Colorado militia forced on a peaceful Cheyenne village

What did William Jenneings Bryan endorse in his “Cross of Gold” speach?

A. The gold standered

B. Free gold

C. The silver standered

D. Free silver

D. Free silver

Why did the Sioux oppose the construction of Bozeman trial?

A. The trail fell across their hunting grounds

B. The construction workers taunted the sioux

C. The trail was not constructed according to prairie weather cycles

D. Construction workers did not engage in ceremonies to honor the buffalo

A. The trail fell across their hunting grounds

Which one of the following cities was linked by railroad to Pueblo and Denver?

A. Omaha

B. Cheyenne

C. Kansas City

D. Chicago

C. Kansas City

Why did all four cattle trails head north from Texas?

A. Cattle gained weight as they headed north and ate prairie grass

B. Ranchers sent cattle to be sold in cities with access to railroads

C. It was too dangerous to take cattle across the Rio grande

D. All the above are true

B. Ranchers sent cattle to be sold in cities with access to railroads

Why were railroads built linking the East and West?

A. Cattle raised in the West could be shipped to eastern markets

B. The railroad did not want to compete with the cattle trails

C. There were geographic obstacles between the North and South.

D. all of the above is true

A. Cattle raised in the West could be shipped to eastern markets

How far would cowhands on the Shawnee Trail have to travel between the Red River and Kansas City?

A. about 175 miles

B. about 275 miles

C. about 375 miles

D. about 475 milies

C. about 375 miles

Why might a rancher continue on the Goodnight-Loving Trail north of Denver?

A. To avoid Indian territory

B. To reach Nebraska by a shorter route

C. To ship to Kansas city

D. To ship to Chicago rather than St. Louis

D. To ship to Chicago rather than St. Louis

True or Flase: The typicaal pattern of ups and downs that American industry experinces over time is known as the stock market

False/ Buisness Cycle

True or False: In the 1870’s, teacher Alexander Graham Bell found a new way to use electricity when he invented the telephone.

True

True or False: Besides electricity, a change new source of power became available when engineers found an efficient way to obtain coal from the earth.

False/ Petroleum

True or False: The growth of American industry was aided by Isaac Singer , who opened a research lavatory to investigate uses for electricity.

False/ Thomas Edison

True or False: The Bessemer steel process, an efficient new technique for making steel. encouraged the use of steel in many different products.

True

True or False: Bells’s telephone was a big hit at Menlo Park, New Jersey, where people from all over the world gathered to celebrate America’s 100th birthday

False/ Centennial Exhibition00

True or False: By the late 1800’s, efficient generators had been developed that allowed the use of electricity to power machines in factories.

True

List 4 reasons why th e Industrial Revolution grew in the late 1800’s

1. Immigrants

2. New Inventions

3. Transportation

4. Natural Resources

Why do patents encourage people to develop new products and processes?

No one will steal your invention. It is yours.

How did the paths of Thomas Alva Edison and Granville T. Woods Cross?

Thomas Alva Edison and Granville T. Woods crossed paths when Thomas Edison filled a law suit against wood for stealing his invention.

A railroad that crosses an entire continent is called

A. a national railroad

B. A transcontinental railroad

C. a commuter railroad

D. an interconnecting g railroad

B. A transcontinental railroad

In building a railroad line across the West, the company that started in California and built toward the east was the

A. Transcontinental Railroad

B. Union Pacific Railroad

C. Great Northern Railroad

D. Central Pacific Railroad

D. Central Pacific Railroad

The company that started building the railroad line west from Omaha , Nebraska, was the

A. Central Pacific

B. New York Central Pacific

C. Union Pacific Railroad

D. Great Northern Railroad

C. Union Pacific Railroad

The rail line being built from California and the line being built from Nebraska met and joined

A. in Colorado

B. In Utah

C. In Nevada

D. In Texas

B. In Utah

Some of the most dangerous work in building the railroad through the rocky Mountains was performed by

A. African-American workers

B. Irish Workers

C. Native American workers

D. Chinese workers

D. Chinese workers

How did standered time differ from the way most Americans kept time before the railroad, and why did the railroad make a change to standered time?

Before the railroad, most Americans determined time on the calculations of the sun, and this system was called “solar time”. Solar time cause problems for people who scheduled train crossings, so to solve this problem they set up the “standered time.”

Why were the Chinese railroad workers healthier?

They drank boiled water.

How did the railroad companies get the land that they sold to European immigrants?

The gov. gave them 20 squared miles of land for every 1 mile of track they put down.

Why did Railroads give people more control over their environment?

Railroads gave people more control over there environment because it allowed people not to have to live on water ways.

jay Gould

A robber Barron who made most of his money dealing in railrode stock

Robber Barron

A business leader who became wealthy by using dishonest methods

Corporation

A company that raises money by selling shares of stock

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John D. Rockfeller

A wealthy businessman who controlled the oil industry

Refinery

An industrial plant that purifies oil

Andrew Carnegie

A wealthy buisnessman who controlled the steell industry

Monopoly

A company that wipes out its competition and controls an industry

Trust

A legal body created to hold stock in many companies, often in the same industry

Philanthropist

A person who gives away a great deal of his or her money to charity

Guilded age

The era of the late 1800’s which was a time of fabulous wealth for a few Americans

How does the name Gilded age describes the economic and social conditions that existed in the late 1800’’s in the U.S?

The name gilded mean to cover up. They called it the “ Gilded Age” because they used the wealthy people audacious wealth to cover up the poor and the bad parts of society like how your paint over an old rusty chair with gold paint to make it seem better and nicer is what the wealthy did to the poor by covering them up with there audacious wealth.

Why was the South less industrial than the north in the late 1800’s?

The South feel into property after the Civil War.