ONRAMPS US HISTORY Midterm unit 1 &
2 terms UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
10% Plan (Lincoln) - CORRECT ANSWER - Confederate states would be readmitted if
10% of the population took a loyalty oath and the state ratified the 13th Amendment
Amendment 13, 14, 15 - CORRECT ANSWER - All civil rights amendments: Abolition of
slavery, Civil Rights, and Granted Blacks the right to vote
black codes - CORRECT ANSWER - Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed
slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) - CORRECT ANSWER - A secret organization that used terrorist
tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.
Radical Reconstruction - CORRECT ANSWER - period beginning in 1867, when the
Republicans who had control in both houses of Congress, took charge of Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens - CORRECT ANSWER - A Radical Republican who believed in harsh
punishments for the South. Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress.
Cross of Gold Speech - CORRECT ANSWER - An impassioned address by William
Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic Convention, in which he attacked the "gold bugs" who
insisted that U.S. currency be backed only with gold.
Dawes Act - CORRECT ANSWER - 1887 law that distributed reservation land to
individual Native American owners
Frederick Jackson Turner - CORRECT ANSWER - United States historian who stressed
the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)
, Homestead Act - CORRECT ANSWER - 1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone
willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.
Omaha Platform - CORRECT ANSWER - Political agenda adopted by the populist party
in 1892 at their Omaha, Nebraska convention. Called for unlimited coinage of silver
(bimetallism), government regulation of railroads and industry, graduated income tax, and a
number of election reforms.
Ocala Platform - CORRECT ANSWER - A (farmers) platform that would have significant
impact in later years: They supported 1) direct election of US senators, 2) lower tariff rates, 3) a
graduated income tax, and 4) a new banking system regulated by the federal govt.
Populist Party - CORRECT ANSWER - U.S. political party formed in 1892 representing
mainly farmers, favoring free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other
monopolies
William Jennings Bryan - CORRECT ANSWER - United States lawyer and politician who
advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee
high school (1860-1925)
Andrew Carnegie - CORRECT ANSWER - A Scottish-born American industrialist and
philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company
dominated the American steel industry.
Columbian Exposition of 1893 - CORRECT ANSWER - World's fair, inspired the city
beautiful movement, had neoclassical architecture - ambitious plans
Cornelius Vanderbilt - CORRECT 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.
2 terms UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
10% Plan (Lincoln) - CORRECT ANSWER - Confederate states would be readmitted if
10% of the population took a loyalty oath and the state ratified the 13th Amendment
Amendment 13, 14, 15 - CORRECT ANSWER - All civil rights amendments: Abolition of
slavery, Civil Rights, and Granted Blacks the right to vote
black codes - CORRECT ANSWER - Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed
slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) - CORRECT ANSWER - A secret organization that used terrorist
tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.
Radical Reconstruction - CORRECT ANSWER - period beginning in 1867, when the
Republicans who had control in both houses of Congress, took charge of Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens - CORRECT ANSWER - A Radical Republican who believed in harsh
punishments for the South. Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress.
Cross of Gold Speech - CORRECT ANSWER - An impassioned address by William
Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic Convention, in which he attacked the "gold bugs" who
insisted that U.S. currency be backed only with gold.
Dawes Act - CORRECT ANSWER - 1887 law that distributed reservation land to
individual Native American owners
Frederick Jackson Turner - CORRECT ANSWER - United States historian who stressed
the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)
, Homestead Act - CORRECT ANSWER - 1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone
willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.
Omaha Platform - CORRECT ANSWER - Political agenda adopted by the populist party
in 1892 at their Omaha, Nebraska convention. Called for unlimited coinage of silver
(bimetallism), government regulation of railroads and industry, graduated income tax, and a
number of election reforms.
Ocala Platform - CORRECT ANSWER - A (farmers) platform that would have significant
impact in later years: They supported 1) direct election of US senators, 2) lower tariff rates, 3) a
graduated income tax, and 4) a new banking system regulated by the federal govt.
Populist Party - CORRECT ANSWER - U.S. political party formed in 1892 representing
mainly farmers, favoring free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other
monopolies
William Jennings Bryan - CORRECT ANSWER - United States lawyer and politician who
advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee
high school (1860-1925)
Andrew Carnegie - CORRECT ANSWER - A Scottish-born American industrialist and
philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company
dominated the American steel industry.
Columbian Exposition of 1893 - CORRECT ANSWER - World's fair, inspired the city
beautiful movement, had neoclassical architecture - ambitious plans
Cornelius Vanderbilt - CORRECT 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.
