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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define PRIMARY SOURCE. | Primary sources are items are items created during the time period in which they occured. |
| How do PRIMARY and SECONDARY SOURCES differ? | Primary sources are considered more accurate because they happened at the time of the event and are less likely to others' interpretation in them. |
| Describe 2 examples of PRIMARY SOURCES from the Civil War. | Soldiers' diaries, letters from soliders, copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, copy of the Gettysburg address, any artifacts such as weapons, uniforms from the war |
| Describe 2 examples of SECONDARY SOURCES from the Industrial Revolution/Progressive period. | History textbook, encyclopedia, lecture by teacher, internet articles, TV specials such as documentaries |
| Why did slavery and the plantation system expand in the South and not the North> | The differences in economics, topography, climate,and lifestyle are among the reasons that there was not slavery in the North. |
| What were 2 major issues that divided the North and South prior to the Civil War? | a. Slavery b.Conflict between the 2 cultures; c. 2 different economic systems; d. states' rights |
| What was Lincoln's main goal regarding the Union? | To maintain the Union as a whole. No Southern secession. |
| Define SHARECROPPING. | Practice of a farmer who works land and for an owner who provides equipment and seed and receives a share of the crop. |
| When and where was sharecropping most commonly used? | In the South at the collapse of Reconstruction. Afro-Americans returned to farms as sharecroppers (tenant farmers). |
| What effect did the book UNCLE TOM's CABIN have on Northerners? | It aroused passionate antislavery sentiment in the North. |
| Identify 2 ECONOMICS advantages of the North in the Civil War. | a. Had an economy based on manufacturing textiles, mining, selling furs, and selling lumber. b. Use waterpower and coal to run factories to run factories to produce textiles, iron,ships, and export them. c. Favored high tariffs on imports. |
| Identify 2 MILITARY advantages of the South in the Civil War. | a.Skilled, effective military commanders b. United, highly-motivated soldiers; c.Fighting on home soil; d. Defending their own land |
| What impact did RADICAL REPUBLICAN RECONSTRUCTION PLAN have on the South? | Abolished state governments under Pres. Johnson's rule. Divided South into 5 districts. Federal troops in each district; Wanted to prevent Confederate leaders from returning to power; Wanted Republicans in power; Help Afro-Americans to gain equality (voti |
| Define MANIFEST DESTINY. | Idea in US that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean. |
| How was the concept of Manifest Destiny used to justify westward expansion? | The idea that expansion was good and right for the country. |
| What were the provisions of the HOMESTEAD ACT? | Made available 160 acres of land to any settler willing to farm it. Had to live on the land for 5 years. |
| What were the effects of the HOMESTEAD ACT on westward expansion? | Native Americans and Mexican lost their land. Native Americans were put on reservations and forced to adapt to our culture. |
| Explain the government's policies toward Native Americans during Westward Expansion. | DAWES SEVERALTY ACT of 1887: a. decreed parcels of land to tribes of Native Americans; b.unallocated (unused) land would be sold with proceeds put in trust; c.Native Americans didn't want parcels broken. Plan failed. |
| Describe the working conditions in early factories during the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. | Unsafe working conditions; long working hours; no breaks; working children received no education; no health insurance; poor lighting; women and children received poor wages; frequent accidents; no safety equipment; no workman's compensation |
| Explain 2 SOCIAL ISSUES during the late 19th century America that led to the Progressive movement. | Child labor; working conditions in factories; sanitation; women's right to vote; political corruption; homelessness; poverty; violence; disease; overcrowding; crime |
| What advantage did businessmen like Carnegie and J.D. Rockefeller create by forming trusts and monopolies? | By forming trusts and monopolies, they made more money that they later used for philanthropic purposes. They also used vertical and horizontal integration which combined companies and competing firms and compacted businesses and used less money. |
| How did business leaders use SOCIAL DARWINISM during the late 1800's? | Big business leaders used Social Darwinism to justify their efforts to overtake their competitors--the strong survive. The big business barons thought that they were the strongest and other businesses they took over were inferior. |
| Why was TEDDY ROOSEVELT nicknamed "trustbuster"? | He helped pass such legislation as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act to help break up monopolies and trusts. He took a group-Northern Securities to the Supreme Court and won and broke up the trust, thus many other trusts and monopolies we |
| What was the main PULL factor that drew both rural Americans and immigrants to cities at the end of the 19th century? | Factories and jobs. Better wages. |
| Define NATIVISM. | Hostility toward immigrants. |
| Why did Nativists view immigrants as a threat? | They took (or thought they took) jobs away from the people who already lived here in the US. |
| What was the primary reason that immigrants moved together? | Freedom and jobs. |
| Why were the "new" immigrants discriminated against by "old" immigrants? | European nations had made it easy for people to move to the US later. They were allowed to take their savings and let their skilled workers come. Earlier immigrants could not bring any savings with them and only unskilled workers could come. |
| How did INDUSTRIALIZATION and URBANIZATION lead to the PROGRESSIVE movement? | Immigration and people in rural areas moving to the cities; big business, trusts and monopolies all contributed to the Progressive movement. |
| What role did MUCKRAKERS play during the PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT? | The muckrakers exposed the problems that urbanization and industrialization had caused such as disease, overcrowding, sanitation, bad working conditions, unsanitary working conditions in factories, homelessness, overcrowding |
| What specific problems did UPTON SINCLAIR attack in his novel THE JUNGLE? | Unsanitary conditions in meatpacking industry, working conditions in meatpacking industry and the rights of immigrants |
| What legislation was passed in response to Sinclair's book? | The Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) |
| Identify 2 POLITICAL CHANGES brought about by the PROGRESSIVE movement. | Federal Trade Commission, Federal Reserve System, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Federal Meat Inspection Act, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments |
| What was the MAIN obstacle workers faced when forming unions? | Industry opposed unions; management used tactics to keep from organizing; political/social opposition--no right to organize, associated with revolution and anarchy. |
| How did YELLOW JOURNALISM spark the Spanish-American War? | Journalists reported dramatic stories of Spanish atrocities in 2 major American newspapers which stirred up the American people against the Spanish. When the USS MAINE was blown up, the yjournalists "exaggerated" the story and the American people were rea |
| What advantage did the Panama Canal provide to trade and shipping? | To connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It would save time and money for both commercial and military shipping. |
| Explain 3 examples of American imperialism/expansionism during the early 1900's. | Acquiring Puerto Rico and Guam; b.Acquiring the Philippines; c. Annexing Hawaii; d. Acquisition of Panama Canal Zone; e.Protectorate--Cuba |
| Describe Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" policy. | Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Negotiate peacefully, simultaneously threatening with a "big stick" (the military). Teddy used it with strikes and with foreign policy. |
| What specific even led to US involvement in WWI? | Germany's sinking of US supply ships (merchant ships) |
| What event triggered the beginning of WWI in Europe? | The assasination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. |
| What agency was in charge of "selling" the war to the American people in WWI? | Committee on Public Information |
| What foreign policy led the US to remain neutral at the beginning of WWI? | The Monroe Doctrine (earlier) and The Roosevelt Corollary (1904) |
| Why did the US refuse to sign the Treaty of Versailles after WWI? | They feared that the League of Nations might supercede (go above) the power of Congress to declare war and force the US to fight many foreign conflicts. |
| SUMMARIZE the main goal of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points. | a. End to secret diplomacy b.Freedom of the seas c.Freedom of open trade d.Reduction of armaments e.Consideration for native populations f.Proposal for a League of Nations |
| THESE ARE POSSIBLE ESSAY TOPICS: I will run them off separately as they don't fit into flash card form. |
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