AMH 2010 Final Exam Study Terms
Questions and All Correct Answers
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Nativism - Answer The movement pushing that immigrants were inferior to native-born
Americans
Know-Nothings - Answer A group of Nativists who created a political organization called the
American Party
Erie Canal - Answer A canal system with 88 locks that provided a waterway from New York to
the Great Lakes
John Stevens - Answer An inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive, and was
also influential in the creation of a patent law
Samuel Morse - Answer Creator of the Morse telegraph, which soon connected many of the
cities in America by wire
Associated Press - Answer A cooperative news service connected by the telegraph.
Interchangeable parts - Answer An idea started by Eli Whitney which was applied to gun
factories and eventually many industries.
Lowell System - Answer A system which relied on young unmarried women to work in
factories. It was far more structured and humane than English factory conditions.
Commonwealth v. Hunt - Answer A court case in which the Supreme Court declared that
unions were lawful organizations and that the strike was a lawful weapon.
"Cult of Domesticity" - Answer The idea that women were to place high priorities on "female
virtue", and focus on the roles of wife and mother. It left women detached from the public
world and with out legal or political rights.
Cyrus McCormick - Answer Inventor of the automatic reaper, which allowed a single worker
to harvest as much of a grain as five men could before.
, "Lost Cause" - Answer Nostalgic remembrance of the Confederacy and its leaders, resulting in
honoring the war's heroes and building monuments to those who died in battle
Freedman's Bureau - Answer An agency of the army directed by General Oliver Howard. The
organization distributed food to millions of former slaves, established churches and schools, and
helped both white and black southerners out of poverty
Lincoln Assassination - Answer A murder on April 14 1865 committed by John Wilkes Booth.
The president attended a play at a theater, and was shot in the head by Booth, who was later
killed by union troops.
John Wilkes Booth - Answer American actor who assassinated Lincoln at Ford's theater in
Washington. Booth was a zealous advocate for the Southern cause.
Reconstruction - Answer An attempt to restore the south after the Civil War. Lincoln and
Johnson took the moderate approach, "Radical Republicans" took a harsher method that
benefited former slaves.
Andrew Johnson - Answer Lincoln's Vice President, was the successor of the presidency after
Lincoln was assassinated. Johnson focused on restoring white power in the south, while giving
little support to freed slaves.
Black Codes - Answer Laws enacted through the south which gave whites control over former
slaves. The laws were countered by the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act in 1866.
14th Amendment - Answer Offered the first constitutional definition of American citizenship,
establishing that everyone born or naturalized in the United States was a citizen, with no other
criteria. It also imposed penalties on states that refused to recognize adult males as citizens, and
put restrictions on men who served in the Confederacy.
15th Amendment - Answer Forbade States and Government to deny suffrage to any citizen
on account of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
Scalawags - Answer A detrimental nickname for Southern white Republicans, who believed
that the Republican party would serve their economic interests better than the Democrats.
Carpetbaggers - Answer A nickname for Northern white Republicans who came to the south.
Although portrayed to be penniless, most often they were well-educated middle class men.
Sharecropping - Answer Becoming a tenant of a white landowner, working one's own plot of
land and paying the landlord a share of the crop or fixed rent.
Questions and All Correct Answers
2026 Updated.
Nativism - Answer The movement pushing that immigrants were inferior to native-born
Americans
Know-Nothings - Answer A group of Nativists who created a political organization called the
American Party
Erie Canal - Answer A canal system with 88 locks that provided a waterway from New York to
the Great Lakes
John Stevens - Answer An inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive, and was
also influential in the creation of a patent law
Samuel Morse - Answer Creator of the Morse telegraph, which soon connected many of the
cities in America by wire
Associated Press - Answer A cooperative news service connected by the telegraph.
Interchangeable parts - Answer An idea started by Eli Whitney which was applied to gun
factories and eventually many industries.
Lowell System - Answer A system which relied on young unmarried women to work in
factories. It was far more structured and humane than English factory conditions.
Commonwealth v. Hunt - Answer A court case in which the Supreme Court declared that
unions were lawful organizations and that the strike was a lawful weapon.
"Cult of Domesticity" - Answer The idea that women were to place high priorities on "female
virtue", and focus on the roles of wife and mother. It left women detached from the public
world and with out legal or political rights.
Cyrus McCormick - Answer Inventor of the automatic reaper, which allowed a single worker
to harvest as much of a grain as five men could before.
, "Lost Cause" - Answer Nostalgic remembrance of the Confederacy and its leaders, resulting in
honoring the war's heroes and building monuments to those who died in battle
Freedman's Bureau - Answer An agency of the army directed by General Oliver Howard. The
organization distributed food to millions of former slaves, established churches and schools, and
helped both white and black southerners out of poverty
Lincoln Assassination - Answer A murder on April 14 1865 committed by John Wilkes Booth.
The president attended a play at a theater, and was shot in the head by Booth, who was later
killed by union troops.
John Wilkes Booth - Answer American actor who assassinated Lincoln at Ford's theater in
Washington. Booth was a zealous advocate for the Southern cause.
Reconstruction - Answer An attempt to restore the south after the Civil War. Lincoln and
Johnson took the moderate approach, "Radical Republicans" took a harsher method that
benefited former slaves.
Andrew Johnson - Answer Lincoln's Vice President, was the successor of the presidency after
Lincoln was assassinated. Johnson focused on restoring white power in the south, while giving
little support to freed slaves.
Black Codes - Answer Laws enacted through the south which gave whites control over former
slaves. The laws were countered by the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act in 1866.
14th Amendment - Answer Offered the first constitutional definition of American citizenship,
establishing that everyone born or naturalized in the United States was a citizen, with no other
criteria. It also imposed penalties on states that refused to recognize adult males as citizens, and
put restrictions on men who served in the Confederacy.
15th Amendment - Answer Forbade States and Government to deny suffrage to any citizen
on account of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
Scalawags - Answer A detrimental nickname for Southern white Republicans, who believed
that the Republican party would serve their economic interests better than the Democrats.
Carpetbaggers - Answer A nickname for Northern white Republicans who came to the south.
Although portrayed to be penniless, most often they were well-educated middle class men.
Sharecropping - Answer Becoming a tenant of a white landowner, working one's own plot of
land and paying the landlord a share of the crop or fixed rent.
