2006-01-31

History Review

OMG... I just got my first test review. It has 75 questions and two essays!! Ack! I'm not so worried about the essays because I'm good at those and they are take home (yay!)! but I'm struggling with the test review and finding that my interest in this class has been fooling me into thinking that I actually might know what we're talking about! LOL Here are the questions that will comprise the entire test. Questions will be worded differently for the test. I've already filled in the ones that I know. Notice how FEW of those there are! haha

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Segment 1 Review Open
1. T/F: After the Civil War people in the South simply wanted to forget the war.
2. T/F: To most southerners the Civil War had been a �noble� undertaking.
3. Freedmen�s bureau was the federal department charged with aiding ex-slaves in acquiring land and jobs.
4. _____________ was successful in reducing black illiteracy by almost 20% in less than two decades.
5. Sherman�s Field Order No. 15 was based on land confiscation and redistribution.
6. T/F: Churches provided former slaves with an opportunity to develop self-government skills.
7. Presidential refusal to sign legislation before congress recesses is called a pocket veto.
8. The most famous application of the feature in #7 above was Lincoln�s reaction to the Wade-Davis bill.
9. T/F: Radical republicans rejected Lincoln�s 2nd inaugural phrase, with malice towards none and charity for all?
10. T/F: Radical Republicans wanted to treat the South as conquered territory?
11. T/F: The presidential reconstruction plan included a limited land confiscation proposal.
12. T/F: Radical congressional republicans became infuriated when the moderates introduced a universal suffrage proposal.
13. Congress overrode President Johnson�s veto of the 1866 ____________ bill.
14. T/F: The 14th amendment guaranteed that all males had the right to vote.
15. T/F: The radical republican reconstruction plan included strengthening the Republican Party in the south.
16. T/F: The Tenure of Office Act was an early version of what we now call term limits?
17. T/F: The 15th amendment guaranteed that all males had the right to vote.
18. Northerners who came south after the war were commonly referred to as _______________.
19. Southern sympathizers living in the north were referred to as ________.
20. T/F: Southern democrats preferred post-war political strategy centered on creating an alliance with moderate republicans.
21. The __________ portrayed themselves as �saviors� of the south from republican rule.
22. In 1876 the _________ party traded the presidency for local control in the _________.
23. The 1876 election marked the end of ______________.
24. T/F: Sharecropping was limited to former slaves.
25. T/F: The New South represented tremendous opportunities for rural whites and former slaves.
26. T/F: The term �Solid South� refers to its dependence on cotton.
27. T/F: With all of it�s weaknesses the New South still placed a premium on education.
28. T/F: After the civil war southern farmers immediately began to diversify their crop options.
29. One who rented land from wealthy landowners was called a ___________.
30. Redeemer Democrats represented the interests of ________________.
31. T/F: The leaders of the Grange usually came from the other industries.
32. Storing cotton in warehouses to increase prices was part of the ___________ plan.
33. T/F: Democrats appealed to the concept of white �supremacy� to break the alliance between black and white populists.
34. The ________ movement believed that consumption of alcohol was sinful.
35. T/F: Lynching, which peaked in the 1860�s, decreased dramatically until the early 1900�s.
36. The ______________ case legalized institutional segregation in the South.
37. The body of laws enacted as a result of #34 above was known as __________ laws.
38. __________ clauses, __________ tests, and _______ taxes were all used to deter black men from voting.
39. The movie ___________ romanticized the Ku Klux Klan.
40. Booker T. Washington favored ________ education as a means for blacks to gain economic independence.
41. In the __________ Compromise Washington urged blacks to accommodate themselves temporarily to segregation.
42. The term _________ refers to a time when the worship of wealth and sharp social divisions existed.
43. T/F: The years between 1870 and 1900 was a period when American technology was at its most moribund state.
44. Thomas Edison built his first electrical power plant in ______________.
45. T/F: Before the Industrial boom of the late 1800�s most �labor� was performed by skilled craftsmen and artisans.
46. Swift Meat Packing was an example of ________ integration.
47. Investment banker _________ financed much of John D. Rockefeller�s industrial efforts.
48. ________ integration involved buying up the competition.
49. ___________ is associated with automated cigarette manufacturing.
50. ___________ developed a soft drink called Coca-Cola.
51. T/F: While women and children received less pay during the period 1870 - 1900 their working conditions continued to improve.
52. T/F: The most common professions open to women in the early 1900�s was as __________ workers and as __________.
53. T/F: In the early 1900�s most Americans had gracefully accepted the idea of women in the workforce.
54. The ________ movement was begun to provide educational and social services to the working poor.
55. T/F: Andrew Carnegie believed that the affluent should return some of their wealth to working class communities.
56. A believer in Social Darwinism believed that the laws of nature also applied to the business world.
57. The Great Uprising of 1877 was against the ________ industry.
58. Membership in the Knights of Labor labor organization was open to all workers.
59. T/F: The AFL is the longest surviving labor organization in America.
60. The Haymarket riot happened in 1886.
61. The first anti-immigration legislation was directed towards the __________.
62. T/F: Between 1880 -1910 English Protestants comprised approximately 45% of all immigrants to the U.S.
63. T/F: Nativists opposed all immigrants.
64. A believer in _________ racism would have opposed interracial marriages.
65. T/F: The term �Great Migration� refers to the westward movement of the pioneers.
66. T/F: The portrayal of blacks in films and on stage helped to perpetuate negative stereotypes.
67. Baseball was the sport favored by the middle class at the turn of the century.
68. Elizabeth Cady Stanton objected to the 15th amendment fearing it would create an aristocracy of sex?
69. Susan B. Anthony gathered 400,000 signatures in support of the 13th amendment outlawing slavery.
70. Booker T. Washington created the Tuskegee Institute.
71. DuBois favored conventional education and black pride as essential to achieving social equality for blacks.
72. T. Dreiser was the author of Sister Carrie.
73. E. Debs was the socialist leader who led the Pullman Sleeping Car strike.
74. H. C. Frick was Andrew Carnegie�s �hatchet man.�
75. Samuel Gompers led the AFL to become the nations largest labor organization.

I have to watch the State of the Union tonight. Well I don't HAVE to, but I get extra credit if I do and LORD knows I need all the help I can get!! LOL My head is spinning and hurting from information overload. I hope I get the hang of this soon. I'm already having test anxiety... and paper writing anxiety... and opinion expressing anxiety... and getting out of bed to go to work for CPS anxiety! LOL I'd better go have some therapy. See ya later!

kellbelle at 4:27 p.m.

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