U.S. History II Mid-Term (1-10) – Flashcards
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Why are the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments considered the greatest achievements of Reconstruction?
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Until the 14th amendment, African Americans had no rights at all. However, that all changed when the 14th amendment was put in place in the Constitution.
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What did the Ku Klux Klan do to prevent African Americans from making political and economic progress?
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They used threats and violence in order to prevent African Americans from voting.
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How did African Americans try to rebuild their lives after the Civil War?
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They began to buy and work land on their own, and only men could vote.
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What systems replaced the plantation system in the South?
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Sharecropping and tenant farming.
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What were some of the hardships that frontier farmers faced in the mid-late 1800s?
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Frontier farmers faced harsh weather conditions, and had dangerous living conditions.
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How effective was the Dawes Act in helping Native Americans become part of White culture?
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It was a failure.
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How did the government support settlement of the West?
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The government provided land grants and gave away land to families for farming.
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What economic problems confronted American farmers in the 1890s?
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Falling prices of wheat, rising costs of shipping grain, increasing prices of machinery.
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What factors allowed the United States to industrialize very rapidly during the last half of the 19th century?
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Natural resources, abundant labor supply, and growing population.
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Who benefited more from the ideas of Social Darwinism, business leaders or workers?
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Business leaders.
