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Test 1 study Guide Reconstruction to Empire and Expansion | HIST 102, Exams of World History

Clovis Community CollegeWorld History
Prof. Michael L. Powers

Material Type: Exam; Professor: Powers; Class: Survey of American History Since 1865; Subject: History; University: Clovis Community College; Term: Unknown 1989;

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Test I Study Guide
Reconstruction to Empire & Expansion
Chapter 22: Reconstruction
1. What was the state of the South’s postwar economy?
2. What did many white Southerners believe at the end of the
Civil War?
3. Give four meanings of emancipation for southern blacks.
4. What were three actions of Southern blacks in 1865?
pp. 480-481
5. What was the greatest achievement of the Freedmen’s
Bureau?
6. How did the white South view the Freedmen’s Bureau?
7. Why was Andrew Johnson named Lincoln's second-term vice
president?
8. What reputation did Andrew Johnson develop as a politician?
9. What did the controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill
and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union
demonstrate?
10. What was the aim of President Johnson's plan for
Reconstruction? p. 486
11. What was the main purpose of the Black Codes?
12. What were four elements of the Black Codes?
13. What did the Black Codes seem to indicate to many
Northerners?
14. What was one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern
states’ restoration to the Union to congressional Republicans?
15. What incident caused the clash between Congress and
President Johnson to explode into the open?
16. What did the Fourteenth Amendmen guarantee?
17. What was the basis of the battle between Congress and
President Johnson?
18. On what did both moderate and radical Republicans agree?
19. Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to do what?
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Chapter 22: Reconstruction

  1. What was the state of the South’s postwar economy?
  2. What did many white Southerners believe at the end of the Civil War?
  3. Give four meanings of emancipation for southern blacks.
  4. What were three actions of Southern blacks in 1865? pp. 480-
  5. What was the greatest achievement of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
  6. How did the white South view the Freedmen’s Bureau?
  7. Why was Andrew Johnson named Lincoln's second-term vice president?
  8. What reputation did Andrew Johnson develop as a politician?
  9. What did the controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrate?
  10. What was the aim of President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction? p. 486
  11. What was the main purpose of the Black Codes?
  12. What were four elements of the Black Codes?
  13. What did the Black Codes seem to indicate to many Northerners?
  14. What was one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states’ restoration to the Union to congressional Republicans?
  15. What incident caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open?
  16. What did the Fourteenth Amendmen guarantee?
  17. What was the basis of the battle between Congress and President Johnson?
  18. On what did both moderate and radical Republicans agree?
  19. Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to do what?
  1. During Reconstruction, African American women assumed what four new political role?
  2. What was a positive action taken by Radical Reconstruction state governments?
  3. What was a primary motive for the formation of the KKK?
  4. Even with the Force Acts and the Union Army helping to suppress the KKK, what central goal did the Ku Klux Klan achieve?
  5. What were the four reasons why the Senate voted to acquit President Johnson?
  6. Reconstruction might have been more successful if what radical program had been carried out? pp. 498-
  7. What were four extended controversies of Reconstruction?
  8. Give four reasons why Congress objected to the readmission of Southern states to the Union under Johnson's plan. pp. 486-
  9. List three characteristics of most radical Reconstruction regimes in the South. pp. 492-
  10. What were three legacies of the Reconstruction effort?

Chapter 23: Politics in the Gilded Age

  1. What was the result of the Civil War in regard to the moral stature of the United States Republic?
  2. What were political candidates who campaigned by “waving the bloody shirt” trying to accomplish?
  3. What did the Credit Mobilier scandal involve?
  4. What was one cause of the panic that broke in 1873?
  5. What did debtors suggest as a solution to the panic or depression of 1873?
  6. What were the political stances of the Democrats and Republicans during the Gilded Age?
  1. What largely shaped the political developments of the 1890s?
  2. In the late 19th century the Republican party was associated with what four cultural values? pp. 509-
  3. In the late 19th century the Democratic party could count on the support of what four groups? pp. 509-

Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age

  1. During the Gilded Age, most of the railroad barons built their railroads with what aid?
  2. What was the greatest single factor that helped to spur the industrialization of the post-Civil War years?
  3. Why did the United States change to standard time zones?
  4. Why did early railroad owners form “pools”?
  5. What was one of the most significant aspects of the Interstate Commerce Act?
  6. What was the role of the plentiful supply of unskilled labor in the U.S. after the Civil War?
  7. What was one method by which post-Civil War business leaders increased their profits?
  8. What caused the oil industry to become a huge business?
  9. What four tactics did John D. Rockefeller use to achieve success in the oil industry?
  10. Why did the courts ingenuously interpret the Fourteenth Amendment to help the corporations?
  11. What amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by state governments?
  12. What was the economic status of the South during the age of industrialization?
  1. What was one of the greatest changes that industrialization brought about in the lives of workers?
  2. Despite generally rising wages in the late 19th century, industrial workers were extremely vulnerable to what four things?
  3. Most women workers in the 1890s worked for what reason?
  4. How did the Knights of Labor believe that republican traditions and institutions could be preserved from corrup monopolies?
  5. What had organized labor achieved by 1900?
  6. Why has class-based protest never been a powerful force in the United States?
  7. Give four important factors in post-Civil War industrial expansion. p. 557
  8. List four factors promoting the growth of manufacturing in post-Civil War America. pp. 538-
  9. The Knights of Labor were weakened by what two things? pp. 552-

Chapter 25: America Moves to the City

  1. What was the major factor in drawing country people into the big cities?
  2. What was one early symbol of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America?
  3. Give four negative results of urbanization and industrialization? pp. 559-
  4. How were the New Immigrants who came to the U.S. after 1880 different?
  5. Most New Immigrants tried to do what once they reached America? p. 566
  6. How did most liberal Protestants practice their faith as a result of the new urban environment? p. 568, 572
  1. In the late 19th century, orthodox Protestant churches were being challenged by what three things? p. 572-

Chapter 26: The Great Wes and Agricultural Revolution

  1. In post-Civil War America, when did Indians surrender their lands?
  2. Give four reasons why Indians battled whites.
  3. What finally forced the Plains Indians to surrender?
  4. How were the buffalo nearly exterminated?
  5. Humanitarians, who wanted to treat the Indians kindly, had what attitude toward their culture?
  6. Give four provisions of the Dawes Act that attempted to assimilate Indians into American society.
  7. What vital role did the mining frontier play?
  8. Bitter conflict intensified between whites and Indians as a result of what? 9 What was one glaring problem with the Homestead Act in the Great Plains?
  9. What was a major problem faced by settlers on the Great Plains in the 1870s?
  10. Give four statements that provide valid support for the theory that the frontier served as a “safety valve” for American social discontent and economic conflict.
  11. What was the root cause of the American farmers’ problem after 1880?
  12. Farmers in the late nineteenth century believed that their difficulties stemmed primarily from what?
  13. Why were farmers slow to organize and promote their interest?
  14. What was the original purpose of the Grange?
  1. Why was the Farmers’ Alliance formed?
  2. Why did large numbers of southern white farmers refuse to desert the Democratic Party and support the Populist Party during the 1892 presidential election?
  3. Labor unions, Populists, and debtors saw in the brutal Pullman episode the proof of what?
  4. The Pullman strike created what first? p. 618
  5. The Depression of the 1890s and episodes like the Pullman Strike made the election of 1896 shape up as a battle between what groups?
  6. What was the primary reason why William Jennings Bryan gained the presidential nomination of the Democratic party?
  7. What became the major issue in the election of 1896?
  8. What was the strongest ally of Mark Hanna and the Republicans in the 1896 presidential election?
  9. The 1896 presidential election marked the last time for what phenomenon?
  10. What long period did the 1896 victory of William McKinley begin?
  11. What four factors led to the decline of the long drive and the cattle boom? pp. 605-
  12. What were four elements of the Populists’ political program? pp. 616

Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion

  1. Why did the Reverend Josiah Strong advocate American expansion in his book Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis?
  2. What was a major factor in the shift in American foreign policy toward imperialism in the late nineteenth century?
  3. What did Alfred Thayer Mahan argue?
  4. What was one reason that the British submitted their border dispute with Venezuela to arbitration?
  1. What was TR’s role in the Panamanian Revolution?
  2. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was specifically designed for what purpose?
  3. The United States’ frequent intervention in the affairs of Latin American countries in the early twentieth century had what legacy?
  4. What were the provisions of the “Gentlemen’s Agreement” that Teddy Roosevelt worked out with the Japanese government?