FSU AMH 2020 - EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY
GRADED A+
Gilded Age, South and West: Ans✓✓✓Coin termed by Mark Twain;
period from 1870s - 1890s (post-reconstruction), businesses grew at a
rapid rate and many problems lied below perceived prosperity
- Prosperity covered the poverty and corruption of society.
- Industrialization (2nd phase began), Big businesses, organized labor.
- Urbanization, cities developed.
- Immigration, they moved to cities to take jobs and homes
Reconstruction Ans✓✓✓- Covers the complete history of the entire
country from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War and focuses on the
transformation of the Southern United States as directed by Congress,
with the reconstruction of state and society
- African Americans have the right to vote
- Ushers in a period where Republicans have majority control over the
government
- Federal troops had to go to polling places to ensure people were letting
African Americans vote
Redemption
(1870s) Ans✓✓✓White Democratic Southerners saw themselves as
redeeming the South by regaining power
,Redeemers Ans✓✓✓- The southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats,
the ultra-conservative, far right, pro-business faction in the Democratic
Party, who pursued a policy of Redemption, seeking to oust the Radical
Republican, far left coalition of freedmen, "carpetbaggers", and
"scalawags"
- They generally were led by the rich landowners, businessmen and
professionals, and dominated Southern politics in most areas from the
1870s to 1910
The New South Ans✓✓✓- The North had a much better industrial pace;
better transportation; so they wanted change
- Textiles - Small factories that produce clothing; gives women and
children an opportunity to work; however no child labor laws, small
wages, dangerous work
- Tobacco - Grew rapidly in VA and SC
Sharecropping Ans✓✓✓A system of agriculture in which a landowner
allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced
on their portion of land
Exodusters Ans✓✓✓African Americans who left the South after
Reconstruction, hoping to find a better life in the west
Homesteaders Ans✓✓✓Settlers who bought cheap land in the West
from the Federal Government under the terms of the Homestead Act
, Railroad Monopolies Ans✓✓✓- Railroads transported people and goods
faster; made several industries more profitable; downsides include the
fact that the railroad lines were difficult to build (building over
mountains); if a railroad went bankrupt, the town it was in most likely
went bankrupt
- Many of the railroad companies created a monopoly, setting low prices
that other companies couldn't match, and then increase the prices and
make a huge profit
Dawes Act Ans✓✓✓Authorized the President of the United States to
survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for
individual Indians
Monopolies Ans✓✓✓The exclusive possession or control of the supply
or trade in a commodity or service
Trusts Ans✓✓✓- An arrangement that gives one company the power to
manage another company without owning them outright
- Created to avoid the appearance of having a monopoly
Standard Oil Company Ans✓✓✓- Owned by John D. Rockefeller
- Controlled over 90% of the US oil industry
Carnegie Steel Company Ans✓✓✓- Owned by Andrew Carnegie
- The largest industrial company in the world during the late 1800s
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY
GRADED A+
Gilded Age, South and West: Ans✓✓✓Coin termed by Mark Twain;
period from 1870s - 1890s (post-reconstruction), businesses grew at a
rapid rate and many problems lied below perceived prosperity
- Prosperity covered the poverty and corruption of society.
- Industrialization (2nd phase began), Big businesses, organized labor.
- Urbanization, cities developed.
- Immigration, they moved to cities to take jobs and homes
Reconstruction Ans✓✓✓- Covers the complete history of the entire
country from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War and focuses on the
transformation of the Southern United States as directed by Congress,
with the reconstruction of state and society
- African Americans have the right to vote
- Ushers in a period where Republicans have majority control over the
government
- Federal troops had to go to polling places to ensure people were letting
African Americans vote
Redemption
(1870s) Ans✓✓✓White Democratic Southerners saw themselves as
redeeming the South by regaining power
,Redeemers Ans✓✓✓- The southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats,
the ultra-conservative, far right, pro-business faction in the Democratic
Party, who pursued a policy of Redemption, seeking to oust the Radical
Republican, far left coalition of freedmen, "carpetbaggers", and
"scalawags"
- They generally were led by the rich landowners, businessmen and
professionals, and dominated Southern politics in most areas from the
1870s to 1910
The New South Ans✓✓✓- The North had a much better industrial pace;
better transportation; so they wanted change
- Textiles - Small factories that produce clothing; gives women and
children an opportunity to work; however no child labor laws, small
wages, dangerous work
- Tobacco - Grew rapidly in VA and SC
Sharecropping Ans✓✓✓A system of agriculture in which a landowner
allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced
on their portion of land
Exodusters Ans✓✓✓African Americans who left the South after
Reconstruction, hoping to find a better life in the west
Homesteaders Ans✓✓✓Settlers who bought cheap land in the West
from the Federal Government under the terms of the Homestead Act
, Railroad Monopolies Ans✓✓✓- Railroads transported people and goods
faster; made several industries more profitable; downsides include the
fact that the railroad lines were difficult to build (building over
mountains); if a railroad went bankrupt, the town it was in most likely
went bankrupt
- Many of the railroad companies created a monopoly, setting low prices
that other companies couldn't match, and then increase the prices and
make a huge profit
Dawes Act Ans✓✓✓Authorized the President of the United States to
survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for
individual Indians
Monopolies Ans✓✓✓The exclusive possession or control of the supply
or trade in a commodity or service
Trusts Ans✓✓✓- An arrangement that gives one company the power to
manage another company without owning them outright
- Created to avoid the appearance of having a monopoly
Standard Oil Company Ans✓✓✓- Owned by John D. Rockefeller
- Controlled over 90% of the US oil industry
Carnegie Steel Company Ans✓✓✓- Owned by Andrew Carnegie
- The largest industrial company in the world during the late 1800s
