AMH 2020 Exam Verified Questions 2025
Ended Reconstruction. In exchange for a republican
president being elected, congress offered to end
The compromise of 1877 reconstruction.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been
13th amendment duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any
place subject to their jurisdiction
The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal
protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to
14th amendment issues related to former slaves following the American
Civil War.
The right of citizens...to vote shall not be denied or
abridged...on account of race, color, or previous condition
15th amendment of servitude.
the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by
providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange,
homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to
Homestead act complete five years of continuous residence before
receiving ownership of the land.
The Mormons were persecuted and moved to Utah to
Church of Latter Day Saints settle. Utah became a mormon influenced state.
Dominant group in the northern part of the West. Native
Americans thought that Americans would be just passing
through but the homestead act changed that. 1862 War
broke out between minnesota settlers and the sioux. 1874
Sioux gold is found in a sioux reservation.
A group of indians led by Black Kettle were slaughtered en
route to sign a treaty. John Chimington led the attack. over
200 indians died, and it spurred the creation of the Indian
Sand creek massacre Peace Commission.
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called for a moral and christian approach when dealing
with Indians. Handed over Indian reservations to the
Indian Peace Commission churches in order to persuade Indians into christianity and
into our culture
battle over gold. The sioux are completely wiped out when
they had to conflict over not wanting to give up their land.
Little Big Horn
Indians were forced at gunpoint to leave their home to go
to the bosque reservation. The land was not useful and it
The Long Walk (1863-1866) led to starving people and financial disaster.
"pen" for the indians so the americans could use their land.
meant to try to change indians to be more American-like
Reservations
Railroads had a huge impact on the country with the
Transcontinental Railroad movement of people and goods. shortens country and
1869 expands cities.
adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of
the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and
Dawes Act 1887 divide it into allotments for individual Indians. breaks up
indian lands
Indian man who received a vision of God where he saw the
future of his people. The message was to treat everybody
nicely and to participate in the ghost dance. The vision says
that if indians do these things, then the ancestors will rise,
the drought will end, the whites will disappear, and the
Wovoka (1889) buffalo will come back.
indians would dance and fast until exhaustion caused them
to have visions. the ghost dance was a practice that scared
Ghost dance americans. the dance and similar practices were banned.
after Sitting Bull died, many indians were escorted in
response to the ghost dances to Wounded Knee Creek
wounded knee 1890 where hundreds of them died.
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Frederick Jackson Turner said that the frontier was over in
1893. He said that the frontier was a great era and was
Frontier Thesis 1893 where the american democracy was born.
an economic system that came about in the 19th century.
means of production, idea of competing businesses,
Capitalism consumers regulate market
(looks gold but isn't actually gold/valuable) Period of
massive industrial change that ushers in a new way of how
things are made. Intense concentrated wealth was a result
of this change. economy able to move things and produce
the Gilded Age 1870-1900 things quickly and cheaply.
another way of saying "rationalizing something"
mass producing, maximum efficiency, interchangeable
scientific management employees
people who were able to rise to the top of the industries
Robber Barons using questionable methods
the original Robber Baron. famous for undercutting prices,
finessing. basically a sly businessman who became very
rich. most hated man in America in his time. 2/3 of the
Jay Gould railroads were controlled by 2 companies.
father was a snake oil salesman. lived in cleveland. oil was
discovered there, and rockefeller founded the Standard Oil
company, which became extremely successful. he made a
deal with the railroads allowing him to control the price of
John D. Rockefeller oil and buy out his competing companies.
vertical integration purchasing companies at all levels of production
a combination of all Rockefeller's businesses (vertical
Standard Oil Trust integration and centralizing power)
personal secretary to a railroad superintendent, which leads
him to success. he meets a man with a new way of making
Andrew Carnegie steel, which he brings to america. believed in innovation
and cutting costs.
Ended Reconstruction. In exchange for a republican
president being elected, congress offered to end
The compromise of 1877 reconstruction.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been
13th amendment duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any
place subject to their jurisdiction
The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal
protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to
14th amendment issues related to former slaves following the American
Civil War.
The right of citizens...to vote shall not be denied or
abridged...on account of race, color, or previous condition
15th amendment of servitude.
the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by
providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange,
homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to
Homestead act complete five years of continuous residence before
receiving ownership of the land.
The Mormons were persecuted and moved to Utah to
Church of Latter Day Saints settle. Utah became a mormon influenced state.
Dominant group in the northern part of the West. Native
Americans thought that Americans would be just passing
through but the homestead act changed that. 1862 War
broke out between minnesota settlers and the sioux. 1874
Sioux gold is found in a sioux reservation.
A group of indians led by Black Kettle were slaughtered en
route to sign a treaty. John Chimington led the attack. over
200 indians died, and it spurred the creation of the Indian
Sand creek massacre Peace Commission.
, AMH 2020 Exam Verified Questions 2025
called for a moral and christian approach when dealing
with Indians. Handed over Indian reservations to the
Indian Peace Commission churches in order to persuade Indians into christianity and
into our culture
battle over gold. The sioux are completely wiped out when
they had to conflict over not wanting to give up their land.
Little Big Horn
Indians were forced at gunpoint to leave their home to go
to the bosque reservation. The land was not useful and it
The Long Walk (1863-1866) led to starving people and financial disaster.
"pen" for the indians so the americans could use their land.
meant to try to change indians to be more American-like
Reservations
Railroads had a huge impact on the country with the
Transcontinental Railroad movement of people and goods. shortens country and
1869 expands cities.
adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of
the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and
Dawes Act 1887 divide it into allotments for individual Indians. breaks up
indian lands
Indian man who received a vision of God where he saw the
future of his people. The message was to treat everybody
nicely and to participate in the ghost dance. The vision says
that if indians do these things, then the ancestors will rise,
the drought will end, the whites will disappear, and the
Wovoka (1889) buffalo will come back.
indians would dance and fast until exhaustion caused them
to have visions. the ghost dance was a practice that scared
Ghost dance americans. the dance and similar practices were banned.
after Sitting Bull died, many indians were escorted in
response to the ghost dances to Wounded Knee Creek
wounded knee 1890 where hundreds of them died.
, AMH 2020 Exam Verified Questions 2025
Frederick Jackson Turner said that the frontier was over in
1893. He said that the frontier was a great era and was
Frontier Thesis 1893 where the american democracy was born.
an economic system that came about in the 19th century.
means of production, idea of competing businesses,
Capitalism consumers regulate market
(looks gold but isn't actually gold/valuable) Period of
massive industrial change that ushers in a new way of how
things are made. Intense concentrated wealth was a result
of this change. economy able to move things and produce
the Gilded Age 1870-1900 things quickly and cheaply.
another way of saying "rationalizing something"
mass producing, maximum efficiency, interchangeable
scientific management employees
people who were able to rise to the top of the industries
Robber Barons using questionable methods
the original Robber Baron. famous for undercutting prices,
finessing. basically a sly businessman who became very
rich. most hated man in America in his time. 2/3 of the
Jay Gould railroads were controlled by 2 companies.
father was a snake oil salesman. lived in cleveland. oil was
discovered there, and rockefeller founded the Standard Oil
company, which became extremely successful. he made a
deal with the railroads allowing him to control the price of
John D. Rockefeller oil and buy out his competing companies.
vertical integration purchasing companies at all levels of production
a combination of all Rockefeller's businesses (vertical
Standard Oil Trust integration and centralizing power)
personal secretary to a railroad superintendent, which leads
him to success. he meets a man with a new way of making
Andrew Carnegie steel, which he brings to america. believed in innovation
and cutting costs.
