Practice Test: Winter History Final

Matching skip

Short Answer skip

1. 15th Amendment
   
2. Muckrakers
   
3. Interlocking Directorates
   
4. Radical Republicans
   
5. Upton Sinclair/The Jungle
   

Multiple Choice skip

1. 14th Amendment
   1. Unsuccessful attempt to avoid succession proposed by Sentator John Crittenden. Extend 36 30' line.
   2. Free silver, 8-hr. work day, cut immigration, government utilities, Omaha Platform
   3. Informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election. Through it, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded presidency over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden with the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops that were propping up Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.
   4. New definition of citizenship, anyone born in the USA
   5. Someone who attempts to expose political corruption
2. Robert E. Lee
   1. Jane Addams and her Settlement homes aimed to give newly immigrated families places to stay and jobs
   2. This battle was critical for control of the Mississippi. The union army under Ulysses S. Grant gained control of the river by capturing this stronghold.
   3. A Southern general in the civil war. Led the battle at Gettysburg, thinking that an attack on the north would lower the moral of the north. He was unsuccessful. Lee eventually surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865, and thus ended the war.
   4. A series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June 1864, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Union armies, directed the actions of the Army of the Potomac, against Robert E. Lee. Although Grant suffered severe losses during the campaign, it was a strategic Union victory, maneuvering Lee into a siege at Petersburg, Virginia in just over eight weeks.
   5. Businesses have the right to refuse service based on race
3. Ford Theater
   1. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wikes Booth in the Ford Thearer in 1865
   2. Nine months of trench warfare in which Union forces commanded assaulted Petersburg unsuccessfully and then constructed trench lines that eventually extended over 30 miles around the eastern and southern outskirts of the city. Petersburg was crucial to the supply of Lee’s army and the Confederate capital of Richmond Lee finally yielded to the overwhelming pressure.
   3. This battle was critical for control of the Mississippi. The union army under Ulysses S. Grant gained control of the river by capturing this stronghold.
   4. Cross of gold, famed orator and politician who was the voice of the farmer in distress
   5. The basic difference between the northern warfare and the southern warfare is that the north was on the offensive and the south was on the defensive. The northern strategy took advantage of southern weakness. Because the south had a weak central government, and relied on overseas demand for cotton, the north attempted to isolate sections of the south. By attacking from different directions, and using the anaconda plan split the south into pieces, the north attempted to halt communication and trade in most of the south.
4. Black Codes
   1. Gilded Age refers to the major growth in population in the United States and extravagant displays of wealth and excess of America's upper-class during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era, in the late 19th century
   2. In response to the 13th,14th and 15th amendment, some southern states created newlaws that discriminated against slaves
   3. History of Standard Oil, bashes the corruption of oil companies
   4. New definition of citizenship, anyone born in the USA
   5. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wikes Booth in the Ford Thearer in 1865
5. Wilderness Campaign
   1. Universal sufferage
   2. A series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June 1864, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Union armies, directed the actions of the Army of the Potomac, against Robert E. Lee. Although Grant suffered severe losses during the campaign, it was a strategic Union victory, maneuvering Lee into a siege at Petersburg, Virginia in just over eight weeks.
   3. States rights were a contentious subject leading to the civil war. The basic question was how much authority did states have? Could they declare federal laws null and void? Did they have the right to secede?
   4. Nez Pierce leader, ran away from USA into Canada
   5. The first shots of the civil war were fired at fort Sumter in south Carolina. Confederates opened fire on the fort in 1861, and the fort surrendered. Although this was seen as a military victory for the south, it was a political success for Lincoln. Because the south initiated the fighting, Lincoln could fight without the guilt of initiating the war.

True or False skip

1. Jim Crow Laws
   Reinforced Plessy vs. Ferguson

   True   False

2. Grangers
   Intent was to bring farmers together to discuss agricultural styles, in an attempt to correct widespread costly and inefficient meathods

   True   False

3. Antietam
   A Southern general in the civil war. Led the battle at Gettysburg, thinking that an attack on the north would lower the moral of the north. He was unsuccessful. Lee eventually surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865, and thus ended the war.

   True   False

4. John Wilkes Booth
   Assassinated Lincoln in 1865 at Ford Theater

   True   False

5. Emancipation Proclamation
   Railroads, steel, finance. Business powerhouse.

   True   False