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History 1020
First Exam questions Kent Dollar
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Undergraduate 1
10/06/2011

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Term
Southern Defiance
Definition
Rigged Elections
Black Codes
Riots
Term
Rutherford B. Hayes
Definition
Term
Compromise of 1877
Definition
Term
Year Reconstruction Ended?
Definition
1877
Term
How freedmen demonstrated freedom
Definition
Movement
Marriage
In the Fields (Only men went out)
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Sharecropping (Advantages/disadvantages)
Definition
Allowed Freedmen to work with families

Still kept the blacks basically as slaves.
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Customs of Indians on the Great Plains prior to white intrusion
Definition
Nomadic & Semi-sedentary (Followed Buffalo)
Lived in large families
Shared Everything
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Exodusters
Definition
Blacks who left the south for Kansas?
Term
Impact of white intrusion on the Great Plains Indians
Definition
Forced the Indians to move to the Great Plains
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Helen Hut Jackson
Definition
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Dawes Act
Definition
Government took reservations, divided them up and assigned Indian families to farm the land.
Term
Ghost Dance
Definition
Term
Social Darwinism
Definition
The belief that a certain race is superior to another.
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"Saving the Indians"
Definition
The people who wanted to help the Indians were affected by Social Darwinism; tried to Americanize them.
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Wovoka
Definition
Said that whites would go away soon
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Wounded Knee
Definition
US soldiers were rounding up Indians when a shot was accidentally fired at soldiers, killed over 300 Indians.
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Homestead Act
Definition
Promised 160 acres for $10 to live for 5 years and improve land.
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Morill Land Grant Act
Definition
Gave 30,000 acres of land to every member of Congress.
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Transcontinental Railroad Act
Definition
Term
Chinese Laborers
Definition
Were very hardworking and completed the hardest part of the railroad very quickly.
Had gambling problem.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Definition
1882- Chinese could enter US or become citizens.
Term
Life on Frontier (Great Plains)
Definition
Difficult and Isolated
Frontier Communities
Term
John Muir
Definition
Spent 40 years to trying to get national parks at Yosemite.
Term
Why Industrialization Occurred when it did
Definition
Abundance of Natural Resources
Transportation
|-> Drove down cost
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Jay Gould
Definition
Term
Andrew Carnegie
Definition
Controlled Steel Market
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JD Rockfeller
Definition
Controlled Oil Market
Term
Pools & Trust
Definition
Pools- where companies come together to set high prices
Term
Interstate Commerce Act
Definition
Banned activities like pool and trust. Outlawed rate discrimination
Term
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Definition
Term
New Immigrants
Definition
Term
Working Conditions
Definition
Very poor, hazardous. 1913- 25,000 fatalities at the workplace.
Term
Haymarket square
Definition
Term
Turmoil of Urban Life
Definition
Overcrouded cities; disease spreaded very quick.
Lawlessness
Term
Social Gospel
Definition
Term
Settlement House Movement
Definition
Term
Jane Addams
Definition
Term
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Definition
Called for 'Reasonable' Reforms
Only included skilled laborers.
4,000,000 members
Term
Why Unionization was Unsuccessful
Definition
Term
Farmer's Problems
Definition
Loss of political power
low prices for crops
High shipping prices
Term
The Grange
Definition
Term
Populist Movement
Definition
Term
Greenback Movement
Definition
Term
Omaha Platform
Definition
Term
Plessy vs Ferguson
Definition
Separate but Equal
Term
Booker T. Washington
Definition
Said blacks should accept that racism is there and improve your own life. (Self-reliance)
Term
WEB Du bois
Definition
Said impose injustuce, made Niagra Movement 1909, became NAACP
Term
Causes of American Imperialism
Definition
World Wide Expansion
Everyone else was doing it
Raw Materials
Missionaries
Great Nation Theory (we have a duty to help lessor nations)
Term
War with Spain
Definition
"Splendid little War"
Cuba rebels against Spain;
US helps Cuba but does not Annex them
Term
American-Filipino War
Definition
Term
Emilio Aquinado
Definition
Term
Teller Amendment
Definition
The US Wwill not Annex Cuba
Term
Platt Amendment
Definition
The US has the right to intervene in Cuba
Term
Direct Primary, Referendum, Recall, Initiative
Definition
Term
Helen Hunt Jackson
Definition
Term
Margaret Sanger
Definition
Term
Jane Addams
Definition
Term
Carrie A. Nation
Definition
Term
Carrie Chapman Catt
Definition
Told women to win the right to vote state by state.
Term
16th Amendments
Definition
Income Tax
Term
17th Amendments
Definition
Senators Elected by Popular Vote
Term
18th Amendments
Definition
banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
Term
19th Amendments
Definition
Women's right to vote
Term
Pure Food and Drug Act
Definition
Term
Meat Inspection Act
Definition
Term
Federal Trade Commission Act
Definition
Made to watch businesses and make sure they followed laws
Term
Federal Reserve Act
Definition
Term
Hepburn Act
Definition
set max prices on on railroad rates
Term
Panama Canal
Definition
Term
Woodrow Wilson
Definition
Lowered tariff on foreign goods
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade commision
Wilson's 14 Points
Term
Theodore Roosevelt
Definition
Square Deal
Trust buster
Term
William McKinley
Definition
Term
William H. Taft
Definition
Term
"Bull Moose" Party
Definition
Term
Why US Entered WWI
Definition
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Economic and Culture ties
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Lusitania
Definition
Passenger ship Germans sunk killing many civilians
Term
Committe on Public Information
Definition
Made to fight rumors
Distributed propaganda
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Espionage Act (1917) & Sedition Amendment (1918)
Definition
Esp Act-set $10k fines for losely defined crimes
Sed Act- Heavy penalties for talking about US gov, flag, or military
Term
African-American in WWI
Definition
"Great Migration"
European soldiers were told to discriminate
Term
League of Nations
Definition
Only 1 of Wilson's policies that went into effect, but US did not enter because they changed it.
Term
13th Ammendment
Definition
Ended Slavery
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14th Ammendment
Definition
Made freedmen citizens
And receive equal treatment
Term
15th Ammendment
Definition
Grants black men right to vote
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