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UGA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAMS WITH SOLUTIONS Question Set | Comprehensive Answer Key Robert Smalls - answer - Enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician; freed himself, his crew and their families from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, and sailing it to freedom beyond the blockade Helped convince Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers into the Union Army Ten Percent Plan - answer - Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government after ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States Meant to shorten the war Hoped to weaken the southern cause by making it easy for disillusioned or lukewarm confederates to switch sides Hoped to further his emancipation proclamation by insisting that the new governments abolish slavery Radical Republicans - answer - After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South Favored protection for black rights (especially black, male suffrage) Wade-Davis Bill - answer - Legislation requiring 50% of the voters to take an oath of future loyalty before the restoration process could begin Once they took the oath, those who could wear they had never willingly supported the confederacy could vote in an election for delegates to a constitutional convention Passed after congress refused to recognize Lincoln's 10 percent governments Railroads were the first - answer - Modern corporation Cornelius Vanderbilt - answer - A railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads safer and more economical. John D. Rockefeller - answer - Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history J.P. Morgan - answer - Banker who buys out Carnegie Steel and renames it to U.S. Steel Was a philanthropist in a way; he gave all the money needed for WWI and was payed back Was one of the "Robber barons" Haymarket Riot (1886) - answer - The riot took place in Chicago between rioters and the police It ended when someone threw a bomb that killed dozens The riot was suppressed, and in addition with the damaged reputation of unions, it also killed the Knights of Labor, who were seen as anarchists. American Federation of Labor - answer - 1886; founded by Samuel Gompers; sought better wages, hrs, working conditions; skilled laborers, arose out of dissatisfaction with the Knights of Labor, rejected socialist and communist ideas, non-violent. Vertical Integration - answer - Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution Example: Phillip Armour's meat company Horizontal Integration - answer - Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level Example: Rockefeller Dawes Act of 1887 - answer - Tried to civilize Indians and make them more little settlers by giving them land to farm, instead it harmed their native culture General Philip Sheridan - answer - ordered by Grant to wage total war in Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. He burned and destroyed all farmland, animals and food The Ghost Dance Movement - answer - The last effort of Native Americans to resist US domination and drive whites from their ancestral lands, came through as a religious movement. Little Big Horn - answer - General Custer and his men were wiped out by a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Geronimo - answer - Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation () Bureau of Indian Affairs - answer - A government agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy
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