Us history EOC review florida Exam
Questions and Answers
Anaconda plan - ANSWER-Apr 19, 1861
Northern plan to blockade southern ports, seize the Mississippi, divide the confederacy
and capture richmond.
Ku Klux Klan - ANSWER-1866
-Nativist
-Terrorist group
-Challenged the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction.
13th amendment - ANSWER--Passed by Congress January 31, 1865, and ratified
December 6, 1865
-Freed the slaves
14th amendment - ANSWER--Proposed on June 13, 1866 and ratified on July 9, 1868
-Gave African Americans citizenship
15th amendment - ANSWER--Proposed on February 26, 1869, and ratified on February
3, 1870
-Gave African American males the right to vote
Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) - ANSWER-It legalized segregation (separate but
equal) in America until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954
Populist party - ANSWER--Organized in St. Louis in 1892
-Class of gold speach
-Known as the people's party
-This political party formed in 1891 to advocate for a larger money supply
-(coinage of "Free silver"), and government ownership of railroads
19th century inventions - ANSWER--Took place during the 1800s
-Elevators (James Otis)
-Bessemer process (Carnegie)
-Skyscrapers
Mass transit
Lightbulb - Edison
-Telephone (Bell)
-Railroad (Vanderbilt, Rockerfeller, Carnegie)
-Automobile/Assembly line (Henry Ford)
, Impacts of Industrialization - ANSWER--In the mid 1800s
-Time zones
-Mass Production
-Farmers move to cities to work in factories
-Pollution
-Rise of big business monopolies
-Beginning of the labor movement
Sherman Anti-trust act - ANSWER--Passed by Congress in 1890
-Example of government regulation
-Break up monopolies, failed, used against labor unions
Child labor practices - ANSWER--Textile mills
-Coal mines
-Paid less than adults
-1 out of 5 worked
-Deprived of education and nutrition
Nativists - ANSWER--A sociopolitical policy, especially in the United States in the 1800s
-Ex. Kkk
-A person who favors native born Americans over immigrants
-Portrayed Hostility, hatred, and distrust of new immigrants
*Chinese Exclusion Act - ANSWER--A 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of
chinese laborers
-Was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882
Gentlemen's agreement (1907) - ANSWER-Law limiting how many japan immigrants
were a loud
Gilded Age - ANSWER--Post Reconstruction era characterized by a facade of
prosperity
-Satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding
-Mark Twain came up with the term
Gilded - ANSWER--Gold on top but cheap in the middle
-1870s to about 1900
Upton Sinclair - ANSWER--Wrote: The Jungle (1906), meat packing
-A muckraker
-A vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory
Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois - ANSWER--Two great leaders of the black
community in the late 19th and 20th century
-Booker T Washington
Questions and Answers
Anaconda plan - ANSWER-Apr 19, 1861
Northern plan to blockade southern ports, seize the Mississippi, divide the confederacy
and capture richmond.
Ku Klux Klan - ANSWER-1866
-Nativist
-Terrorist group
-Challenged the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction.
13th amendment - ANSWER--Passed by Congress January 31, 1865, and ratified
December 6, 1865
-Freed the slaves
14th amendment - ANSWER--Proposed on June 13, 1866 and ratified on July 9, 1868
-Gave African Americans citizenship
15th amendment - ANSWER--Proposed on February 26, 1869, and ratified on February
3, 1870
-Gave African American males the right to vote
Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) - ANSWER-It legalized segregation (separate but
equal) in America until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954
Populist party - ANSWER--Organized in St. Louis in 1892
-Class of gold speach
-Known as the people's party
-This political party formed in 1891 to advocate for a larger money supply
-(coinage of "Free silver"), and government ownership of railroads
19th century inventions - ANSWER--Took place during the 1800s
-Elevators (James Otis)
-Bessemer process (Carnegie)
-Skyscrapers
Mass transit
Lightbulb - Edison
-Telephone (Bell)
-Railroad (Vanderbilt, Rockerfeller, Carnegie)
-Automobile/Assembly line (Henry Ford)
, Impacts of Industrialization - ANSWER--In the mid 1800s
-Time zones
-Mass Production
-Farmers move to cities to work in factories
-Pollution
-Rise of big business monopolies
-Beginning of the labor movement
Sherman Anti-trust act - ANSWER--Passed by Congress in 1890
-Example of government regulation
-Break up monopolies, failed, used against labor unions
Child labor practices - ANSWER--Textile mills
-Coal mines
-Paid less than adults
-1 out of 5 worked
-Deprived of education and nutrition
Nativists - ANSWER--A sociopolitical policy, especially in the United States in the 1800s
-Ex. Kkk
-A person who favors native born Americans over immigrants
-Portrayed Hostility, hatred, and distrust of new immigrants
*Chinese Exclusion Act - ANSWER--A 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of
chinese laborers
-Was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882
Gentlemen's agreement (1907) - ANSWER-Law limiting how many japan immigrants
were a loud
Gilded Age - ANSWER--Post Reconstruction era characterized by a facade of
prosperity
-Satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding
-Mark Twain came up with the term
Gilded - ANSWER--Gold on top but cheap in the middle
-1870s to about 1900
Upton Sinclair - ANSWER--Wrote: The Jungle (1906), meat packing
-A muckraker
-A vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory
Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois - ANSWER--Two great leaders of the black
community in the late 19th and 20th century
-Booker T Washington
