History Notes Part II
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
what statement best describes changing population patterns between 1860 and 1890?
answer
most new immigrants to the US settled in cities
question
what invention was not due to the building boom in the late 1800s?
answer
carriage
question
what led critics to complain about the types of stories covered in newspapers in the late 1800s?
answer
yellow journalism
question
how did the population increase during the building boom in the late 1800s affect city life?
answer
skyscrapers were built to conserve space
question
the chinese exclusion act
answer
was a law to prevent a national group from the US (1st)
question
what had the strongest effect on the growth of public education after the Civil war?
answer
compulsory education laws
question
what belongs to the list of remedies that reforms used to solve city problems
answer
stricter city laws
question
how did the immigrants adapt to life in the US
answer
by acculturating
question
in the late 1800s, what was the most appealing form of entertainment to immigrants?
answer
vaudeville
question
what would a nativist agree with?
answer
immigrants steal jobs from people who were born in this country
question
what provided community centers that offered services to the poor?
answer
settlement houses
question
how did the building boom affect city life?
answer
traffic congestion became a major problem.
question
muckrakers fought corruption by?
answer
arousing public opinion
question
what was one effect of corruption on city government
answer
bribery became a common way of doing business.
question
what is a pull factor?
answer
factors that attract you to a new country
question
what were three pull factors associated with American immigration in the late 1800s?
answer
1. Industrial jobs 2. California gold rush of 1849 3. Land opportunities
question
what is a push factor?
answer
factors that make you want to leave the country that you are currently in
question
what were three push factors associated with American immigration in the late 1800s?
answer
1. religious persecution/primogeniture 2. pogroms: organized attacks on jewish villages 3. Irish potato famine
question
what was the name of the west coast equivalent of Ellis island?
answer
Angel Island
question
started central park
answer
Frederick law olmsted
question
started trolleys
answer
Frank Sprague
question
started basketball
answer
james naismith
question
started ragtime
answer
scott joplin
question
wrote "how the other half lives"
answer
Jacob Riis
question
wrote "the jungle"
answer
upton sinclair
question
wrote "the history of standard oil"
answer
ida tarbell
question
started the salvation army
answer
william booth
question
the city where the first subway was built
answer
Boston, Massachussetts
question
Name the city where the first steel frame skyscraper was built
answer
chicago, illinois
question
who drew political cartoons making fun of corrupt NYC mayer
answer
Thomas Nast
question
what amendment cerated the first federal income tax
answer
16th amendment
question
what amendment allowed the voters to choose US senators directly
answer
17th amendment
question
what were four services the Hull houses provided for poor immigrants?
answer
1. recreational activities 2. education 3. housing services 4. doctors and first aid services
question
what were the four major progressive political reforms?
answer
1. referendum: voters have the right to put a bill on the ballot and vote it into law. 2. recall: people decide to remove elected officials from office 3. initiative: people can propose a bill put on by the legislative branch and in return they speak their mind about it 4. primary: elect representative for a specific political party
question
what organization first recognized a practical use for the Wright brothers' best known invention?
answer
united states military
question
what statement best exemplifies the impact of technology on economics in the late 1800s?
answer
wages for workers declined as more factories used new machines to produce goods
question
what advance made a network of railroad lines possible?
answer
a standard gauge
question
what was not a factor in the growth of huge steel empires after the CW?
answer
the development of less-polluting manufacturing process
question
who laid an underwater cable that transmitted telegraph messages from North America to Europe?
answer
cyrus field
question
what was not a problem that led workers to form labor unions?
answer
high unemployment rates
question
what practice led many farmers to join the populist party?
answer
railroad owners used rebates and pools to keep prices artificially high
question
what strategy did John D. Rockefeller use to strengthen standard oil?
answer
forced Railroads to give him rebates
question
Catholics
answer
The group that first settled the colony of Maryland to escape persecution in England.
question
The primary reason that England passed the Navigation Act.
answer
To tighten its control over colonial trade
question
Africans
answer
The following group enjoyed the least freedom in the English colonies.
question
The following was a result of the Southern Colonies' reliance on slave labor in the 1700's.
answer
The number of enslaved Africans dramatically increased
question
How was Pennsylvania founded?
answer
King Charles II granted land to William Penn
question
who were the Puritans?
answer
The following group left England because they believed the nation had fallen on "evil times".
question
Eight English nobles set up the colony of South Carolina. Is this statement TRUE or FALSE?
answer
True
question
what was the The Great Awakening?
answer
The following was a religious movement that helped spread democratic feelings in the colonies.
question
How were class differences among the people in the colonies reflected in the education of children?
answer
Children of wealthy families could afford to attend private schools
question
One result of the rivalry between the Netherlands and England.
answer
New Netherland became New York
question
Why did the Puritans leave England for Massachusetts?
answer
To build a society based on biblical teachings
question
Pennsylvania
answer
Which colony was founded by a Quaker as a model of religious freedom and peace?
question
How was Benjamin Franklin a model of the Enlightenment spirit?
answer
He used reason to improve the world around him
question
A new colony was made up of lands that the Duke of York gave to friends.
answer
New Jersey
question
Why did the Calvert family found the colony of Maryland?
answer
To allow Catholics to practice their religion freely
question
What was the purpose of colonial New England town meetings?
answer
To discuss important community issues
question
At first, this was an obstacle to growing rice in the Carolinas.
answer
English laws
question
One difference between slaves and indentured servants in 1700s colonial society.
answer
Indentured servants received "freedom" dues for their work, and slaves were treated as property
question
Why did people follow Roger Williams from Massachusetts to Rhode Island?
answer
They wanted greater religious freedom
question
List ten things Significant about Ben Franklin.
answer
He invented the Franklin Stove, He invented the Lightning Rod, He invented swim flippers, He invented the bifocals, He started the 1st Hospital, He started the 1st insurance company, He started the 1st Fire Department, He started the 1st weekly newspaper, He wrote the Poor Richards Almanac, and he signed the Declaration of Independence.
question
What was the final battle of the Revolutionary War?
answer
Yorktown
question
What crucial mistake did British General Cornwallis make that led to the defeat of the British army?
answer
He disregarded an order and retreated to Yorktown Peninsula
question
When Richard Henry Lee said that he was now "convinced of the necessity of separation," what was he describing?
answer
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
question
What step marked the colonists' final decision regarding their relationship with Britain?
answer
Congress voted to approve the Declaration of Independence
question
How can you restate the main idea of the Declaration of Independence?
answer
Everyone has the right to life and liberty
question
What was one of the strengths that was significant t the Continental Army's ultimate victory?
answer
Military strategy based on the local geography
question
What is not one of the terms of the Treaty of Paris?
answer
Canada was returned to France
question
Why did fighting break out at Lexington and Concord in April 1775?
answer
British troops tried to seize colonists' arms and ammunition
question
Which was was NOT one of the ways Britain punished Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party?
answer
Parliament passed the Tea Act
question
"Boston harbor is a teapot tonight! The Mohawks are come!" -To what historical event does this quotation refer?
answer
The Boston Tea Party
question
"Boston harbor is a teapot tonight! The Mohawks are come!" -What clue about the colonists' intentions is revealed in this quotation?
answer
The colonists planned to destroy British property
question
Why did the colonists say "The Mohawks are come"?
answer
Colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped tea into Boston Harbor
question
"Boston harbor is a teapot tonight! The Mohawks are come!" -What was the goal of the colonists quoted above?
answer
To protest the effect of the Tea Act of 1773 on colonial tea merchants
question
Which organization first recognized a practical use for the Wright brothers' best-known invention?
answer
The United States military
question
Which advance made a network of railroad lines possible?
answer
A standard gauge
question
What was NOT a factor in the growth of huge steel empires after the Civil War?
answer
The development of a less-pollution manufacturing process
question
Who laid an underwater cable that transmitted telegraph messages from North America to Europe?
answer
Cyrus Field
question
What practice led many small farmers to join the Populist party?
answer
Railroad owners used rebates and pools to keep prices artificially high
question
A statement that explains how railroad rebates worked.
answer
Railroad owners gave secret discounts to their biggest costumers.
question
The following inventions were developed by Thomas Edison.
answer
Motion picture projector, electric power plant, and the phonograph
question
What was the most important effect of Henry Ford's method of automobile production?
answer
Millions of Americans could afford automobiles
question
Thomas Edison was known as the wizard of Menlo Park because he?
answer
Systematized the process of creating inventions
question
John D. Rockefeller would MOST likely agree with what statement?
answer
Competition in the market place creates waste and inefficiency
question
Which trait of American business leaders did NOT contribute to their creation of huge steel empires in the late 1800s?
answer
Generosity
question
The telegraph, the transatlantic telegraph cable, and the telephone were important to businesses after 1850 because why?
answer
The filled a need that other inventions of the day could not
question
Who benefited MOST from completion of the transatlantic cable?
answer
Businesses that shipped products to Britain
question
What statement BEST explains how banks contributed to the growth of the economy in the years after the Civil War?
answer
Banks lent millions of dollars to corporations
question
Who, along with Henry Ford, devised the theory of scientific management?
answer
Frederic Taylor
question
What is Fordism?
answer
Combining mass production with mass consumption
question
Did the Brown vs. Board of Education end legal segregation in the U.S.?
answer
False, It only ended segregation in schools
question
What statement BEST describes changing population patterns between 1860 and 1890?
answer
Most new immigrants to the United States settled in cities
question
What was the relationship between factory work and the interest in sports in the late 1800s?
answer
As factory work intensified, workers sought sports as a means of relaxation
question
What invention was NOT due to the building boon in the late 1800s?
answer
The carriage
question
What led critics to complain about the types of stories covered in newspapers in the late 1800s?
answer
Yellow journalism
question
The Chinese Exclusion Act was?
answer
The first law to prevent a national group from entering the United States
question
What had one of the strongest effects on the growth of public education after the Civil War?
answer
Compulsory Education Laws
question
What belongs in a list of remedies that reformers used to solve city problems?
answer
Professional fire companies
question
What describes a main theme found in realist writing in the late 1800s?
answer
The problems of the poor
question
What did compulsory education laws require?
answer
Children must attend school
question
What was amnesty?
answer
A government pardon
question
What were black codes?
answer
Laws that severley limited the rights of freedmen
question
What was a poll tax?
answer
Fee paid to vote
question
What was segregation?
answer
Legal separation of races
question
What was a freeman?
answer
Former slave
question
What was a carpetbagger?
answer
A term for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
question
What was a sharecropper?
answer
A person who rented and farmed a piece of land
question
What was scalawag?
answer
A term for a white southern Republican
question
Why did conflict erupt shortly after the assassination of President Lincoln?
answer
Republicans disapproved of President Johnson's Reconstruction plan
question
Why did southern states agree to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment?
answer
Ratification of the amendment helped their states win presidential approval to rejoin the Union
question
What was a result of southern Conservative resistance to Reconstruction?
answer
Violence toward African Americans increased
question
What helped bring about the end of Reconstruction?
answer
Stories of corruption in Grant's administration
question
Why did Reconstruction governments increase taxes after the Civil War?
answer
To cover the costs of rebuilding the South
question
What required freedmen to know certain sections of the Constitution in order to vote?
answer
Literary tests
question
What early Reconstruction measure directly contributed to the education of former slaves?
answer
The Freedman's Bureau
question
Why did the black codes infuriate Republican representatives?
answer
They thought that the black codes deprived African Americans of equal opportunities
question
What list identifies the new forces in southern politics after the Civil War?
answer
Scalawags, white conservatives, white southern Republicans
question
Congress rebelled against President Johnson's Reconstruction plan because they thought what?
answer
That it was too lenient
question
What did the Amnesty Act do?
answer
It restored the vote to most white southerners
question
How did southern Conservatives resist Reconstruction?
answer
They resorted to violence against African Americans and white Republicans
question
Why did sharecroppers become trapped in a cycle of poverty?
answer
They did not earn enough cash to pay their debts
question
what is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
answer
FDIC insures individual deposits up to $5000 ($100,000 today)
question
what was The Indian New Deal?
answer
Its laws gave Native Americans more control over their own affairs.
question
what was the Wagner Act?
answer
Workers gained the legal right to collective bargaining.
question
what was the IMMEDIATE cause of the Crash of 1929?
answer
Investors who were unable to repay loans tried to sell stocks
question
when and what was "Black Tuesday"?
answer
October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed. Lead to the Panic of 1929
question
who were the "Brain trust"?
answer
Group of expert policy advisers who worked with FDR in the 1930s to end the great depression
question
what is amnesty?
answer
a government pardon
question
what was the "black code"?
answer
law severely limiting rights of freedmen
question
what is a poll tax?
answer
fee paid to vote
question
what is segregation?
answer
legal separation of races
question
what is a freedman?
answer
former slave
question
what is a carpetbagger?
answer
term for northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
question
who is a sharecropper?
answer
person who rented and farmed a piece of land
question
who is a scalawag?
answer
term for a white southern Republican
question
This event BEST summarizes early Recontruction efforts...
answer
Lincoln signed a bill establishing the Freedman's Bureau
question
Radical Republicans gained power in Congress by...
answer
joining forces with moderate Republicans to reduce the power of southern Democrats.
question
how MOST freedmen met basic needs after the Civil War ended...
answer
they returned to the land where they had worked as slaves.
question
_______ required freedmen to know certain sections of the Constitution in order to vote?
answer
Literacy Tests (for freedmen)
question
what is Martial Law?
answer
rule by the army instead of by the elected government
question
what is habeas corpus?
answer
right to a hearing before being jailed
question
what is inflation?
answer
rise in prices and decrease in the value of money
question
battle of fredericksburg?
answer
an 1862 civil war battle in virginia; one of the union's worst defeats
question
battle of shiloh?
answer
Held in Shiloh, Tennessee was the bloodiest of the Civil War.
question
battle of chancellorsville?
answer
Confederate Victory; May 1, 1863; Stonewall Jackson died due to Friendly fire
question
What is the moon made of?
answer
spare ribs; heck!
