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US History Civil War- WWI
Civil War & Reconstruction
• What reformer believed that African Americans could gain
civil rights first by achieving good skills and reputations?
Booker T. Washington
• What issue of slavery did the Kansas-Nebraska act entail?
The expansion of slavery into new territories
• What was the main accomplishment of the Freedman’s
Bureau?
Education and aid for freed slaves
• Which Compromise ended Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
• Because of the Compromise of 1877, what did the
Republicans agree to do in regards to troops?
Agreed to remove them from the South
Civil War & Reconstruction
• What caused the first southern states to secede from
the Union?
President Lincoln is elected
• What is habeas corpus?
Can’t be held in jail without being accused of a crime
• Why did Lincoln suspend the writ of habeas corpus?
Arrest and hold Confederate sympathizers living in the
Union
• What was the result of the Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
court case?
Approving racial segregation in public facilities
Civil War & Reconstruction
• Why did the US draft laws of 1863 anger the poor, working
class?
Because people could pay $300 to have someone replace
them and the poor did not have that kind of money
• What is sharecropping?
• system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to
use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on
the land
• How did it continue the cycle of oppression of newly freed
slaves?
• It made them economically dependent on farmers since the
majority, if not all, of their wages went back to the
landowners; it closely resembled slavery
Civil War & Reconstruction
• What is the main reason why there was such a high
mortality rate during the Civil War?
• New, deadlier technology was too much for the older
war tactics armies were using
• Which law allowed for FL to join the Union as a
slave state while Iowa joined as a free state in
1845?
• The Missouri Compromise
• Why did violence erupt in “Bleeding Kansas”?
• The passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Civil War & Reconstruction
• For which amendment did the Emancipation
Proclamation lay the foundation for?
• 13th amendment (ended slavery)
• Did the Emancipation Proclamation end slavery?
• NO!!!
• Who issued it? Congress or President Lincoln?
• Lincoln since he was commander-in-chief
• How did Southern states try to ease the effects of Radical
Reconstruction?
enacting Jim Crow laws
Civil War & Reconstruction
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Name what each of the following Amendments did.
13th
Ended slavery
14th
Allowed for equal rights for all men
15th
Allowed for all men to vote
What were the end results of the Compromise of 1877?
Hayes elected president & withdrawal of troops from the
South to end Reconstruction
Civil War & Reconstruction
• This excerpt was written in the South in 1866. (1)
Interpret what it means. (2) Would this come from
someone who supports equal rights or not?
“We should be satisfied to compel them to engage in
coarse, common manual labor, and to punish them for
dereliction of duty or non-fulfillment of their contracts
with such severity, as to make them useful, productive
laborers.”
**This would come from someone who supported the
passage of Black Codes
Civil War & Reconstruction
• What was a carpetbagger?
A northern business person who came to the South and
opened up business
• How were they viewed by the South?
Negatively because the South felt like they exploited
opportunities that could have benefited the South
In regards to big government, what was the result of the
Civil War?
It strengthened the power of the federal government.
Which two key victories in the summer of 1863 put the
Union in control of the Civil War?
Gettysburg & Vicksburg
Civil War & Reconstruction
• What were some of the provisions of the
Reconstruction Act of 1867?
South divided into military districts
South had to pass 14th Amendment
South had to give African Americans right to vote.
Industrialization
• What is Social Darwinism?
• Belief that wealth is the measure of one’s inherent
value and those that had it were most “fit”
• What are some of the ideas did Social Darwinism
supported?
• Accumulation of wealth
• Hard work
• Industrialization
• People become rich because that is the law of nature
and the law of God
Industrialization
• What is Samuel Gompers best known for?
• He was a leader in the labor union movement
• Why were time zones invented?
• To accommodate the schedules of railroad
companies and train travelers
• Why did business tycoons establish trusts during the
late 1800s?
To reduce competition
• What law outlawed the formation of trusts that
interfered with free trade?
The Sherman Antitrust Act
Industrialization
• What was the main goal of the ICC (Interstate Commerce Act)?
• To decrease excessive railroad shipping rates
• Interpret this quote: “Where trade unions are most firmly
organized, there are the rights of the people most
respected.”
Who would have said this? Pro-union? A business tycoon?
• What types of industries did the following business tycoons
own?
Andrew Carnegie
steel
John D. Rockefeller
Oil
Gould
railroad
Industrialization
• What is the Bessemer process?
• A process for purifying iron which made steel;
allowed for mass production of steel (easier and
cheaper)
• Why was the Bessemer process so important?
• Without it, skyscrapers, buildings and suspension
bridges could not be made as quickly as they were
made
• Why were business trusts declared illegal in the late
1800s?
Eliminated healthy competition by forming monopolies
Immigration
• What was the name of the island where Asian immigrants
were processed? Where was it located?
• Angel Island; San Francisco
• What was the purpose of Americanization?
• To assimilate people of various cultures into one dominant
culture
Immigration
• Name pull factors
Jobs, religious freedom, better living conditions
• Name push factors
Unemployment, religious persecution, famine, civil
war
Anarchist: Someone who does not believe in having
any government and they blame corruption on
government systems.
The Progressive Era
• What was the main purpose of the progressive
movement?
correct the economic and social abuses of America’s
industrial society, especially the abuse on the poor
• After the Spanish-American War, what happened to
Puerto Rico?
It became a possession of the U.S.
• What is the graduate income tax?
A system where people who make more, pay more taxes
What was a goal of the Farmers’ Alliance?
Regulate railroad shipping rates
The Progressive Era
• What were the provisions of the Homestead Act?
Had to be US citizen
Had to live on and cultivate the land for five or more years
160 acres for free
• How is this poster
different from what the
Homestead Act offers?
Here, one has to pay for the
land.
The Progressive Era
• How did Yellow Journalism contribute to the start of
the Spanish-American War?
It started public outcry over conditions in Cuba
• What role did journalists play in the Spanish-American
War?
Journalists exaggerated events to build support for the
war, giving the president and Congress little chance to
resolve the conflict peacefully
What are ways that big companies try to eliminate
competition?
Monopolies; pools; vertical integration; horizontal
integration; trusts
The Progressive Era
• What were the provisions of the Gentlemen’s agreement
between President Theodore Roosevelt and Japan?
It allowed Japanese children to attend public schools with
whites in California while Japan agreed to limit emigration to
the U.S.
• What was Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle about?
The disgusting and dangerous working conditions in a meat
packing plant in Chicago
• What law did it most likely lead to?
Meat Inspection Act
• What was Jane Addams’ Hull House?
A settlement house
Imperialism
• Are these ideas for or against imperialism? Explain.
No government without consent of the governed
High cost of defending territories outside the United
States
United States tradition of noninvolvement
World War I
• After WWI, the Great Migration occurred. What
was the main motivation for people to migrate to the
North from the rural South?
Increased job opportunities in the North
Which movement benefited most from its members’
contributions to the war effort during WWI?
Women’s suffrage
What was the main purpose of the convoy system during
WWI?
To protect merchant ships as they took supplies to
European nations at war
World War I
• What was the purpose of the Palmer Raids?
to identify and punish suspected communists
• After World War I, the United States Senate
refused to approve the Treaty of Versailles. What
was the Senate’s motivation for not approving it?
They did not want a League of Nations because they
wanted to return to a policy of isolationism
Which of Wilson’s Fourteen Points was accepted by
the rest of the “Big Four”?
The creation of the League of Nations.
World War I
• “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall
any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws.”
• This is a passage from the 14th amendment. Congress
passed this in response to
• (1) violence against emancipated of slaves
• (2) the emergence of white resistance to the civil rights
movement
• (3) the attempts of Democrats to limit the voting right of
African Americans OR
• (4) the passage of Black Codes throughout the South
Analyze this cartoon. What policy
does it represent?
Interpret and describe the purpose
of these posters
Interpret and describe the purpose
of this poster
Which consumer behavior does this
advertisement illustrate?