Chapters 19&20 Study Guide – American History – Flashcards
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The major profit of the new south gospel was
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Henry W Grady
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The new south gospel emphasized all the following except
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Woman's rights
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Proponents of the new south believed that the south should
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Industrialize
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In the late 1800s the south experienced major increases in the production of all of the following areas except
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Automobiles
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The American tobacco company
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Dominated the US tobacco industry by the 20th century
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Why was Alabama named "the Pittsburgh of the south"
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It was an iron center
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Who was a prominent southern tobacco executive in the south during the late 19th century
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James Buchanan duke
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King cotton survived the Civil war and expanded over new acreage
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Because traditional over planting of the crop continued
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Bourbons
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Was the term used to refer to the new south political leadership that meant to depict that leadership as reactionary
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Under bourbon rule in the south, state spending for public education
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Dramatically declined
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The very poor generally did not migrate to the west because
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They generally could not afford the expense of transportation, land, and supplies
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Six states were created from the western territories in the years 1889 to 1890. these states were not admitted before 1889 because
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Democrats in Congress were reluctant to create states out of territories that were heavily Republican
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Why was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed in 1851 significant to westward expansion
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It allowed white immigrants to travel on the trails of Plains Indians unmolested
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Following the 1867 "report on the condition of the Indian tribes", congress decided that the best way to end the Indian wars was to
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Persuade the Indians to live on out-of-the-way reservations
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In the battle at the Little Bighorn River in 1876
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Some 2500 Indians annihilated detachment of 210 soldiers
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The Indian tribe that defeated Custer and put up the greatest resistance to US domination was the
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Sioux
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In 1877 Pres. Rutherford Hayes address the American approach to dealing with Native Americans, saying
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"Indian wars have had their origin in broken promises and acts of injustice on our part"
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What was the purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act
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It's sought to "Americanize " Indians by dealing with them as individuals
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"Cowtown" refers to
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Towns that grew up in the west as a result of the expanding cattle industry
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As railroads spread into Texas and across the plains, the cattle business
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Spread with them
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Congress passed the homestead act
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To encourage settlement of the Western lands
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Why was the development of cast-iron and steel-frame construction techniques significant to the growth of cities?
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They allowed developers to erect high-rise buildings
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Which region of the US had the greatest proportion of urban dwellers
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The Far West
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One of the reasons mass transit was significant to developing cities was because
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It allowed larger numbers of people to become commuters and live away from the central city
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By 1900, all of the following technologies had helped transform mass transit except
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Gasoline-powered buses
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As a result of overcrowding, sanitation, and ventilation problems in tenements
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The morality rate among the urban poor was much higher than the general population
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All of the following contributed to epidemics, disease, and high mortality rates in the growing cities except
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The banishment of animals to outside city limits
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For public health officials and municipal engineers who tried to clean up the city and it's public health dangers were called
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Sanitary reformers
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What do cholera, typhoid, and yellow fever all have in common
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They are all water-related diseases
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In 1890, New York City had twice as many Irish as
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Dublin
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After 1890, most immigrants were
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From southern and Eastern Europe
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Ellis island was located right outside
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New York City
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The Chinese exclusion act of 1882 was significant in American immigration history because it
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Was the first federal law to restrict immigration on the basis of race and class
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The exclusion of Chinese immigrants
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Originally called for a ten-year term
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One of the reasons parks and outdoor recreation became popular in the late 19th century was because
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Concerns over congestion and to disease led many to seek ways to restore the vitality and improve their health
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Why did so many of the urban working poor often seek recreation and leisure on street corners and front stoops
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They did not have sufficient free time or money to enjoy many of the other leisure and entertainment options
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Baseball could lay claim to being the most democratic sport in nineteenth-century America because
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People of all social classes attended the games
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Herbert Spencer
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Coined the phrase "survival of the fittest "
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William Graham Sumner
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Argued in his book "folkways" that it was a mistake for the government to interfere with established customs
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The main idea to reform Darwinism was that
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Cooperation, not competition, would best promote progress
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Lester Frank Ward's Version of reform Darwinism argued all of the following except
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Humanity cannot control the process of evolution
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Why was Lester frank Ward's "dynamic sociology" considered a challenge to William Graham Sumner's "social Darwinism"
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Ward argued that cooperation among people better promoted progress, well summer believed in the competition
