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History 203-Exam 1 Set
Exam 1-Coates class
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Undergraduate 1
04/29/2011

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What was the American Civil War primarily fought over?
Definition
State's Rights, how much they have over the Federal Government
Term
What did the Union and Confederacy represent?
Definition
Union-Federal Government
Confederacy- State Governments
Term
How did radicals feel about the South coming back in the Union?
Definition
Since they left, they believed that they should be punished. Everybody else wanted them back in quickly.
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What was the Reconstruction?
Definition
1865-1877. Bringing the South back into the Union and how they would be treated. Also how slavery will end.
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What was Lincoln's Policy to have the South back in the Union?
Definition
10% Plan. December 8th 1863. When 10% of any southern state takes an oath then they may be let back into the union.
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What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
Definition
50% of a state population had to take an outh and they would deny rights to high Confederacy civil and military officers. They also had to pay back debts.
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What happened to the Wade-Davis Bill?
Definition
It was pocket-vetoed
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Who took Lincoln's place after he was assassinated in 1865?
Definition
Andrew Johnson. Southerner and Democrat. He would balnace it.
Term
What did Andrew Johnson represent?
Definition
The poor southern farmer- yeoman farmers
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What is the 13th Amendment?
Definition
Abolishment of slavery
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Who had the power to enforce the 13th amendment?
Definition
Congress
Term
What was the Joint Committee and who created it?
Definition
It was created by Congress, represented the Legislative vs. Executive battle.
Each state district had a general to rule and prepare states to be readmistered back into the Union. Johnson culdn't veto it.
Term
How did the South resist?
Definition
Black codes, just because they were free they had no rights.
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What was the Civil rights Bill of 1865?
Definition
It led the 14th amendment.
Term
What was the 14th Amendment?
Definition
Blacks had the rights of the constitution, due process, and citizenship
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What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Definition
Welfare distrubuted neccessities to men.
Term
Who did the 15th amendment NOT include?
Definition
Women
Term
What was the 15th amendment?
Definition
Any man who was a citizen had the right to vote.
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What did women start out fighting for?
Definition
The abolishment of slavery.
Term
Who headed the ERA?
Definition
Susan B. Anthony
Term
Who headed the AWSA?
Definition
Julia Ward
Term
What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Definition
This would break the southern states into military districts ran by voted generals.
Term
What was Johnson's reaction to the Reconstruction Act?
Definition
He vetoed this, but Congress passed it anyway
Term
What was the Army Appropriation Act?
Definition
All acts had to pass through the general
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What was the Tenure of Office Act?
Definition
Congress can only remove cabinet members, not president.
Term
What did Congress do to Johnson?
Definition
They impeached him, but it was later judged unconstitutional.
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What are the type of people that went down to the South to grab opprotunities from the destruction?
Definition
Carpetbaggers, Scallywags, Northern Jews, and Blacks.
Term
Who won the Election of 1868?
Definition
Ulysses Grant, an old war general.
Term
What was the Ohio gang idea?
Definition
Pay back war debts with greenbacks, and just print of money.
Term
What occured when so much money was printed out?
Definition
Inflation.
Term
What did the U.S. citizens value in the Reconstruction era?
Definition
Island communities- Own traditions and culture.
Term
What was the Gilded Age?
Definition
A showy age, where people tried to look more rich. Nobody was though.
Term
What was the Spoils System?
Definition
There was no civil service. Most politicians would give jobs to their supporters and friends. People were pressured to vote for a certain candinate.
Term
Who was Mary "Boss" Tweed?
Definition
Was a political ring leader. The most corrupted.
Term
Who had the most corrupt administration in the U.S.?
Definition
Grant
Term
What was the Whiskey ring?
Definition
A secretary in Grant's administration was accepting bribes so that a ring of distillers didn't have to file taxes.
Term
What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
Definition
The construction company that helped build the Union Pacific Railroad. They steered large fraulent contracts and keeping the Union Pacific from millions. It was revealed that the vice president had accepted stock.
Term
What were Grant's failures?
Definition
Didn't know anythign about non-military issues.
Appointed inadequate cabinet members.
Knew nothing of economies.
Didn't understand the changes in laws.
All of the scandals that occured
Term
What did Grant succeed in?
Definition
Foreign Policy: Removal of French from Mexico.
Seward's Folley: Purchase of Alaska
Midway island: Trade between America and Asia
Proposed anexation of san Domingo
Term
What was the "Alalbama claims"?
Definition
The argument between England and the U.S. about whether England owed them money because they helped out the Confederacy. Eventually there was an agreement.
Term
Why did the Panic of 1873 happen?
Definition
Overspeculation. There was too much investment.
Term
Who won in the election of 1876?
Definition
Rutherford B. Hayes.
Term
What was the Civil Service Reform?
Definition
This was to hand out government jobs fairly
Term
What was different about the Republican win with Garfield?
Definition
It wasn't corrupted for once.
Term
Who was the 2nd president to be assassinated?
Definition
Garfield
Term
Who took over the presidency after Garfield?
Definition
Chester A. Arthur
Term
What was the Pendleton Act?
Definition
Required that some federal jobs be filled by competitive written examinations.
Term
What did the Civil Service result in?
Definition
Other presidents followed and it led to job security.
Term
What happened in the Election of 1884?
Definition
Cleveland was elected-Democrat
Term
What were the Erie Wars?
Definition
This was between Vanderbilt and Fisk. Competing to control the railroads.
Term
What was the major big business?
Definition
Railroads
Term
How was the public being used in the expansion of railroads?
Definition
Land was being taken away without getting proper payment.
Term
Who had most control over the railroads?
Definition
Vanderbilt.
Term
What was the Old Order?
Definition
These were island communities. Self-sufficient.
Term
What is the New Order?
Definition
Maximized efficiency, regularity, and order. Not as secure, but growing period.
Term
What destroyed the old order?
Definition
Railroads, corporations, National Wholesale houses, National banks, immigrants, and cities.
Term
What were some of the ideas to recapture old order?
Definition
Antimonoplism
Northern and Souther alliances
Anti-immigrant groups.
Christian capitalism
Knights of Labor
Term
What was the Haymarket Riot of 1886?
Definition
It was a labor strike and someone threw a bomb that killed seven police officers. The plice began firing into the crowd. There were 8 people killed and the 7 police officers.
Term
What were the "Redeemers"?
Definition
These were powerful consevative Southerners.
Term
What were the ideas of the Ku Klux Klan?
Definition
They came from Tennessee, WASPS, believed in using fear to control and they were suppose to be dressed as the ghosts of the confederate soldiers. They believed in keeping the white, Protestant, males in control.
Term
Who were the faces of the educated new African Americans?
Definition
Booker T. Washington and Debois.
Term
What was Booker T. Washington's philosophy on becoming accepted by the U.S.?
Definition
Have to have education to be an equal.
Term
What was Deboois's philosophy on being accepted by the U.S.?
Definition
Have a good job and abide by the law.
Term
What was the advantages of the "Last Frontier"?
Definition
No obstacles, mining frontier, territories were large, Quartz mining
Term
What was the Dawes Act of 1887?
Definition
Integrated lands for Indians, take away the culture, and assimilate to bew Americans.
Term
What was the Ghost Dance?
Definition
A ritual performed by the Native Americans to get help from their ancestors.
Term
What was the Wounded Knee massacre?
Definition
Tribes were slaughtered because troops saw the Ghost Dance as a sign of attack.
Term
What was the Boom and Bust?
Definition
It was in the West. Some years were very good, but other years were horrible.
Term
What was invented to keep cattle in?
Definition
Barbed wire, very helpful to ranchers
Term
Why was there an influx of farmers in the West?
Definition
They had the idea of free land to spread farms.
Term
What were some new state laws in the West?
Definition
Australlian ballot, referendum-people vote, intiative (ideas from the people)
Term
What were the women's roles out in the West?
Definition
Given the right to vol because of need of representation. Women also worked like men.
Term
What was the "Goddess of Progress"?
Definition
Pushing Indians into the dark and bringing assimilated Americans to the Western world.
Term
What happened during the Election of 1877?
Definition
Tildon vs. Hayes, Hayes won.
Term
What was the Revolution in Values out in the West?
Definition
Farmeres weren't going to prosper, efficincy crazy, and the presidency role is increased.
Term
What did railroads succeed in?
Definition
Opened agricultural areas, moved things cheaper and quicker, and broke down island communities.
Term
What was the idea of Social Darwinism?
Definition
Everbody had to fight to be on top.
Term
When did automobile production begin?
Definition
1895
Term
When did Airplane production begin?
Definition
1899, but didn't play a role until the 30's and 40's
Term
When did Airplane production begin?
Definition
1899, but didn't play a role until the 30's and 40's
Term
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Definition
Rise of steal, found somebody to blow out the impurities out of iron to make steal.
Term
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Definition
That the rich should give away money after a while and make society better. "He who dies rich dies in disgrace."
Term
What is Vertical considation?
Definition
Control permit and control all phases from beginning to end. This eliminates the middle man.
Term
What is Horizontal considation?
Definition
Purchase the product, gain rebates, selective price cutting. You don't own the entire production line. Controls all different businesses like Carnegie Steel.
Term
What was the government's role in business?
Definition
They stayed out of it.
Term
What was the Great Migration?
Definition
Most people moved North, including Blacks, to the cities.
Term
What were the immigrants being told to do?
Definition
Assimilate
Term
What was the Global Migration?
Definition
More immigrants: cheap labor
Term
What were some of the problems of the Urban Life?
Definition
Fire, disease, pollution, and filth on the streets.
Term
What began to develop in Urban areas?
Definition
Public angencies like the Salvation Army
Term
What were Urban Bosses?
Definition
They weren't elected, but they represented for the city.
Term
What was some of the Mass Consumption?
Definition
Rising incomes, chain stores, Department storms, Women's roles rose
Term
What was the Melting Pot of America?
Definition
People began to form customs and everybody tried to assimilate that way.
Term
What was the job industry like?
Definition
Machines replaced people, decline of skills, work was quick and reptitive, long hours, very difficult, workers were at risk.
Term
What was the Fair Standard Act of 1933?
Definition
Outlawed Child Labor
Term
What did workers form?
Definition
Co-ops. Consumer vs. workers. The Knights of Labor
Term
What was the Populist Part?
Definition
Product of Farmer's revolt
Term
What was the IWW?
Definition
Industrial Workers of the World, workers rule, Wobbles
Term
What was the Homestead Strike of 1892?
Definition
Carnegie's firm. Militia had to put down with force.
Term
What was the Pullman's Strike of 1894?
Definition
going to lay off workers and there was a rvolt.
Term
What were the coaroado Labor Wars of 1905?
Definition
Mining strikes.
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